[Mr. K]

they got tired of trying to get people to buy a new version every few years and so they decided to make you pay for the one you have yearly.

I don’t know ANY company that is on the latest version

[cuban leaf]

they got tired of trying to get people to buy a new version every few years and so they decided to make you pay for the one you have yearly.

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My computer has a slightly simplified version of microsoft office that is free. Other than the ad strip on the right and my inability to bring up a ruler, I love it. I use the full version at work and have the full version of the last office without ribbons on disk if I absolutely need it, but I like using the same software at home and at work.

But there is no way I’d pay an annual fee (which is what they want me to do) to own it. I’d use openoffice before I’d do that.

[9YearLurker]

I hate ‘em, have hated them for years, but their new Office pricing is the absolute worst. I think big corporations should just switch wholesale to Libre Office.

[SamAdams76]

I think it's a great deal. For $99 a year, I get Microsoft Office on four devices (up to 5 if I need it). That's $20-25 a year per device to run the latest and greatest version of Office. Back in the 1990s, I paid something like $700 for a single-user copy of Office and it was out of date two years later.

Does anybody remember Microsoft Cinemania? Now that was a rip-off. I think I used it maybe 4 times. Now it's shelfware because the IMDB website has 1000x the information that Cinemania had. And it's free and up to date.