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MS is pushing it's cloud version of Office heavily. I doubt there will be a desktop version by then, and if there is it will not have all the features of the Cl

• maxerickson 5y ago
  There's no way they kill the desktop versions in 5 years. As of right now, the cloud versions don't have all of the features of the desktop versions.
• irjustin 5y ago
  Office365 Online is to compete against GDocs which GDocs has an incredible feature set for light/basic users. But, cloud Office is absolutely abysmal if you get away from the core line features or need to do anything semi-difficult. Online Word fails to faithfully reproduce complex layouts. Dealing with asian languages results in weird font inconsistencies as well as layout errors. Online Excel also fails in non-ASCII text. Complex Excel books that are already slow are even slower online. Of course, you can't access local resources if any book reaches outwards like that.
• retrac 5y ago
  The cloud cannot replace Office for contexts where the data is not allowed in the cloud. Physical custody of data remains a hard requirement for quite a few sectors. So does offline operation. It's difficult to imagine Microsoft simply writing off entire government departments around the world that are current customers. I wouldn't be too surprised if it still all moves to subscription pricing though.