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The article says that other office apps can only do collaborative document work in their browser versions, but I thought Word can do it natively as long as the document is in OneDrive/Sharepoint/whatever microsoft came up with next?
I recall opening a shared document locally with Word and being able to collaborate.
Nevertheless, amazing news for Libre software!
Yes, Word (and only Word) can edit collaboratively on the desktop if the document is in SharePoint (and OneDrive, because OneDrive is SharePoint).
And teams is SharePoint too...lol pieces of shit software.
Nah, excel and ppt collab is also possible in the desktop apps.
Only for OneDrive. SharePoint documents lock excel tables and only one person can edit at a time. Though multiple instances can see and update the changes as the locked version is updated. Something about credentials.
Ah OK, that might be true. Because I'm fairly certain I saw multiple users at the same time on the desktop app for an excel sheet located in SharePoint
Really? I tried it about a year ago and the official answer from Microsoft was that it was unsupported.
Okay yeah thought I misunderstood something. Thanks!
Yes MS office can do it natively in the apps now. but that does use one drive sync. It didn't have that support at first, so you had to use web version for collab.I assume the author is going off old info. That being said, I wouldn't be suprised if MS tries to make the local programs a web shortcut someday.
Libre working towards live collaboration is huge, it's probably the biggest modern features keeping IT nerds from pushing to their bosses as a free replacement for Microsoft.
Yeah I assumed old info as well. And with electronjs allowing web apps to run as native apps I also have suspicions that the version between web and native is going to blur out with MS apps.
I am so hyped for Libre software. Inkscape is another amazing software that has come a long way recently.