…but I don't need to buy Office every year. I have Office 2007 installed and it meets my needs…
This.
Me too. And I just don't need anything newer currently.
About 365 Home User price it's possible to find the subscription for less than $100, where I live there is currently 50% off possibility at one store.
But in reality, Office 365 is again a case where a company instead of government is taxing air. In other words, Office 365 is a scam of enormous proportions:
- I don't use Office editing each and every month. Usually I just read something or watch a presentation which means I'd be okay with just word/excel/ppt viewers.
- Says I can install Office on 5 PCs or Macs, 5 tablets (including Windows, iPad, and Android), and 5 phones. Screw you Microsoft. I don't want Office on phone garbage nor will use Office on it. How about removing that stupid idea from the package and lower the price? Yea, right, because 1 of 1000 users will use word on their iPhone I also have to pay for it.
- 1TB OneDrive cloud storage per user, for up to 5 users? Seriously? I already have account on box.com. Free of charge, no advertisments and no questions asked. It's not 1 terabyte of course, but I'm not planning to upload my games backup so I don't want some premium whatever cloud option on rapidshare clones. Nor would because my internet connection is slower than backup data on my 4Tb USB3.0 external HDD that won't last just one year but till I die. The best part? Price of that HDD is 125 pound sterling:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Backup-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B01127CY26
Twice the price of Office 365 but paid once. Not every year.
- 60 monthly Skype minutes per user, for up to 5 users? When did Microsoft become a bunch of ignorant fools? Viber is completely free for everyone, there is no mastodont corporation behind it (read, it's not Facebook's Whassup) and works on any phone and on - PC! What minutes, you can talk as much as you want and pay nothin'.
Dear Microsoft, remove the useless bloatware from the bundle, lower it's price then I can give a thought on upgrading my good old office 2007.
For those rare users who believe only Microsoft develops software and want overpriced cloud, paid phone/chat service instead of freebie and who can't live without office on phones, sell those options as DLC. DLC is a better word for scam so at least be honest and tell people what those things are.
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Additional note on win10.
Samsung suggests their customers
NOT to upgrade to win10. Reason? Drivers:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/31/windows_10_samsung_fail/
No, this is not Microsoft's fault. Samsung had almost a year to sort out drivers, yet they failed. And to be honest, I'm kinda skeptic on the whole reason, instead of drivers I bet the culprit is Samsung's bloatware, so a proper solution would be upgrade then clean install of win10 which would remove that garbage.