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Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps

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Re: Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps

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Post by tpm »

smakt wrote: post #8

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> I don't think that, as a species, we are as smart as we think we are

We are plenty smart, but fail to coordinate effectively. Some people are able to exploit this for their selfish gains and as a result the whole humanity suffers. See also the racism you just deployed for no good reason.

Re: Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps

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Post by cprecioso »

m-p-3 wrote: post #2

It's also the default method used by Intune in the backend to deploy it on Windows systems. At least they give the ability to be really specific about what you want to deploy using the Configuration XML file. I wish they offered something similar on macOS.

You can get individual app installers at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-histo... and more at https://mofa.cocolabs.dev/standalone_apps/standalone_current...

Re: Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps

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Post by 4rt »

the installation story for devs writing windows apps has been dreadful for 3 decades.

vs used to help you build setup.exe, which was always a huge chore to use.

clickonce was launched to replace all this with hosted manifests and auto-updates and modern features like that, and immediately forgotten about because it was so broken. nobody ever used it.

then they brought out WinUI and the windows store, which was so overly sandboxed that it didn't fit most use cases and the permissions system of the store never seemed to line up with the APIs themselves.

then they tried their best to destroy myget by launching winget, which got forgotten about again. now even MS doesnt use their own store.

Re: Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps

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Post by generic92034 »

pjerem wrote: post #5
nailer wrote: post #3

I’ve read the article and still don’t know why.

Because it’s easier for the few devs of one of the richest company of the world to manage only one delivery method.

But now with AI help they should be twice as productive and have all time in the world for extra work, right?

/s

Re: Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps

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Post by lionkor »

nalekberov wrote: post #17

Seriously who needs a Store App on a desktop OS? The process should be as simple as visiting app’s website, optionally paying, and installing. No middle man, hence less point of breakage.

Well, the rest of the world (outside of MacOS and Windows) settled on repositories and package managers, with hash verification, versioning, updating/installing/uninstalling with composable commands (that can also be used via GUIs), etc.

Use Fedora for half a year and tell me what you prefer.

Re: Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps

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Post by 7bit »

4rt wrote: post #14

the installation story for devs writing windows apps has been dreadful for 3 decades. vs used to help you build setup.exe, which was always a huge chore to use. clickonce was launched to replace all this with hosted manifests and auto-updates and modern features like that, and immediately forgotten about because it was so broken. nobody ever used it. then they brought out WinUI and the windows store, which was so ove…

Anecdotally, yesterday I launched the Windows sandbox to investigate some files and noticed that notepad.exe was not available. A quick research revealed that this is because notepad.exe was replaced by the modern variant with Colipot and shit, which is an AppX package (Windows Store file format). And since the store was ripped out of the sandbox, there's no Notepad in it.

I'm not sure I would say Microsoft forgot about the store. I think Microsoft is like a Dog that has no head, no legs, only tails. And these tails have their own will and don't care about the dog in the slightest.

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