I've stopped installing office on my machines now for some years. On the odd occasion I do need to access a document of some kind, I put it in my Google drive and open it in Google docs. It even gives me a nice way to save as PDF if I need to. My work machines usually have office as part of the SOE so use whatever is installed. So my personal usage of Office is pretty much zero.
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > So, in all the below, who actually needs to access Office apps, and how > often, and why?**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *mike smith > *Sent:* Friday, 10 May 2013 11:55 AM > > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Is Surface really failing?**** > > ** ** > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > **** > > **** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *mike smith > *Sent:* Thursday, 9 May 2013 11:49 PM**** > > > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Is Surface really failing?**** > > **** > > Office. Seriously?!? I could understand why you might want to run > Win2k12 as a desktop and have office. But generally when you remote into a > server, it’s not your desktop – it’s an actual server you wouldn’t be > running Office on it.**** > > **** > > And yes. We've got servers set up to do builds, which run tests after, > some of which are office integration. Because you don't want it, doesn't > mean everyone doesn't. Seriously.**** > > **** > > And running your integration tests involves someone manually logging onto > a server using RDP and running Office apps? That doesn’t seem to be very > efficient to me. Surely this can be automated using your testing suite?*** > * > > ** ** > > It is automated. don't jump to conclusions.**** > > **** > > **** > > I can understand that you might have to configure Office (assuming you > don’t have a build system that does this for you), but surely that’s a > one-off type operation?**** > > **** > > ** ** > > THe integration requires Outlook to be present. **** > > **** > > And in Production (rather than your test environment) this is going to > be even less common.**** > > **** > > But if you seriously need to use Office interactively often on your > server, then I suspect it’s not a common case (so I don’t think it really > detracts from the point I was making that the Start screen isn’t really > that important on Win2k12), but if you need to do it, pin the Office apps > to the Task Bar.**** > > **** > > To reiterate, getting to the Start screen isn’t really something that > needs to be done often on Win2k12. I’m not saying “no one needs to do this, > ever”**** > > **** > > ** ** > > More often than you'd imagine. **** > > ** ** >
