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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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[–] mp3 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Would you say that your game can be played entirely locally of you can't save your game while offline?

I cannot fathom even using a software that ties a critical feature such as the ability of saving your work to an Internet connection.

At that point, if your software relies on the Internet to accomplish an important task, it doesn't matter if the app is native or runs some code in your browser if some critical features depends on someone else's system to work as expected.