The Verge-"Microsoft is revealing the final pricing structure for its Office 2013 packages today. After introducing a preview of Office 2013 in July, Microsoft is planning to offer a subscription version of Office 2013, under the Office 365 Home Premium branding, for $8.33 per month ($99.99 per year). The subscription package will include all of the typical Office applications — including Outlook — but with the ability to use the software on five PCs or Macs. Microsoft is also bundling in 60 minutes of Skype world calling per month and an Office on demand feature that lets you stream the apps to Windows 7 or Windows 8 PCs. One additional benefit to the subscription version is the promise of regular updates and new features — Microsoft tells us "new capabilities will be added multiple times per year."
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My Sister in law for example was recently laid off so she decided to start her own graphic design business. Adobe is very expensive to buy out right so she got herself the subscription and has access to ALL the applications in the Adobe suite. Pretty awesome deal if you ask me.
Office looks like a bit of a joke. Pay $80+ a year for the suite. What happens after 2 years? Do you still pay for it or do you own it out right.
What happens when you no longer need word, excel, powerpoint e.t.c but need outlook?
Where do you see that? I've looked at their site many times and considered getting their creative cloud package for the video editing packages. The only one that seems to have a caveat is the smallest package which requires you to have a valid serial number from at least CS3.
I don't dispute that the MS pricing structure is screwed. It always is with M$ products but they're on the right track in my opinion.
'install any of the CS6 apps' sounds a bit misleading though in their advert for it.
It sucks for those businesses that license it (I'm sure most will stay in 2003/2007 though).
If you have a standard server then you can still get exchange ect for it but id you work out the month cost for a sbs user it is worth the money.
If Software was in the 30 to 60 dollar range normally, people wouldn't pirate it. Looking at Adobe (they do make substantial improvements each time) why can't they sell the older versions cheaper? It's mostly going to students and what not, and a student discount still puts the software at 200 dollars or more.