Microsoft's New Office App for Windows 10 is Coming To All Office Users For Free

Microsoft has been looking for ways to simplify the way users log into Office and find their documents via its Office.com portal. On December 19, the company is taking another step in this area by introducing something it's calling simply the Office app for Windows 10. ZDNet: This new Office app is the successor to the existing "My Office" app that's already available to Windows users. Starting today, Windows Insider testers in the Fast ring can download this new app to test it and it will roll out to all Windows 10 users "soon," officials said. My Office allows users to find and install all their Office 356 subscription-related components from a single place. It allows users to view and edit their recent documents, find tips, see their subscription benefits and more. The coming free Office for Windows 10 app can be used in conjunction with any Office variant -- Office 365 Commercial, Office 365 Consumer, a perpetual version of Office (like Office 2016 and 2019) or the web-based Office Online.

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[Stephen Palbuddy]

The mail app + Outlook.com if it's not in there.

What the F

[110010001000]

What the F is this crap?

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[thebes]

Fox broadcasting, down three and three eighths.

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[zlives]

for when you have disabled telemetry but still want to be tracked.

Can we opt out?

[jfdavis668]

Not really interested in that feature. Is it optional?

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[WCMI92]

You will like it, comrade. Opting out is not in the interests of the party.

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[jellomizer]

Disk Storage is more expensive then your privacy?

More 'cloud' bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

FFS keep your own goddamned documents in your own goddamned computer.
Also delete Windows and install Linux so you're not being spied on constantly and having control of your own hardware subverted.

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[DarkRookie2]

Waiting for 2020 for that. I am giving Proton another year.

Paid advertising, huh?

[BLToday]

It’s an app to manage your subscriptions from Microsoft. It better be free. This is like saying the Steam application is free for download.

Wow... a wholly separate app to purchase office

[the_skywise]

Why not use... Oh I dunno... the MICROSOFT STORE? That POS app that should be the store front for all downloadable windows apps but is next to impossible to use to actually FIND anything (let alone purchase).

Not free

[DarkRookie2]

It is not free. It requires the Store and a MS account.

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[Ashthon]

The app comes bundled with Windows 10, so it doesn't require the Store to download or an MS account. However, if you don't have a subscription to Office 365 or a copy of Office, then the app merely acts as an advertisement for Office and does nothing at all of value. It's just another piece of adware to go with the many other trial apps and promotions that are installed by default in Windows 10.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Sure the files can be deleted. But MS will keep pushing the shit back on every day, just as they do with the other adware bundled with Win10. Eventually they will also start to refuse start of Windows if any of its key components, such as Candy crush, XBox live or Office advertising app, were deleted by user.

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[dkman]

Office 365 already has a page that lets you install these things. The problem is that it doesn't "mix" with regular installs. For instance you absolutely under no condition can install your copy of Visio 2016 after installing the Office 365 Office apps (Word, Excel, Access, etc). So we're stuck using local copies for everything because the Office 365 Visio costs extra.

MS installs do the most asinine things.

Free?

[Sooner Boomer]

Great! I'm running XP and Office 95. Send me my CD!

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[smooth wombat]

At least you're running something stable and quick. Having to wait for software to open on my W10 work machine is downright annoying. *double-click* Wait. Wait. Wait. Processing... Wait. Wait. Wait. Open. Wait. Now we're ready to go.

I just want an Office light.

[jellomizer]

Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
No Web Integration, or collaborative services.
If someone emails me a document I can open it up, edit it, or create a new document and save it. I just want the feature that came in office 2007 (Office 95 actually but I want to open the new file format)

Re:I just want an Office light.

[Gravis Zero]

Sure sounds like you want LibreOffice.

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[jellomizer]

That is why I have. I don't have any problems with it at all. However every once in a while Ill get that document that is formatted oddly. But I think it is mostly to do with poor quality of fonts in Linux compared to windows.

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[mcswell]

Actually, virtually all fonts these days _can_ work on both Windows and Linux (and MacOS). The only issue you're like to find (this is probably what you're referring to) is fonts that are proprietary to a particular operating system. Some Windows fonts are proprietary, although if you're willing to pay for them, some can be bought.

SIL is of course another good provider of high quality fonts for both Latin-based scripts (with better coverage of non-ASCII code points than most other Latin-based fonts) and e

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[dunkelfalke]

More like Microsoft Works.

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[drinkypoo]

How about office 97? That was the last version I remember that wasn't bloated into cruftsville, or was that crufted into bloatsville?

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[dunkelfalke]

Yes, that was nice and is lightning fast on modern hardware. But the OP wanted an office light with a limited amount of applications. Office 97 has more than that, hence my thought about MS Works.

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[mcswell]

"I don't need PowerPoint since I use Godot." I was going to ask you to enlighten me, since I had never heard of Godot for presentations. But gimf.

But if you use TeX, why not use Beamer? Do you need the ability to animate your presentations?

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[mcswell]

There ought to be an after-market in licenses and CDs for Office 2007 (or whatever the last version before the dreaded Ribbon was).

Of course there's LibreOffice...

Well... saw this coming.

[Gravis Zero]

Comment excerpt from "Microsoft Is Readying a Consumer Microsoft 365 Subscription Bundle" [slashdot.org]

The only way this works is if the product is free for the user and they subject you to ads and steal your personal info even more and even then you have to compete with google's office suite.

Looking forward to learning about who they they are selling your info to.

Still too expensive

[saltydogdesign]

Cancer is also free. Doesn't mean I want it.

Libreoffice - It Won't Trap You

[BrendaEM]

it's great software. it's free. It's cross-platform. https://www.libreoffice.org/ [libreoffice.org]

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[Excelcia]

Doesn't run on iPads, iPhones or Android phones or tablets nor is there any web hosted version.

There are viewers for every platform. I have an editor for Android, I've never investigated iPhone, from lack of interest. There are most certainly a web hosted versions for ODF document editing.

We don't want or need MS Office any more.

The world of personal computing is much larger than just desktop applications.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've felt a pressing need to edit an office document on m

Real Microsoft Office

[kurkosdr]

I am always amused by all those "Baby Microsoft Offices" apps that Microsoft puts out online and in various app stores. Everyone using Office knows that there is The Real Microsoft Office (the Windows Desktop app), which is guaranteed to open documents perfectly (macros, animations, binary blobs, scripts and whatnot included), and "Baby Microsoft Offices" which are not guaranteed to do that. And for that reason, most people use The Real Microsoft Office exclusively. BTW I am not in favour of putting junk (l

If users need help logging on and finding files

[CanadianMacFan]

If users need help logging on and finding files and Microsoft is building desktop apps to help them do that then they must be doing something really wrong. I can't say as I've never been on there. I don't have a lot of need for office applications and when I need something done I turn to either the Apple apps (Pages and Numbers) or Libre Office.

Oy Vey

[Joshs922]

Yay! A trendy new free app to help me give all my personal data to someone else so I can start renting it back from them!