“No one’s paying for Microsoft Word, that thing that used to be free so… We gotta kill this so people too fucking stupid to use Libre Office get on board.”
Yeah, it’s kind of point. It shouldn’t have to be but just like Apple, make the non-payed version unnecessarily shit, artificially limited and constrained so people pay for the premium tier.
“No one’s paying for Microsoft Word, that thing that used to be free so… We gotta kill this so people too fucking stupid to use Libre Office get on board.”
Web-based Word is free.
But it’s shit.
And you must create a Microsoft account
Yeah, every time I’ve used word online it seems to find a new way to completely fuck up the document
Yeah, it’s kind of point. It shouldn’t have to be but just like Apple, make the non-payed version unnecessarily shit, artificially limited and constrained so people pay for the premium tier.
It works well for basic stuff that a free user might want to use it for. I prefer it to Google Docs by a wide margin.
Wh… No it isn’t.
Is sure is.
The Android and iOS apps are free as well.
Lol, you think MS is doing this to cash in on the huge Wordpad market?
They’re doing it because why support the free word processor when they could just support the non-free one?