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It is free? MS released their main product for free? Unbelievable. Their must be some catch here or I am missing something, either functional restrictions or bu
by iamshs 13y ago
It is free? MS released their main product for free? Unbelievable. Their must be some catch here or I am missing something, either functional restrictions or buying a skydrive account. Well, looking forward to trying this out. Potential to be big in academic environments, especially with formatting fidelity.
- Encosia 13y agoThe online Office apps have been free for quite a while. At least a year now, if not more.
- sz4kerto 13y ago> functional restrictions The online Office suite has much less functionality compared to desktop versions. The most loyal Office users are not the people who write 2 page long documents. For example think of a bank who has completely customized Excel so it displays real-time market data. Now that's where you _need_ the full suite.
- iamshs 13y agoWill try it out to see what is missing and if it is suitable for my use case.
- blackoil 13y agoIt was always free, these are just webapps not the desktop Office 365 which is their main product. But it competes favorably against google docs.
- nailer 13y agoRecent features it got were 'the ability to edit footnotes'. Its tablet functionality, when last checked, tried to download an .exe file onto Silverlight. Office 365 does not compete at all against Google docs.
- nailer 13y ago... 'an .exe file onto an iPad', ahem.
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