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MS Office 2013 Home/Business - non-transferable (1 PC p.person) - Caveat emptor.

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Carol Haynes:
On amazon.com:

Product Features
Platform: PC Key Card

* Licensed for one user for install on one PC. Box inculudes one Product Key Card - No Disc
* The latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook
* Designed to help you create and organize faster with new, time saving features and a clean, modern look
* Save documents in the cloud on SkyDrive and access them away from home
* One time purchase for the life of your PC; non-transferrable
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See http://www.amazon.com/Office-Home-Business-2013-1User/dp/B009SPWJ98

As I noted above they make this very clear on the microsoft office website if you buy online.

Another little 'nasty' that has slipped through is that the student/academic edition has a 4yr license that expires - never used to! And it is done via Office 365. I suppose a 4yr subscription is fair if you wanted Office 365 but the academic DVD version has disappeared and there doesn't appear to be a key-card equivalent.

See: http://www.amazon.com/University-Academic-Student-Validation-Required/dp/B009VL9YGU

40hz:
@Carol - Wow! Good catch! I didn't even notice that until you called attention to it.

Having been previously accused (due to my remarks about Microsoft's walled garden/app store strategy with Windows Metro) I'm wondering if anybody here still thinks I'm indulging in FUD propagation when it comes to Microsoft? ;D


"The real catch to me being right about all this is
                I'm even more screwed if I am."

barney:
I'm wondering if anybody here still thinks I'm indulging in FUD propagation when it comes to Microsoft?
-40hz (February 14, 2013, 01:05 PM)
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FUD?  Methinks not  ;D.  In this case, FUD=Frequent Usage Discouraged (there are other words, but I'm trying to be genteel about it  :P).  MS Office became an albatross around my neck roughly a decade++ ago, so I cut the cord and let it sink.  Better options have been available for longer than that.  MS did a great thing in standardizing software development (?), and they've been trying to overcome that lapse ever since.  I wonder how long it'll be before they start billing by minutes of usage  :-\?  Office seems to be traveling in that direction.

xtabber:
Microsoft has backtracked because of the furor aroused, "customer feedback" in MS-speak.

However, they are still trying to force everyone into a subscription model - $99 per year for home users and $150 for business users, with up to 5 "devices" allowed per user.

Carol Haynes:
LOL - yippee

Actually I bet they haven't back tracked because of the public outcry - I bet it is because LibreOffice and Open Office have seen a surge and their sales are down.

Lots of stupid users out there but it doesn't take a genius to work out that expensive software that dies with your computer is a bad thing! and most people I have spoken to are horrified by the idea of an annual subscription (hell I still see a lot os Office 97, 2000 and XP out there, if you have had 15 years out of the price of your software why would you settle for an annual subscription?).

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