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
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
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.
@Shimitar I guess you’re right even though Office is more powerful than Libre office unfortunately. PowerPoint is a really powerful or maybe Libre Office is too complex