Microsoft is responding to the Chromebook threat with Windows 10 S, a version of Windows that is locked down to the Windows Store. It's interesting to see Microsoft offer Office support on Chromebooks, which have been threatening Windows desktop dominance for some time. If you really need to open a Word or Excel document without using Google Drive's conversion features, now you can. The Office apps are actually way better than Google's own Drive apps on a tablet, which are just stretched-out phone apps (although on Chromebooks, you'd use the Drive website.) Advertisementįurther Reading Microsoft takes on Chrome OS with new Windows 10 SWhile most people are probably buying Chromebooks to use Google's suite of online services, having a fully offline capable copy of Office is a handy thing to have in the tool chest. Unlike nearly every other Android tablet app in existence, Microsoft's tablet apps are actually great! They offer a big-screen optimized interface that looks a lot like the Windows apps but with a smaller feature set. For Microsoft Office, this means Chromebook users get the Android tablet version of Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint. The Play Store on Chromebooks brings Android apps to the formerly "Web only" platform. You need an Office 365 subscription to actually save and edit a document, but if you're paying the $7-per-month fee, you can now fire up the apps on a Chromebook. It has been a long journey to get here, with random individual Chromebook models gaining and losing Office support for the past year, but now, according to a report from Chrome Unboxed, the Office suite is live on all Chromebooks. Through the magic of the Play Store, the official Microsoft Office apps have arrived on Chromebooks.
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