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.
Lel
“What the hell takes 2.24GB for something that runs out of the cloud??”
Yep, it doesn’t add up at all. Annnnd this is why I’m done with MS. They just keep bloating stuff up. Every time I upgraded my hardware MS came along and stole all the new room and speed resources I had just acquired.
My wife’s Win 10 is slower than my old 286 with DOS was.
It doesn't "run out of the cloud." It's a local application that validates the license over the Internet. It will run with all of its features on a machine with no Internet connection, at least for a while (I think it has to check in with the mothership every 30 days or so).
Software as a subscription service has its pluses and minuses. In a corporate environment, it's a lot easier to make sure everyone stays on the same version, and it's a lot easier than managing licenses separately on hundreds of PCs. The total cost is about the same as if you bought the stand-alone version of every upgrade (which most users and companies didn't, which is why the subscription model is good for the publisher).
I don't see that genie going back into the bottle. Adobe isn't offering stand-alone versions of its Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) or "Document Cloud" (Acrobat Pro) any more. At least for now, it's limited to apps that have a more-or-less monopoly in their segment, but I expect to see more of it.