Microsoft's new Office app is live for all Windows 10 users

CNet ^ | Feb 21, 2019 | Shelby Brown

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More on the new Office app... for Windows 10.

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New Office App for Windows 10 ... PING!

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

[Lazamataz]

Microsoft's new Office app is available now for all Windows 10 users, Microsoft announced in a blog post Wednesday.

Dirty bloggers.

[FES0844]

My window 7 won’t let me on internet. All this is a Greek to me.

[cuban leaf]

So, I have office 365 and windows 10. Do I need to do anything?

[SC DOC]

Two words:

Open Office

[jeffc]

Ha ha! I remember those days when Windows and Office came on 3.5” diskettes. Loading them onto one machine at a time was fun (ha!). When disk one finished on one machine you grabbed it and ran to load onto the next one. Musical chairs! Those were the days....

[pt17]

Open Office works just fine for me.

[Calvin Locke]

I was over at my mother’s last night, editing an existing RTF for her, and I thought it was the separately yearly licensed app, and closed it.

I was expecting Wordpad.

I mostly use LibreOffice, my self.

Though for envelopes, it’s Word97 on an old XP machine.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Two words:

Open Office

Two More:

Libre Office

Which was forked from Open Office some years ago.

[rockrr]

I recently uncovered a box of IDE HDD’s. I didn’t know what was on them and didn’t want to toss them as-is. So I resurrected a 30-year old PC so that I could read the drives and recover any data.

It ended up being an entire day job, remembering jumper settings and BIOS options. In the end it turned out that Windows 98 couldn’t “see” several of the drives. So I had to update. The machine wouldn’t support anything newer than Win-XP. Fortunately I could load it from CD and didn’t have to do so from diskette.

Post Script: I did find some old photos that my father had scanned so it was all worth it!

[upchuck]

Why go through all this when Open Office and Libre Office are available for free?

I’m an old MS Office freak, been using it for years. Got really pissed at the “ribbon” interface. Went back to Office 2003, the last release before the ribbon.

Last fall I tried Libre Office and like it real well. There are some inconsistencies with Office but easy to get around.

Haven’t tried Open Office but since Libre Office is an offshoot of Open Office I imagine the dissimilarities are few.

[Don W]

I can’t go to CNet anymore. I am tired of spending half a day removing all the crud, crap and bloatware that comes with every visit.

[dayglored]

> So, I have office 365 and windows 10. Do I need to do anything?

I don't think so, as the new app will come in with the Win10 update.

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> I remember those days when Windows and Office came on 3.5” diskettes...

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> Why go through all this when Open Office and Libre Office are available for free?

I use LibreOffice on my Linux boxes, and am quite happy overall, despite the relatively minor incompatibilities with true MS-Office.

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> I can’t go to CNet anymore. I am tired of spending half a day removing all the crud, crap and bloatware that comes with every visit.

Yeah, I normally try to copy out the source of the article pages so that the embedded links come with it, but wasn't able to do that with the CNet page.

FWIW, the text-only stuff I posted was complete, other than the links.

[Bob434]

[[Ha ha! I remember those days when Windows and Office came on 3.5” diskettes.]]

Lol i never had 3.1 but my neighbor did- he loved loading it lol-

[Bob434]

run a virtual machine- don’t save anything when you shut down- no worries-

[bitt]

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