We’re undecided who or how many individuals use Microsoft Office on a Chromebook but when that is you, you are in for a downgraded expertise. Microsoft will quickly kill its Office app for Android on Chrome OS, the corporate confirmed Wednesday to About Chromebooks. The app will depart the Google Play Store on September 18th, at which level customers might want to register by way of the online through Office.com or Outlook.com. As 9to5Google notes, the Office app will nonetheless be out there on Android telephones, even because it vanishes from Chrome OS.

Though signing in through the online app ought to work in a pinch, it is clearly an inferior expertise to what the Android app has provided till now, to not point out what Google’s G Suite can do on its native Google-controlled platform. In specific, be warned that the online app provides virtually no offline entry, one thing customers have loved on the Google Play Store model. 

It’s unclear why Microsoft is making this variation, besides that the corporate described the transfer in a press release to About Chromebooks as an “effort to provide the most optimized experience for Chrome OS/Chromebook customers.” Whatever the intention, that is probably to offer Chromebook customers one more reason to offer the G Suite a strive, in the event that they have not already. Or hey, maybe they’re going to ditch their Chromebooks and obtain the Android app on Windows 11.