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Re:Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription... by jsmith99 on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:30AM (#30022107)
At least Microsoft are still making personal office subscriptions cheaper than buying office was. 5 users, each with several devices and their own terabyte of OneDrive, is £60 a year at many retailers. I assume they will jack up the price later.
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Re:Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription... by DoingIsLearning on Friday January 21, 2022 @07:32AM (#30022512)
> Microsoft are still making personal office subscriptions cheaper than buying office was.

Nah you are missing the forest for the trees. Office at the moment is a gateway drug for Microsoft to get you on their cloud services. Office is not an end product anymore, it is a hook to capture market into their cloud services. They could sell office at a loss and still make money from all the Corporate/government contracts they got hooked on Azure.

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Re:Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription... by ericd on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:15AM (#30023739)
Eh I still chose to buy, I usually use a copy of office for 5-10 years, so it’s still vastly cheaper to buy.
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