And I say that as someone who earns his keep doing cloud stuff.
It doesn't, and Word works fine entirely offline.
If you want live collaboration on a document, or integration with AI, or if you want your employees not to have Word installed because that requires an IT department to manage at scale instead of running the app in a browser, then you need a network connection.
I have never wanted that ever. There are wikis with markdown for that.
> Integration with AI
AI still creeps me out to this day. Why would I want Microsoft to ingest my documents to train their next gen AI blackbox on it? Besides, the only thing AI can do is take the information the document has, and say it with more words.
> if you want your employees not to have Word installed
Got it, package management is still busted, and MS is disincentivised from fixing it.
Another story is the fact no wise user have reasons to have modern office suite to work on office task, but that's a more complex and broad topic about regressive evolution and computer illiteracy...
Its not. If you buy the desktop apps in the subscription, you get winword.exe.
Microsoft 365 includes the robust Office desktop apps that you’re familiar with, like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-365-...