Idk if this has been proven, but I’m certain that the current desktop versions of Office apps are just Electron-style wrappers for the web versions. I switched from Windows to Linux about a year ago and have found the web apps to be perfectly sufficient
In my opinion the web apps are better. i work for two companies using their own IT setups; at both, the installed W10 apps suck. They get stuck and lag or struggle to scroll to data im searching etc. The web app always works as expected, assuming your internet is good
I have the opposite experience. In particular, copying/pasting groups of cells in Excel online never works right.
The only reason I use the web apps is for collaborative editing at work. Even though the desktop version is supposed to be the same, it never works. It always says someone has the document locked, even though the files are in Sharepoint and nobody has chosen to lock the file.
If so, they’re pretty good at covering it up. You can usually tell Electron apps from how they behave (mousing over any clickable UI elements turns into a hand on Electron but native apps usually don’t, etc.) but I’ve always thought that Office apps, including the latest, are native.
Its pretty clear that old Outlook is native and the new Outlook is Electron just based on how it feels.
Idk if this has been proven, but I’m certain that the current desktop versions of Office apps are just Electron-style wrappers for the web versions. I switched from Windows to Linux about a year ago and have found the web apps to be perfectly sufficient
In my opinion the web apps are better. i work for two companies using their own IT setups; at both, the installed W10 apps suck. They get stuck and lag or struggle to scroll to data im searching etc. The web app always works as expected, assuming your internet is good
I have the opposite experience. In particular, copying/pasting groups of cells in Excel online never works right.
The only reason I use the web apps is for collaborative editing at work. Even though the desktop version is supposed to be the same, it never works. It always says someone has the document locked, even though the files are in Sharepoint and nobody has chosen to lock the file.
We have experienced that, the .lock file sometimes gets stuck and says a user has file checked out while clearly they don’t
If so, they’re pretty good at covering it up. You can usually tell Electron apps from how they behave (mousing over any clickable UI elements turns into a hand on Electron but native apps usually don’t, etc.) but I’ve always thought that Office apps, including the latest, are native.
Its pretty clear that old Outlook is native and the new Outlook is Electron just based on how it feels.
My reason to use M$ Office was Visual Basic which didn’t work on Libre Office and that doesn’t work in the web apps either.