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That was a strategic move, if you keep on the perpetual license for Office you promote people using other services for sync-in and storage. If you move it to a
by lalos 7y ago
That was a strategic move, if you keep on the perpetual license for Office you promote people using other services for sync-in and storage. If you move it to a service like O365 you include that as part of the subscription (online editor and cloud storage). Not doing that transition might have cost Microsoft their position in the productivity app world, as new companies started popping up that were cloud first. Plus, I believe you can still buy Office licenses but you will not get updates after some time.
- annoyingnoob 7y agoThe thing about O365 is the pricing, its priced about/near the price of the 'Pro' version of the desktop version (for business users). We get a lot of value out of the online services that come with it, O365 is a better value than the straight perpetual license (it comes with a lot of other products). For Quickbooks on the other hand, I'm not sure that the SaaS offering has feature parity with the desktop version. I find a perpetual license for Acrobat Pro 2017 to be a better value than a subscription to Acrobat DC. And Adobe makes it hard to find how to purchase the perpetual license, you have to go searching for the right link. Yes, these are all business decisions and mostly working against me.