> The biggest competition for Office 2000 was . . . Office 97. And this is why Microsoft and Adobe are both pushing their products entirely over to subscriptio

> The biggest competition for Office 2000 was . . . Office 97. And this is why Microsoft and Adobe are both pushing their products entirely over to subscriptions which stop working if you stop paying: They really don't do anything from version to version that justifies the cost or effort in upgrading. Subscription pricing for desktop software is an incredible way to tell your customers you have a lot of employees to feed that don't really do much to deliver new value to the customer.