Surprised they didn’t opt for Typescript. Then again, it’s a tweet - looking forward to a longer blog post with technical details when they’re willing to talk about it more.
Javascript can still mean that Typescript is used.
Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
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#32Office for Windows (WIN32) will be an Electron app? I have no words. edit, since there seems to be some confusion: I am explicitly talking about the WIN32 variant, which he confirmed to be based on Electron.
This isn't Office for Windows the suite. WIN32 is a platform they're not really supporting any more, I think they're basically saying if you're on WIN32 then you're getting the web version in future, not the real deal.
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#33This is good news for those of us who have to deal with VSTO, MSI packaging and all that cack. At last it might not feel like being buggered by a traffic cone repeatedly.
The ideal of an IT dept is to force all of their users to use only a locked down ipad. Of course they won't be able to achieve any work on them, and productivity will go down the drain, but that's not the problem of the IT department.
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#34This is a joke right?
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#35Surprised they didn’t opt for Typescript. Then again, it’s a tweet - looking forward to a longer blog post with technical details when they’re willing to talk about it more.
Or most likely WebAssembler...
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#36Are they trying to give hardware sales a nudge by writing everything as inefficiently as possible?
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#37Seems like a very strange move... But it’s a tweet. Might not mean anything really.
My first thought was an April fool joke that got lost in a queue or as a result of a bad network connection...
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#38Office for Windows (WIN32) will be an Electron app? I have no words. edit, since there seems to be some confusion: I am explicitly talking about the WIN32 variant, which he confirmed to be based on Electron.
Not an electron app https://mobile.twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/100677077815354...
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#39So of all the good, far more suitable languages they could use, we're getting it written the flaming pile of trash that is JavaScript? Why though?
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#40FWIW, I personally like the direction Microsoft is going in. I look forward to seeing where this transformation leads.
The positive side of breaking compatibility with all legacy technologies (COM, VBA, XLL, etc) that currently force large companies to stick to MS Office is that it has the potential to reintroduce competition in the office-like software space. And in my opinion Office is the main reason why large enterprises stick to Windows. Most internal apps are moving to the web. If office backward compatibility goes away, then it's not clear that Windows is an obvious choice anymore.
And it is kind of consistent with Microsoft's new strategy to de-emphasize Windows.