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Microsoft quietly released a free offline version of Office, but you're not going to like it
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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Wait a second, if you have to save it to onedrive, and have the onedrive app on your pc, it then will sync to your local storage if the onedrive settings are set to "make all folders available offline" automatically, or did i take crazy pills this morning and am missing something?
that's the hook. they are mandating having and using onedrive cloud storage, and having its requisite microsoft account, in order to use this 'free' application.
OneDrive comes with 5GB free storage, if you want to use the app, you gotta sign up for the MS account, no different than litteraly a million other apps out there. Might rub the anti Microsoft folks the wrong way, but if you read the article, one of the major point is that there's no local storage, which is not true, as the OneDrive app stores everything locally if you set it to.
this 'new' and oh so 'generous' thing....
comes on the heels of killing-off the totally free, previously already installed on every fucking windows pc since version one point oh, no obligation, no online account required, no cloud forced upon you, and good enough for literally millions and millions of people, wordpad.
so no, microsoft does not get a pass here. absolutely not.
ok dude, whatever don't use it, fuck. lol.
Linking Microsoft and allowing them to read into everything you write is a massive privacy hit.
But their target audience is indeed not the privacy-minded folks. It's still an unfortunate precedent of Microsoft mandating the use of OneDrive and injecting ads, which may get worse and even get included in some form in paid products.
That way you can't work around Microsoft getting a copy of your work no matter what.
yep, price of admission, i'm cool with it
just use the better libre office. you dont need to pay a price of admission at all. so silly. "i take pot hole ridden toll roads instead of the tax paid ones, because that's just the price of admission yaknow." ???