Microsoft Office 365 Forum

For classic Office 2013 , it's easy to get an ISO to test installation and register the licence afterwards .

But how can we test office 365 to match windows installation without going to the process of subscribing ?

The principle issue with Office 365, is that in order to get the Installer,

• you will need an Microsoft Account - - and for some Linux Users - that could be an issue . . .

EDIT: you also will need to provide an Credit Card for an Year's Payment,

• • after your One Month Free Trial.

and before you can Download the Actual Installer, itself.

I know I'm a bit late to this party... but there is a way, although a difficult one :-/

I personally managed to do it with the Office Deployment Tool (search for it on Microsoft site) and running it in such a way that it first downloads the Office files it needs for installation. Then I ran it again so that it installs Office from the offline downloaded files (I also used a configuration file where you can specify which Office products you want to install - I only use Word, Excel and Powerpoint). There is an example of how to use the configuration file on Microsoft support pages, so investigate a little 😊

During the installation I got a message 'Something went wrong' but everything seemed to install fine, well more or less fine... I was able to use my Microsoft account to register the copy but the whole thing was running quite slow (compared to MS Office 2013 via Crossover) on the initial Crossover 17 installation. Since I updated to Crossover 17.5 it seems its running faster, but there is now some issue with my account (there is an 'Account Error' shown in the Account section and I cannot sign in again to resolve the issue). But I can create new files, open existing ones and save them... Weird :/

Another way to install Office 365 is to do it from the browser (like in Windows) but u need to use Chrome extension that spoofs it into thinking you are using Windows operating system (Internet Explorer). I haven't used this solution and cannot really help you on that front. Point is, once u donwload the installer this way you use Crossover to run it...

I hope this message helps someone who is searching for a solution to run the Office 365 version via Crossover, because this is clearly the way MS wants to go with the Office package in the future...

Kudos to all the devs in Codeweavers who are continually chasing the moving target that is Microsoft 😊 I think MS does not want to release Office software natively on Linux because they would shoot themselves in the proverbial foot and lots of people would instantly ditch Windows OS permanently...