In order to bring full support for Office applications to the walled-off garden that is known as Windows 10 S, Microsoft has announced that it will bring the entire Office suite to the Windows Store for compatibility with a broad lineup of new education-oriented devices.

The company recently announced its Surface Laptop, a minimalist 13.5-inch notebook for high school, college, and professional students that runs a new security and performance-optimized version of its operating system called Windows 10 S. Since this version of Windows does not allow any installations of Win32 applications outside the Windows Store, users would be unable to install retail Office editions and would have been left using Office Live, the online version of its productivity suite.

Microsoft has already made its Office apps available in the Windows Store, but they are all touch-friendly, mobile optimized versions designed for Windows 10 Mobile and the Surface Hub. Now that it has released a version of Windows that necessitates Windows Store installations, it has refocused on optimizing Office for its hundreds of millions of notebook and desktop PCs running Windows 10 S, Pro, Home and Enterprise.

The transition from full-fledged Win32 Office apps to Windows Store counterparts relies on Microsoft’s Project Centennial, a toolset announced in April 2015 that allows developers to port existing Win32 apps and convert them into Universal Windows Platform (UWP) equivalents. The project is expected to help developers transition over 60 million “classic” Windows applications over to UWP, according to company executives.

Although Windows chief Terry Myerson did not specifically mention when these desktop Office apps would be arriving in the Windows Store, he hinted that the move would be a strong selling point for Windows 10 S as Microsoft prepares to recapture market share from Chromebooks in the classroom environment.