Future Microsoft Office Versions Look to be Subscription Only

[Eric3988]

It's always been a subscription, even if you only had to pay for it once every 5 or 10 years. I don't think this is a big deal either way. There are plenty of office applications out there and if M$ messes it up too bad, they'll lose business. Trust the market.

 

[HimymCZe]

I know I'll prolly be THE-ODD-ONE, but if MS offers newest Windows (Home/Pro) + newest Office (Home/Pro) + 1TB OneDrive space for $4,99, I'll definitely sub.

 

[BorgOvermind]

Of course the capigtalist scum would want to get your money monthly instead of 1-time.

We'll be getting Office 2019 and be set for 10 years. Hopefully by then we'll be on Linux only.

See you around M$.

 

[TheTechGuy1337]

I have no problems with the move to subscription for Office 365. It's not like it is a yearly subscription requirement. Pay for office when you need to use it and cancel it when you no longer need it. You get the latest updated version no matter what. This is a godsend model for college students on a budget. They only need it active during school. And you are getting more than just word, excel, and powerpoint with this. You also get an outlook email account, publisher, access, and 1 terabyte of cloud storage for your account. And that storage is based on per user as well. So if you go with the family plan known as office 365 home. You get a total of 6tb of storage for all 6 accounts combined. The storage alone pays for the subscription cost imo.

 

[justanerd]

well anything as a service is a money safer since I would put simply 0 cent into such things.
I can't name a single one which ever worked.
Funny to see how Nadella ruins the company for the endusers. Looks for similar to IBM.
No problem, gaps are mist times filled ASAP by other companies then.
The way of life.

 

[Jism]

I have no problems with the move to subscription for Office 365. It's not like it is a yearly subscription requirement. Pay for office when you need to use it and cancel it when you no longer need it. You get the latest updated version no matter what. This is a godsend model for college students on a budget. They only need it active during school. And you are getting more than just word, excel, and powerpoint with this. You also get an outlook email account, publisher, access, and 1 terabyte of cloud storage for your account. And that storage is based on per user as well. So if you go with the family plan known as office 365 home. You get a total of 6tb of storage for all 6 accounts combined. The storage alone pays for the subscription cost imo. View attachment 112841View attachment 112842

For that money you could easily assemble a domain name, hosting and personal email account, not under the supervision of MS storage. Get a copy from office 2003 or so and launch this within Linux using Wine. GG.

The subscription thing is bullshit. Half the world is already paying subscriptions all over the place:

- Netflix
- Spotify
- PS4/PS3/XBOX

A subscription for an OS or mandatory "Office" software? Where where the days that you pay a one time fee for a CD with unique & personal key (license) ? The things you buy these days you do not longer own.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Haven't used Office in over a decade. However, if I had been, I'd be moving to something more worthy like LibreOffice or OpenOffice. Luckily I'm already there and have no intention of ever touching MS Office again. Certainly not alone in that.

 

[Konceptz]

I don't see this happening with Windows itself, but Office 365 is already subscription based and for what it includes its well worth it.

 

[qubit]

I wonder if they're even allowed to go on subscription for an OS? The EU would likely argue it to be unfair under competition law given most store bought PC's come with an OS by MS. Until games (and all other software) is 100% transferable to other OS, I can't see it being allowed (if to use software 'X', you need to also pay MS a monthly fee).

Or in other words, they could effectively hold your PC, your property, to ransom. Good point.

 

[GoldenX]

Next time, Ford will charge you for using your car.

 

[Octopuss]

We are still using pirated Office 2010 here.
Shove your subscriptions, Ms.

 

[micropage7]

We are still using pirated Office 2010 here.
Shove your subscriptions, Ms.

hahaaa.. i still run 2007
new office got bugs that hold me to use that
if they lower the price and fix that bugs i consider to use their new stuff

 

[TheTechGuy1337]

For that money you could easily assemble a domain name, hosting and personal email account, not under the supervision of MS storage. Get a copy from office 2003 or so and launch this within Linux using Wine. GG.

The subscription thing is bullshit. Half the world is already paying subscriptions all over the place:

- Netflix
- Spotify
- PS4/PS3/XBOX

A subscription for an OS or mandatory "Office" software? Where where the days that you pay a one time fee for a CD with unique & personal key (license) ? The things you buy these days you do not longer own.

I just saw your reply. I don't disagree with anything you said if the user who has the knowledge to do so, but you are not taking into account the general populace and their knowledge base on this subject. I've been called in to help our users setup mouse and keyboards. It is a plug and play device. I've had users who thought every time they had a problem with a pc that the modem was the problem....."Yes, she thought a modem controlled the entire pc." I had a guy lock himself out of our domain due to 10 incorrect password entries in a 5 minute time frame, come to the IT room, and tell us how we are not doing our jobs appropriately. I had a user who said he could not print. The reason being that he was not hitting the print button. My favorite was a CFO who called me over to fix his PC. He said it no longer worked. His monitor was turned off. There was nothing wrong with it.....And those are just generic tickets. Don't expect the average person to have the same knowledge that you do. So people will pay to get the features automatically thrown at them.

Other then that, I completely agree that all the subscriptions suck. We will get to the point where subscriptions to Netflix, Spotify, etc will eventually reach the point of paying for cable if people are not careful. Everyone subscribes and forgets about autopay.