Ms confirms - eventually Office to be subscription only

swarfega · 10 Oct 2018

z3r010 said:

I find office 365 great value, 6 users for £79 per year with 1TB cloud storage space each is a bargain.

I cant afford £79 py. I dont use Office that much for it to be worth while.

pparks1 · 10 Oct 2018

lx07 said:

Or have no friends.

You wanna buy my 6th user account for $20 a year. You get all of the office you can handle and you get 1TB of disk space on One Drive. HAHAHHAHAHA

z3r010 · 10 Oct 2018

swarfega said:

I cant afford £79 py. I dont use Office that much for it to be worth while.

TBH I could get away without it myself, for the odd spreadsheet I do these days I could easily use google sheets and I only really use outlook out of habit, however, the girls use so much space for photos etc, it's cheaper for me to get and share an office subscription than buying storage.

Cliff S · 10 Oct 2018

One doesn't need to pay for office, just use the online version and keep documents in either your OneDive to download later, or send them to OneNote.

Superfly · 10 Oct 2018

pparks1 said:

To me, Office365 is and always has been a no-brainer.

For the Cloud-centric..maybe

Personally I use it for Outlook mainly (even have an Outlook add-on for Thunderbird on Linux)... but horses for courses...

pparks1 · 10 Oct 2018

Superfly said:

For the Cloud-centric..maybe

You do realize that you install the Office suite directly onto your computer with Office365, right? You don't stream it from the cloud to your device.

Superfly · 10 Oct 2018

pparks1 said:

You do realize that you install the Office suite directly onto your computer with Office365, right? You don't stream it from the cloud to your device.

... Yup.

lx07 · 10 Oct 2018

pparks1 said:

You do realize that you install the Office suite directly onto your computer with Office365, right? You don't stream it from the cloud to your device.

Er, if it doesn't come from the cloud where does it come from? An invisible DVD you don't insert?

pparks1 · 10 Oct 2018

lx07 said:

Er, if it doesn't come from the cloud where does it come from? An invisible DVD you don't insert?

No, what I was getting at is that I have talked with some who believed that the application was just streamed to your computer from the cloud and if you didn't have internet access you could not start up Word or Excel as it needed to come from the cloud. Thus, they didn't trust they would always be able to start Word or Excel because their Internet connection was not reliable.

And I do fall into the cloud-centric arena too.

My email is pretty much gmail these days, which is all in the cloud
My music all comes from Amazon MP3, and is stored in my account in the cloud
Everything at work is moving to AWS, so I spend most of my day configuring our stuff in the cloud.
My pictures sync automatically from my phone to my OneDrive account in the cloud, so I don't even bother backing them up anymore.

alphanumeric · 10 Oct 2018

lx07 said:

Please dont get me wrong - it is a good deal.

Unless you already paid for an earlier version of Office.

Or have no friends.

Or you got Office 2019 Pro Plus for free.

I got enough product keys with my Visual Studio subscription to install it on all my personal computers with some left over. =)