So why does Office 365 install all programs, with no options


  1. x509
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    So why does Office 365 install all programs, with no options


    I sort of miss the "old days," where the Office installer tree was this large tree of install/do not install/install on first use choices.

    If I had an older system with limited drive space there might have been an issue. But at a minimum, why install programs like Publisher that I will never use? For me. Publisher is just software bloat.

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  3. zebal
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    I think it's because of marketing, MS wants their users to believe they get a lot of stuff in a single package which let's them raise the price of a product.

    Another reason is they force people into buying and paying more, anyone who wants or needs only word will have to buy a whole suite so they're making money out of their hegemonic bigotry.

    The old ways have been better of course.
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  4. cereberus
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    x509 said:
    I sort of miss the "old days," where the Office installer tree was this large tree of install/do not install/install on first use choices.

    If I had an older system with limited drive space there might have been an issue. But at a minimum, why install programs like Publisher that I will never use? For me. Publisher is just software bloat.

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    Most of office has common coding, so you do not save much space by excluding components.
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  6. Daymin
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    I am at the point in my life where I would demand/beg somebody for a copy of MS-works/Office and just be like whatever if anybody ask me about it. It just seems so silly at this point in life. I could see the naive college student with the confused parents going bonkers over "What machine should I get" and "why am I paying for something that only could be installed__ times"

    Libre Office or Open Office pick your poison. %90 of people who own a computer initially used it as a typewriter and not a
    stock-market, banking machine, and least of most videogames.

    My Opinion is why does anybody needs to have the legit office suit int he modern world I have no idea. Can somebody fill me in on this?

    The only reason why MS-works is popular is because of MS-DOS/DOS on IBM machines.

    That was popular because it was a cheaper alternative to hiring a "recorder" or "messenger" agents, to even using a "typewriter" with
    "White-out". That pretty much sums up the entire MS-works innovation. Oh wait did I forget "Spellcheck" and "punctuation" along
    with "grammer" suggestions.
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