‘”paid subscription service” ‘——Yep. Corel in the Clouds. Wonderful, instead of $60 for software, yeah get to purchase a sub for year.
I made sure to put into the survey that it was a stupid idea -- and they'd definitely lose me as a customer; kinda sad because I like WordPerfect -- because anyone who would have a need to keep things secure (like lawyers working a sensitive case) would be exposing their data to unnecessary risks... on the plus-side I've not heard anything more about the idea so hopefully MS will go that route and lose the major market-share.
That might be a good thing for Open Office too... considering it's basically an MS clone, such a system would run antithetical to the sensibilities of the OO developers and they'd likely break to "go their own way".
Because you really NEED that next round of features you’ll never use!