[dayglored]

Apple Mac users have been able to download and run a version of Microsoft Office for Mac, but until now you had to visit and negotiate Microsoft's site to do it, which is not the way it's supposed to be (according to Apple). So now it's available from the Mac App Store and all is well with the world.

Wait... what?? No Clippy?!?

[dayglored]

MS Office for Mac on the Mac App Store ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[dayglored]

*PING*

[dayglored]

The ever-helpful Clippy...

[dayglored]

So I just now downloaded MS Word from the Mac App Store. It was free! FREE??

It took an ungodly amount of time, and when it was done the installed application was... 2.24GB. So, okay, it MUST be a stand-alone copy of MS-Word. Woo-hoo!.... They probably charge me for the license when I start it up. Okay.

But when I launched it, I learned that it is "READ-ONLY" until you sign up for an Office 365 subscription. So much for the idea that it's a stand-alone copy of MS-Word (which I'd be entirely willing to pay for!).

What the hell takes 2.24GB for something that runs out of the cloud??

*SIGH*

I should have known. Well, okay, I don't want Office 365, so I've got a 2.24GB Word Reader.

Back to LibreOffice.

[libh8er]

In the age of Google docs who even uses MS Office any more ?

[Seruzawa]

Word? Never. OpenOffice all the way.

[FourtySeven]

I miss Clippy and all those animated companions. They made it feel a bit less lonely while working on a paper due the next day.

Remember the Wizard one? He was my favorite. I think he was only part of Windows2000 packages though I never saw him after that.

[ReignOfError]

I wonder if I need to uninstall O365 before installing it from the App Store. I do like the idea of rolling its updates in with the rest of the App Store updates, because Microsoft’s updater is craptactular.

Anticipating the comments, I use Office because my clients use it, and someone else pays for it. I use iWork when I have the choice.

[BradyLS]

Mac users at work have been using Office 365 for over a year. The PC users are just now making the switch from Office 2013.