[ubuntu-uk] Online Office Apps

[Alan Pope]

On 21 February 2014 15:07, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Does anybody know if the on-line MS office tools, such as those you access
> through Hotmail, SkyDrive etc, render DOCX format files exactly the same as
> the desktop applications? It would be good to save the cost of future Office
> upgrades, and I could get rid of my Windows partition.
>

Could you not migrate your Windows install to a VM. Keep it asleep and
wake it up when you need to work on office. Sleep again after. That
way you won't have the overhead of booting it up (or rebooting into
Windows) and starting office.

Cheers,
Al.