Microsoft is killing its Office app on Chromebooks

We are not sure who or how many people use Microsoft Office on Chromebook but if it’s you, you are in a revenge experience. Microsoft will immediately kill Office applications for Android in Chrome OS, the company confirms Wednesday to Chromebooks. This application will leave the Google Play Store on September 18, where the user needs to enter through the web through Office.com or Outlook.com. When 9to5Google Notes, the Office application will still be available on Android phones, even when it disappears from Chrome OS.

Although entering through a web application must work in an emergency, it is clearly a lower experience for what Android application has to offer until now, not to mention what Google G Suite can do on Google-controlled platforms. In particular, be warned that web applications offer almost no offline access, something that users have enjoyed on the Google Play Store version.

It is not clear why Microsoft made this change, except that the company described the steps in a statement about the Chromebook as “efforts to provide the most optimized experience for Chrome OS / Chromebook customers.” Whatever the intention, this tends to give a Chromebook user another reason to try the G suite, if they haven’t done it yet. Or hey, maybe they will throw their Chromebook and download the Android application on Windows 11