Since the OP wants to use Microsoft Cloud services, air gaps are apparently of no concern.
It remains possible to purchase Office 2013 separate from Office 365 too, although that is not a bargain unless you can get a student or faculty edition. I suspect there may be periodic activation confirmations though. My point was that you do have the Office desktop applications with the consumer and small-business Office 365 subscriptions. It was incorrect to say that Office 365 "resides" in the cloud, suggesting exclusion of the desktop. The permanent air-gap prohibition is hardly a concern for billions of users. As a check-off, it is hardly a disqualifier. I'm surprised that such weight is argued as a differentiator compared to the questions and concerns the OP expressed. Jonathon, do you operate any personal-productivity systems that way? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: jonathon [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 12:16 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Open Office vs Microsoft 365 On 09/11/14 19:00, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > This is a misunderstanding. The Household, Personal and Small Business > Pro Office 365 Subscriptions include a full set of Microsoft Office > 2013 Desktop Applications (on Windows), the latest Macintosh suite If you read the fine print, those applications will cease to function, if they do not call home after a specific number of days. Which means that you can not run it on a system that is permanently air-gapped to all other networks. jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
