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  • Is Microsoft Winding Down Development Of Office?

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Wed Jan 7 06:51:41 2026
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    Worth noting that the last version of Microsoft Office came out in
    2024. In that time, LibreOffice has gone from version 24.8 to 25.8 <https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/>.

    Wonder what Microsoft has been doing in the meantime? Of course it has
    been pouring most of its development efforts into Microsoft 365, which
    is the cloud version that also supports Linux.

    So really, Microsoft is pivoting away from making its most important
    piece of application software Windows-only.

    That, too, is a hint as to the future of Microsoft Windows ...
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Wed Jan 7 09:51:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-01-07 01:51, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    Worth noting that the last version of Microsoft Office came out in
    2024. In that time, LibreOffice has gone from version 24.8 to 25.8 <https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/>.

    Wonder what Microsoft has been doing in the meantime? Of course it has
    been pouring most of its development efforts into Microsoft 365, which
    is the cloud version that also supports Linux.

    So really, Microsoft is pivoting away from making its most important
    piece of application software Windows-only.

    That, too, is a hint as to the future of Microsoft Windows ...

    It should be noted that there is a significant difference between the
    online Microsoft 365 applications and the ones installed on your
    computer. Nevertheless, the online tools are good enough for most and
    exist solely to compete with Google Docs which is also good enough for
    most. In other words, the desktop tools are obviously much more
    advanced, but they are unnecessary, so crying that Linux doesn't support Microsoft Office is pointless.
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    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
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