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Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by cpmsmith »

excalibur wrote: post #8
ghshephard wrote: post #2

The million (10 million? 100 Million) dollar question that I haven't seen addressed yet (but I'm sure will be, if it hasn't already) - is what % cut Apple is getting from the subscription revenue.

> Users can also purchase a subscription for Office 365 from within the apps, so they can get up and running instantly. This would tend to suggest that Apple isn't getting a cut. Normally when they take one, it's on the basis of funds being transferred via their store, which doesn't appear to be the case here. But this is a massive deal between two of the ecosystem's biggest fish, and I'm sure an arrangement has been…

They take a cut of in-app purchases/subscriptions as well, for apps distributed via the store. That's not to say there isn't likely a special deal in place, though.

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by freehunter »

Tomte wrote: post #7
freehunter wrote: post #3

Is this the mobile version of the apps, a wrapper around the web version of the apps, or actual full-fledged desktop Office?

Desktop Office. Microsoft has been offering a "real office" on Mac for many, many years now. The news is not that Office is on Mac, it's that it is distributed through the App Store.

I knew they've had full Office since forever. I just didn't know if the App Store version itself was full Office or a mobile/web Office like on the iOS App Store.

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by rpeden »

Tomte wrote: post #7
freehunter wrote: post #3

Is this the mobile version of the apps, a wrapper around the web version of the apps, or actual full-fledged desktop Office?

Desktop Office. Microsoft has been offering a "real office" on Mac for many, many years now. The news is not that Office is on Mac, it's that it is distributed through the App Store.

There were even Mac versions of Word and Excel years before either of them were available for Windows.

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

#14

Post by eridius »

excalibur wrote: post #8
ghshephard wrote: post #2

The million (10 million? 100 Million) dollar question that I haven't seen addressed yet (but I'm sure will be, if it hasn't already) - is what % cut Apple is getting from the subscription revenue.

> Users can also purchase a subscription for Office 365 from within the apps, so they can get up and running instantly. This would tend to suggest that Apple isn't getting a cut. Normally when they take one, it's on the basis of funds being transferred via their store, which doesn't appear to be the case here. But this is a massive deal between two of the ecosystem's biggest fish, and I'm sure an arrangement has been…

Apps distributed on the Mac App Store can use platform-provided APIs to do IAPs, including subscriptions, just like on iOS.

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by kevindqc »

Tomte wrote: post #7
freehunter wrote: post #3

Is this the mobile version of the apps, a wrapper around the web version of the apps, or actual full-fledged desktop Office?

Desktop Office. Microsoft has been offering a "real office" on Mac for many, many years now. The news is not that Office is on Mac, it's that it is distributed through the App Store.

It's recent that it's the "same" Office though, no? It used to have different codebase (with, I'm sure, some reused code) and even had different release versions (ie: Office 2011 on Mac VS Office 2010/2013 on Windows)

I dug a bit and I found this article[1] that says it's now using a common codebase for Office 2016 since January last year, so I guess it's not something new with this new release of Office 365 on mac.

1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-aligns-its-different...

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by [deleted] »

Tomte wrote: post #7
freehunter wrote: post #3

Is this the mobile version of the apps, a wrapper around the web version of the apps, or actual full-fledged desktop Office?

Desktop Office. Microsoft has been offering a "real office" on Mac for many, many years now. The news is not that Office is on Mac, it's that it is distributed through the App Store.

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Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by erichurkman »

kevindqc wrote: post #15
Tomte wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Desktop Office. Microsoft has been offering a "real office" on Mac for many, many years now. The news is not that Office is on Mac, it's that it is distributed through the App Store.

It's recent that it's the "same" Office though, no? It used to have different codebase (with, I'm sure, some reused code) and even had different release versions (ie: Office 2011 on Mac VS Office 2010/2013 on Windows) I dug a bit and I found this article[1] that says it's now using a common codebase for Office 2016 since January last year, so I guess it's not something new with this new release of Office 365 on mac.…

The quality on Mac is nowhere near the quality of Office on Windows. At least Excel. Slow, crashes, tons of missing shortcuts, etc.

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by phs318u »

freehunter wrote: post #12
Tomte wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Desktop Office. Microsoft has been offering a "real office" on Mac for many, many years now. The news is not that Office is on Mac, it's that it is distributed through the App Store.

I knew they've had full Office since forever. I just didn't know if the App Store version itself was full Office or a mobile/web Office like on the iOS App Store.

According to this post [0], Microsoft use a "shared Office codebase for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android". Before the individual iOS Office apps, Microsoft had an "Office mobile" app which may well have been a web app (though I can't find anything on that either way).

[0] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/Share...

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