Windows users could use Office Online to get an official Microsoft Office experience for free, and they let desktop Linux users use an official version of Microsoft Office without hacking around in Wine, too.

These web apps aren’t just for Chromebook users, though. Microsoft even makes these apps available in the Chrome Web Store. Microsoft offers a completely free web-based version of Office called Office Online, complete with Word Online, Excel Online, and PowerPoint Online.

But unless you’re an accountant, you probably don’t need all those fancy features. Microsoft likes to trumpet how Chromebooks don’t have the full desktop version of Microsoft Office, and that’s true. Photoshop will be integrated with Google Drive, so you can easily keep track of your files.Ĭurrently, this feature is in beta and available only to “select North America based Adobe education customers with a paid Creative Cloud membership.” But it should eventually come to all Creative Cloud subscribers. When you use demanding functions, they can be sped up because they’re running on Adobe’s servers-they won’t drain your laptop’s battery faster or send modest Chromebook processors screaming. It sounds unnecessarily complicated (and means an Internet connection is vital), but Photoshop is actually such a demanding application that this could be useful.

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