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Subscriptions for MS Office is nothing but a money grab. It is not useful to me. Maybe it’s useful for enterprises. But I use word and excel a couple times per
by TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
Subscriptions for MS Office is nothing but a money grab. It is not useful to me. Maybe it’s useful for enterprises. But I use word and excel a couple times per YEAR. I don’t fit the subscription model, but there’s no option to buy once and upgrade again in, say, 3 years.
So I’ve mostly moved to Libreoffice and Google Docs.
- gtirloni 4y agoYes, you're not the target audience. That happens.
- ThrowawayR2 4y ago> "...there’s no option to buy once and upgrade again in, say, 3 years." Uh, yes, there is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-student-2021/cfq7ttc0h8n8?activetab=pivot:overviewtab&atc=true https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoWow, I had no idea about this. Thank you. I wonder if it was buried or I just didn’t invest enough time looking for a non-subscription purchase.
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- charcircuit 4y ago>But I use word and excel a couple times per YEAR Isn't a subscription better then? Assuming the worst case of needing 3 months a year that would be 20.97 a year. Buying the home edition used to be $150. Office 365 will be cheaper until after 7 years and by then a new version of office would have been released.
- rnd0 4y agoI don't know, for me it's a onedrive subscription with extras -especially since I'm sharing the cost with a friend of mine. I'm peeved because the friend I share the costs with is using libre office so I may have to pay for the subscription myself. I would, $99/year is worth it to me even without word etc.