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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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You're using cloud based storage. That's not the same as having the entire application in the cloud...
This is a completely disingenuous argument.
A server/client solution is absolutely not offline. You need a connection to save your doc, I mean please.
I'm not sure if people are purposefully being ignorant, but this shit is crazy...
There's a serious difference between having an entire application in a cloud environment (office365) and an entire application on your local PC (office) with the inability to save locally... That's not a server/client setup.
For the life of me I cannot understand why everyone here is being seemingly as disingenuous as possible. It's honestly fucked up.
How is that different from the Office 365 installation I have at work? Other than the fact that it can actually operate entirely offline for a significant time, unlike what the article describes?
Or did you redefine O365 to only mean the web version?