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I would have hated that, it looks like one thing (a standalone exe) but it is doing something else (installer like).
Non technical users don‘t understand any of this.
Which is even more of a problem.
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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>Use Fedora for half a year and tell me what you prefer. I prefer good high-dpi support, Wifi and Bluetooth that works, usability, developers getting rewarded for their hard work, etc.
I'm legitimately not sure what you're saying. Are you saying Linux, Windows, or MacOS? Because as far as Bt and Wifi go, usability, rewarding developers, that applies to Linux and MacOS and ... not Windows whatsoever. I'm not sure about High DPI support, probably sucks on X11, maybe on Wayland, so I'm guessing you mean Windows? FYI I develop software for Linux in my free time, I don't get paid and I feel pretty rewar…
>I'm legitimately not sure what you're saying.
I'm saying Linux is a mediocre desktop operating system, especially on laptops.
Re: Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps
#73It'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...
That's what I ended up using, in order to avoid repackaging the installer I built a payloadless deployment (dummy/empty .pkg, unsigned as it doesn't matter if it fails to run, followed by a post-install script that downloads the latest installer for each software to deploy, install them, then delete the temporary folder.