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> And after all how did suddenly all desktop apps become obsolete? Well, they are not. Which is one reason we don't need Microsoft's Office365 offer at all? I
by southerntofu 5y ago
> And after all how did suddenly all desktop apps become obsolete? Well, they are not.
Which is one reason we don't need Microsoft's Office365 offer at all? I mean, especially in the case of big governments/orgs where they operate an entire fleet of machines, providing good desktop software would be a much better experience than crappy webapps.
Unless of course the goal is real-time collaboration, in which case that's an entirely different use-case and i have no idea how google/microsoft tools fare in this space (but Hedgedoc/Cryptpad are solid).
- larodi 5y agoIMHO your statement holds good ground. perhaps not so many people need web version. still - OFfice365 is about integration with Azure, not only the web client, which... eventually will be replaced from its current from with something that builds on top of wasm/canvas (bet 5$ on it). The real-time collaboration is vastly overrated mostly, and thanks to Google's marketing. How many times have anyone had to do a real-time edit of document. How many times it was crucial for the process. And how is this better than git push/pulls? Well, there are some 5% of all cases where real-time collaboration on a document is good to have, but 95% of all times is reasonably OK to share a screen and have few people stand right by the side of s.o. performing actions.