Do you think Microsoft will ever release Office for Linux? If I’m not mistaken, Microsoft has released a Linux distribution, so it’s reasonable to believe that they might do so. #microsoft #office #microsoftoffice #azure @linux

  • ShimitarA
    4·
    12 hours ago

    No for several reasons

    First of all, office is written in a codebase as old as windows XP itself and it’s impossible to port to anything. Wine is a thing, but that would always be a second class port and not on par with native office

    Second, any effort seems to go toward the online office version, and I am pretty sure online only office 365 will be a reality one day, so Microsoft would not waste resources in a port to linux natively.

    And last, user base would not justify the business case. Interest for existing Linux users would be pretty small (libre/open offices do exist, natively for Linux, and are of excellent quality today) and an official office for Linux would not cause business users to migrate over anyway.

  • unmagical@lemmy.mlItaliano
    2·
    16 hours ago

    Their Linux distro is not for general day to day use, it’s intended for cloud dev ops. I wouldn’t count on that as an example of them being Linux friendly in general. MS Edge on the other hand …

  • banause@feddit.org
    1·
    15 hours ago

    I honestly never got why they even make the effort of “Windows” in general. I would have just made some major version a Linux distribution (probably 8.1?).

    That means I don’t think they will but I don’t know why.

  • BigDawgOClock@lemmy.mlItaliano
    1·
    15 hours ago

    I think so. They’ll see it as a cash grab opportunity, seeing as to how many people are leaving Microsoft for Linux, but they’ll then reverse course as soon as they realize Linux users don’t care for their proprietary software (that costs way too much imo) and have other, very viable, options.

    Libre Office can handle what most users will throw at it.