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Cheaper Version of Microsoft Office TBA
Microsoft is planning to offer a new version of Office, at a lower price: Office 365 Personal, which will cost $70 a year or $7 a month. This version will allow a person to install it on two devices,"one PC or Mac and one tablet," Microsoft's Chris Schneider explains in a blog post. Apparently Microsoft still doesn't get it that people DO NOT want subscriptions.
Today I want to announce Office 365 Personal. Coming this Spring, Office 365 Personal is a new, great option for people interested in using Office 365. It's designed for an individual, allows for one PC or Mac and one tablet to be connected to the service and will be available for $69.99 USD/year or $6.99 USD/ month (ERP)1. We recognize that there are households of all shapes and sizes and we're committed to delivering the right Office for everyone - whether that be one person or an entire household.
Additionally, we'll continue to offer our Office 365 Home Premium subscription for households, but we'll be changing the name to Office 365 Home. You'll see this change when Office 365 Personal becomes available. Whichever Office 365 subscription you choose, you'll get all of the subscription benefits including 60 minutes of Skype calling per month, 20 GB of additional OneDrive storage and always be up to date with the most recent version of Office.
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Denial
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#4784078 Posted on: 03/18/2014 12:47 AM
I don't really understand either why anyone would buy office software in this age, especially if they're pulling subscription crap.
LibreOffice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice
Because Libreoffice is **** for anything aside from the most basic use.
I don't really understand either why anyone would buy office software in this age, especially if they're pulling subscription crap.
LibreOffice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice
Because Libreoffice is **** for anything aside from the most basic use.
Ch0plol
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#4784204 Posted on: 03/18/2014 08:46 AM
Learned that the hard way last semester when I did a large presentation in the Libreoffice version of powerpoint. I spent a few days on it getting the formatting perfect and then when I opened it in powerpoint to present to the class everything was just a garbled mess.
That's when I just bit the bullet and subscribed to Office 365 student.
Libreoffice worked great for me for writing papers, but until you can be 100% assured that your projects won't get messed up Microsoft still runs the game in business / school.
Because Libreoffice is **** for anything aside from the most basic use.
Learned that the hard way last semester when I did a large presentation in the Libreoffice version of powerpoint. I spent a few days on it getting the formatting perfect and then when I opened it in powerpoint to present to the class everything was just a garbled mess.
That's when I just bit the bullet and subscribed to Office 365 student.
Libreoffice worked great for me for writing papers, but until you can be 100% assured that your projects won't get messed up Microsoft still runs the game in business / school.
HairyCube
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#4784289 Posted on: 03/18/2014 12:08 PM
Don't like subscriptions, ugly interface and cloud services. Until this stuff is gone, I'm sticking with the free version of KingSoft Office.
Don't like subscriptions, ugly interface and cloud services. Until this stuff is gone, I'm sticking with the free version of KingSoft Office.
StewieTech
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#4784364 Posted on: 03/18/2014 02:30 PM
I use apache openoffice. It costs $0 a year, $0 a month. Screw you M$.
I use apache openoffice. It costs $0 a year, $0 a month. Screw you M$.
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I got mine through my firms work scheme, it cost £8.95 for Office 2010 and then they updated it to office 2013 for the same price. Well worth the money.