Second, Office hasn't really looked like Windows for like... the past 20 years.
It's actually not that terrible, but I believe it's nowhere near feature parity. Not to mention there is a galaxy of add-ons that still need to be rewritten from scratch to work on the web version, and a lot of people cannot live without them.
Excel is a classic case of 80% of users requiring 20% of all functionality, but that 20% being different for each user. Still, Microsoft made it very clear that the future is web-first.
They don't seem to care.
For my part, LibreOffice Calc does all of what I want Excel to do, although not quite as smoothly. But I'm much happier donating to them than paying Microsoft.
Native is dead as it seems, at least for he Microsoft Office Team.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/20/microsoft_calendar_ma...
1. Outlook desktop - old MFC / win32 crapfest
2. Windows Mail / Calendar - new WPF crapfest.
3. O365 online outlook / outlook.com - fat web app.
4. "New" Outlook - this is a fat Electron style app based on the web app.
The latter is actually pretty good - been using it for a couple of months. This is apparently going to replace all the other ones on the desktop.
6. MacOS Outlook
You must be using a different New Outlook than me. I've been conscripted into trying it before the mass rollout to the rest of my company. It's so slow and missing so many features from the Old Outlook that it's only really usable for the most basic tasks.
> Although you can't create, run, or edit VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macros in Excel for the web, you can open and edit a workbook that contains macros. Any existing macros will remain in the workbook, and you can open the workbook in the Excel desktop app to view and edit the macros.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/work-with-vba-mac...