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It is still beyond me why a common tool as a word processor needs to be an always online web-app. It doesn't, and Word works fine entirely offline. If you wan
by onion2k 3y ago
It is still beyond me why a common tool as a word processor needs to be an always online web-app.
It doesn't, and Word works fine entirely offline.
If you want live collaboration on a document, or integration with AI, or if you want your employees not to have Word installed because that requires an IT department to manage at scale instead of running the app in a browser, then you need a network connection.
- torginus 3y ago> If you want live collaboration on a document, I have never wanted that ever. There are wikis with markdown for that. > Integration with AI AI still creeps me out to this day. Why would I want Microsoft to ingest my documents to train their next gen AI blackbox on it? Besides, the only thing AI can do is take the information the document has, and say it with more words. > if you want your employees not to have Word installed Got it, package management is still busted, and MS is disincentivised from fixing it.