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Is Wine ever going to be able to run the current version of Microsoft Office? This is the main app keeping people in Windows.

• bigyabai 9mo ago
  The "current" version is a cloud-encumbered MS365 product with Copilot+ integration, so probably not. That being said, apparently the 2016 version is gold-rated on WineHQ: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=10 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...
  • venusenvy47 9mo ago
    Our company just deployed Office 2024, which is not cloud-based. There are plenty of companies that can't/won't use the cloud version.
    • hedora 9mo ago
      They said “cloud encumbered” not cloud based. Do you have a version that doesn’t prompt users to use cloud services, and also does not attempt to make outgoing network calls? I jumped off the MS train about ten years ago, but the office they shipped back then was already cloud encumbered.
  • accrual 9mo ago
    I find Office 2016 feels rather similar to current Office 365 as well. For home office stuff I'd never notice the difference.
  • Ballas 9mo ago
    That gold rating was last tested with wine 5.0 in 2020. I have tried many times to install Office 2016 after that, and failed because Microsoft keeps changing their login/activation front-end. The last time the issue was with some Edge-dependency. For a while it was possible to get it working with Crossover, and then it broke again. Currently I'm using WinApps for the infrequent project that requires MS Office. That said, I haven't tried Office on wine in the last 2 years, and there have a lot of development in that time...