• That “new” Office app? There’s less – and more – than meets the eye

    Posted on December 19, 2018 at 11:23 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Microsoft blogland is abuzz with news about a new! improved! Office app for Windows 10 called, doh, Office.

    MS 365 VP Jared Spataro just posted:

    Last year, we updated Office.com with a new experience focused on two simple things: helping users get the most out of Office and getting them back into their work quickly. The streamlined site has clearly resonated with customers, and now more than 40 percent of Office 365 web users start their work by visiting Office.com.

    Starting today, we’re bringing this experience to Windows 10 in the form of an app, simply called Office. It’s now available to Windows Insiders (Fast) and will roll out to all Windows 10 users soon. The app itself is free and it can be used with any Office 365 subscription, Office 2019, Office 2016, or Office Online—the free web-based version of Office for consumers.

    The announcement goes on to say that you’ll be able to use this new app to, basically, do everything you can do right now pretty easily with OneDrive and the Office.com portal.

    But there’s one thing the announcement doesn’t mention. Mary Jo Foley explains that this new Office (there must be two dozen things running around called “Office”) is, in fact, a Progressive Web App. Which is pretty cool. Not a UWP (“Metro” “Windows Store”) app, but a real, live presumably working PWA.

    The future is coming fast.

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