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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] 26 points 4 days ago

It's not disingenuous. There's multiple definitions of "offline" being used here, and just because some people aren't using yours doesn't mean they're ignorant or arguing in bad faith.

Your definition of "offline" is encompassing just the executable code. So under that definition, sure, it's offline. But I wouldn't call an application "offline" if it requires an internet connection for any core feature of the application. And I call saving my document a core feature of a word processor. Since I wouldn't call it "offline" I'm not sure what I would call it, but something closer to "local" or "native" to distinguish it from a cloud based application with a browser or other frontend.