Technically speaking, Office already runs on a Linux platform -- Android. In fact, if you subscribe to Office 365, they almost* don't care where you run it, they're still being paid.
* = I suspect the reason behind not creating Office for Linux desktop is that: non-Android Linux desktops have too little market share to be worth the engineering effort / risk of cannibalizing Windows desktop sales. Whereas Android has huge market share and people were perfectly comfortably using Android even without Office. So in that narrow case it made sense to go where the users are.
And they can say that on Linux desktops, you can use a very compatible version of Office inside a browser.
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Technically speaking, Office already runs on a Linux platform -- Android. In fact, if you subscribe to Office 365, they almost* don't care where you run it, they're still being paid.
* = I suspect the reason behind not creating Office for Linux desktop is that: non-Android Linux desktops have too little market share to be worth the engineering effort / risk of cannibalizing Windows desktop sales. Whereas Android has huge market share and people were perfectly comfortably using Android even without Office. So in that narrow case it made sense to go where the users are.
And they can say that on Linux desktops, you can use a very compatible version of Office inside a browser.