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MS office has never been cheap or included
by queenkjuul 7mo ago
MS office has never been cheap or included
- downrightmike 7mo agoForced +$30 per seat per month to get people loaded into their proprietary AI
- bananamogul 7mo agoI guess you don’t remember a time when spreadsheets sold for $495 a seat. And that was just the spreadsheet. IIRC, Excel 1.0 retailed for $99.
- ssl-3 7mo agoOne source[1] says the first release of Excel (for the Mac, in 1985) had a price of $395, or about $1,200 in inflation-adjusted 2026 dollars. [1]: https://archive.org/details/history-of-PC https://archive.org/details/history-of-PC
- add-sub-mul-div 7mo agoIt's $8.30/month. It's cheaper than Netflix and Amazon Prime.
- snmx999 7mo agoOver 50 years' time that's $4980.
- kube-system 7mo ago50 years ago you needed about 5 million bucks to get started with electronic spreadsheets on your IBM mainframe