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Really? These are "premium" features requiring a subscription?? • Change page orientation • Insert page and section breaks • Highlight table cells with custo
by kstenerud 11y ago
Really? These are "premium" features requiring a subscription??
• Change page orientation
• Insert page and section breaks
• Highlight table cells with custom color shading
• Enable columns in page layout
- skrowl 11y agoI was about to go looking for "what stuff do I need office 365 to do" but you saved me the time! Sounds like it's best to just keep using google drive.
- NeutronBoy 11y agoWhile Google Docs is good, it's not a replacement for Office if you need to do anything more than basic documentation unfortunately.
- kstenerud 11y agoNeither is Office for Android when they disable basic functionality like page breaks.
- dewiz 11y agoWhat? Microsoft is asking money for a product so that they can pay their employees ? </sarcasm>
- vetinari 11y agoThat could be done with one time purchase. But subscription? No, thanks.
- ytdht 11y agoit should be free if you already own office
- balls187 11y agoWhy?
- click170 11y agoBecause most of the competition is free regardless of if you have Office? Or perhaps they think they somehow offer more value then every competing tool. They don't to me and my company but some one must be buying it or they wouldn't be selling it for long.
- ytdht 11y agoIf you pay for office, you should get Office... that pretty much sums it up for me. And perhaps everyone who uses Office won't use Android as their primary content creation device... but I might be wrong.
- VieElm 11y agoMicrosoft is obligated to its stakeholders (investors and employees) to capture all the value it can for the products it creates. They're not building software out of goodwill. You do have the choice to not buy Office if you don't like the pricing scheme.
- ytdht 11y agoyou do, but is it the most profitable option for Microsoft is my point
- scholia 11y agoIt could fill it with adverts and track you, which is how Google pays for its "free" stuff. Or it could attach it to $1,500 hardware dongles, like Apple. The Microsoft ecosystem is much more powerful, and works both online and offline, and it's cross-platform (Windows, Android, iOS), but you don't think any of this is worth paying for? Perhaps you have much more important things to spend your money on. How much is your smartphone costing you? How much do you spend on Spotify, or Starbucks? How much would you have to pay Google for the 50GB mailbox and 1TB of storage bundled with Office 365?