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Re:.NET 5 by scarface74 on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:50PM (#19841922)
Linux as it exists today on the desktop is still a headache. If anything, if office were ported to Chrome OS, that would be a real alternative.
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Re:.NET 5 by petecox on Monday May 06, 2019 @10:54PM (#19846018)
Office already runs on Chromebooks via Google Play within the Android container [0]. Is it then worth MS' time and energy to port the browser interface as a Chrome OS 'native' app?

[0] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/how-to-install-and-...

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Re:.NET 5 by tracker1 on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:24PM (#19844539)
o365's web interface is pretty much what you're asking for. It's a rent based model, but so are the desktop apps at this point (mostly). It wouldn't really surprise me to see an electron wrapper around o365 UI for a future release to unify the applications more.

The only part of "Office" I really even use though is Outlook (at work), and it's pretty good at the job it does.

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