And yet, for the typical office user, it supports most or all of the stuff they are going to do. It's also fast, reliable, it renders Office files correctly, and the UI matches what people are familiar with.
All told, it's pretty good.
I'm not sure if the typical office user is the same as the casual office user.
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
by Cactus2018 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:39PM
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>You are in for a surprise.
Here's another Office 365 Web surprise. Last week we had 5 team members working in a shared Word document with track-changes; A) There is no "view final markup" option, and B) after a while the web-app crawled to a halt.
We've had some bugs with loss of recent modifications to some spreadsheets when several users modify it collaboratively (Google Sheets-style). It sucks, unfortunately.
I’m confused. Doesn’t Microsoft 365 include the desktop versions of the product and the ability to update them?
Yes, but I believe that the parent was talking about the web versions, since the comparison was made against Google Suite.
You have all collaboration features with the desktop version.
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
by gamblor956 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:57PM
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If you need power features, you should be using the desktop version...
The web version is intended for basic/common use cases, not power user functions.
You are in for a surprise. Office 365 (at least Excel and Word) looks like a toy compared to the desktop versions. I'm not talking about niche features or VBA, I'm talking about things like naming a table, which is explicitly only supported in the desktop version. Ah, of course! You need the table's name to use it in their Power Automate platform. Microsoft 365 is a mess right now. I hope it improves.