MSIX and app attach made easy

As the purpose of this session was also to provide assurance to IT Pros and Software Developers that MSIX is ready for mainstream adoption, there's still a need here in my view for the MSIX team to proactively push the Office / M365 team on a release.

Historically Microsofts commitment to a packaging technology (MSI/ App-V / C2R etc) has been demonstrated via the release of Office in that format.

The Office team first blogged in 2021 about working on an MSIX release of Office but have so far failed to deliver one. Not releasing Office in MSIX creates two issues:
a) Add-ons / apps that need to inteface with Office are difficult to package in MSIX due to the integration.
b) It casts doubt to your customers that MSIX is ready for mainstream adoption for the more complex apps if the Office team are not prepared to back it (most of the MSIX releases from Microsoft are comparatively simple apps) .

This was the article from 2021 but no there has been no update since - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/msix/microsoft-office-add-in-deployment-using-msix/m-p/2112121

"Windows and Office are working hard to enable M365 Apps (e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel) to be packaged and delivered in MSIX format with the same full extensibility that customer enjoy in Click-to-Run and MSI. When the time comes, we’ll communicate details and timelines as to when you will be able to package MSIX Office add-ins."