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> Nothing improved for me as a consumer Nothing to install, no updates, no license key, not tied to a machine.... ?

• coldtea 10y ago
  >Nothing to install Modern app stores like the Mac App Store make installing an one click affair. It will take me more clicks to login to their Word website... Also, "nothing to install" means "nothing to own". >no updates There will still be updates, only I won't be controlling them, and I wont be able to stick with an older version. Besides, it has been ages since updates for apps have been totally painless (e.g. with something like the Mac App Store, or a framework like Sparkle). >no license key Yes, but a password. And presumably a subscription, and my access to this "WebAssembly-based Office" lost when I can't fork out the money for a few months. (Also no piracy option for the developing world anymore). >not tied to a machine.... I can have that with regular software not running on a browser. I can use Reason e.g. (a native application) on any machine I care to install it with their over-the-internet verification.
  • robotresearcher 10y ago
    None of these things are true about MS Office (native - not online 365) right now, which was the specific subject this sub-thread.
    • coldtea 10y ago
      You seem to have totally missed what the "specific subject of this sub-thread is". A quick reminder from just the parent comment above to which we're answering: "Imagine MS Word is running in your browser without them having to rewrite it in JS!". That is, we're not talking about the native MS Office "right now".
      • robotresearcher 10y ago
        > Nothing improved for me as a consumer Improved with respect to what, then, if not the current "right now" Office?