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Microsoft Office 2024 Will Be Available Without Subscription (betanews.com) 39

SofiaWW writes: Microsoft has announced that the next subscription-free version of its Office suite will launch later this year. A commercial preview of Office LTSC 2024 will be available from next month, with a full launch scheduled for later in the year.

The Office Long-Term Servicing Channel is supported for five years, and it holds great appeal for the many businesses that are not keen on the idea of software subscriptions. There will also be a consumer-focused version of the suite, Office 2024, available via a traditional 'one-time purchase' model.
Further reading: Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (From 2019).
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Microsoft Office 2024 Will Be Available Without Subscription

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  • Ok, usual question, can you uninstall it and if .... huh?

    What?

    Hey! You can't throw a curveball like that!

  • How, and to what degree does Microsoft intend to screw us in the end?

    • by leptons ( 891340 )
      Nobody is forcing you to buy it.
    • by cfalcon ( 779563 ) on Monday March 18, 2024 @12:56PM (#64325511)

      I *think* it is the word "device".
      A real license lets you remove it from machine A to go to machine B. So if I change my machine thrice, I still have that one license. If instead upgrading your machine means your license is dead, that would be it.

      I am not sure though- other companies have done this, and the "device" wording makes me think this is it.

    • How, and to what degree does Microsoft intend to screw us in the end?

      They called me up the other day and threatened to kill my family if I don't buy Office 2024 and uninstall Linux from my machine. They are true monsters.

  • There is only one question for me regarding Office: can I use it local without any relationship to some "cloud service" and that like Office 2007 "forever"?

  • by Murdoch5 ( 1563847 ) on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:34PM (#64326047) Homepage
    LibreOffice doesn't require a subscription, isn't platform locked, doesn't need aggressive / abusive licensing. LibreOffice is also Open Source, Open Audit, and supports free and open extensions by default, so really the question is why are you abusing users with the garbage that is MS Office?

    MS Office has been a non-starter for at least 10 years, and probably longer, although I'll be fair and only go back until I was in University. Seriously, if you have the option between a locked, restrictive, abusive platform that is a chore to use, unstable, annoying, and costs money, when free alternatives exists that are better in almost every measurable way, what is the defence?

    Apart from something stupid like: “Being Microsoft Office” or “Being trusted” (which it's not), can anyone list a series of compelling and convincing points as to why you should pick MS Office, over LibreOffice?
  • The subscription Microsoft 365 Family is well worth the cost for the 5 TB of OneDrive storage at 1 TB for each user.

    Not only that, but each family member is allowed to install five copies of Office 365 on their computers. That's a potential 25 copies of Office 365 and 5 TB of OneDrive storage for $100/year.

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