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posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 27 2017, @11:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the shouldn't-this-create-a-pocket-universe dept.

Microsoft Office now available on all Chromebooks

Microsoft has been testing out its Office apps on Chromebooks for the past year, but they've been mainly limited to Google's latest PixelBook device. It now appears that testing has concluded, and a number of Chromebooks are now reliably seeing the Office apps in the Google Play Store for Chromebooks. Chrome Unboxed reports that the apps are showing up on Samsung's Chromebook Pro, Acer's Chromebook 15, and Acer's C771.

The apps are Android versions of Office which include the same features you'd find on an Android tablet running Office. Devices like Asus' Chromebook Flip (with a 10.1-inch display) will get free access to Office on Chrome OS, but larger devices will need a subscription. Microsoft has a rule across Windows, iOS, and Android hardware that means devices larger than 10.1 inches need an Office 365 subscription to unlock the ability to create, edit, or print documents.

Also at Engadget.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday November 28 2017, @09:26PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 28 2017, @09:26PM (#602673) Journal

    When I was young, it was uphill both ways, and in plain ASCII, no GUI.

    You had to memorize a stack of manuals -- that couldn't be removed from the computer room because they were bolted (literally) to the table. Young people learned to type properly, otherwise you would have to DUP the card you were punching up to the column where you made the mistake. There was no backspace -- the hole is punched into the card and can't be un-punched. And stand up straight. Pay attention. Don't drop your deck of cards on the floor -- that's a real mess to sort out.

    back in my day, I didn't need to connect to any tubes just to run office

    But you had to let the tubes warm up first.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 28 2017, @11:16PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday November 28 2017, @11:16PM (#602739) Homepage Journal

    Our Cobol instructor at Solano Community College advised us to use a felt-tip pen to draw a diagonal line across one end of our decks.

    But replacing some buggy code totally dephlogisticated my deck's Feng Shui.

    By the time I turned in the line printer hardcopies of my code and its output, there were dozens of diagonal lines in all manner of different colors.

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