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It was always free, these are just webapps not the desktop Office 365 which is their main product. But it competes favorably against google docs.
Recent features it got were 'the ability to edit footnotes'. Its tablet functionality, when last checked, tried to download an .exe file onto Silverlight. Office 365 does not compete at all against Google docs.
7 years after Google Docs. What am I missing?
Your right, and don't get me started on Google staring a search engine 4 years after Lycos and Go.com. I mean what's the point.
What am I missing?
Even though I think your trolling I'll bite and give you an honest answer.
There are a few reasons:
1) Google Docs isn't that good. 2) clients want a desktop office suite with the option for a web based office suite to do light work when not at their main machine. 3) people who use the online apps are a click away from downloading and buying the desktop version of office 4) its training non paying customers to use office for when they need a more powerful office suite.
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> I'll reconsider office 1.) when it is free 2.) when it works seamlessly on a Mac. So, for the past year or two? https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/myoffice.aspx The free online Office apps work great in Chrome on both Windows and Mac (not sure about Linux).
Office for Mac. For free online apps I've got Google Docs. Last one I paid for was Office 08 for Mac and it was quite buggy.