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Microsoft quietly released a free offline version of Office, but you're not going to like it (www.xda-developers.com)

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It has ads and doesn't support saving documents locally

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Being able to launch it locally if you can't save open or locally seems extremely pointless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Their desktop version of office has more features than the cloud web versions so this doesn't sound that bad. Also might mean the O365 small business license might be able to use a desktop client now instead of being web only.