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And so maybe I can finally get rid of Windows in our office.

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You are running an office on Chrome OS? :/ – William Hilsum Jun 29 '11 at 14:32
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Sorry, but the answer is no. Here are the system requirements:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/system-requirements.aspx#fbid=DEOG7U8bNvf

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There's this page, which seems to contradict it:onlinehelp.microsoft.com/office365-enterprises/ff652534.aspx – chrism2671 Jun 29 '11 at 15:00
@chrism2671 You asked about the whole thing, and the system requirements were clear. Of course, all the contradictions relate to the ability to run web-based apps only. Of course, any computer with most browsers can do that. – KCotreau Jun 29 '11 at 15:19
OK I've tried this out now. The 'office' (word, excel) part of Office 365 does indeed work; however it is an implementation that is closer to google docs than it is to office feature wise- hardly 'Microsoft Office' running on linux. Still just a pipe dream... – chrism2671 Jun 29 '11 at 16:27
@chrism2671 Thank you for the update. To be honest, that is what I was thinking was going to be the case, but I was not 100% sure. – KCotreau Jun 29 '11 at 16:43
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Assuming you are referring to the webmail portion of Office 365, then it doesn't work on Linux + Chrome, but as far as I can tell, there is no reason it shouldn't work.

I think the issue is just with the Linux + Chrome user agent. The webmail works fine under Chrome on Windows and Os X, so I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be able to work fine under Linux. Microsoft most likely forgot to include the user agent for the Linux + Chrome combo.

Update:
Got this working on Linux using this user agent spoofer extension, http://spoofer-extension.appspot.com/.

It doesn't work on the built in Windows Chrome 13 user agent, but if you use this user agent , take from this site, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7 It should work.

Note that you may have to logout and log back in for the user agent to be properly reread.

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The webapp part of it SHOULD in theory. However, the performance and specifics may depend - they may have a mobile device optimised layout.

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