Office 365 - the subscription version of Office - was released in 2011.

Microsoft still offers a one time purchase of Office. There is precedent for Bigcorp keeping a one time purchase version and offer a prescription.

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nialse 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The one-time purchase version of Microsoft Office is not available worldwide. Where offered, it is reduced to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, with Outlook as a Business edition extra. Individual apps can sometimes be bought separately, but pricing usually makes this impractical. This is to push buyers to Microsoft 365 subscriptions which is the primary product.

	▲	Obscurity4340 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What else is there/have they thats not?

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Plasmoid2000ad 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes - but perpetual purchases have an interesting gotcha that Microsoft didn't realise at first. To encourage subscription over perpetual, ongoing or evergreen updates are limited to subscription version.

Office 2024 has every feature that was added since Office 2021 to the subscription version - while a chunk of loyal customers are unaware of them. Back when Google was competing hard with Google Suite, a big perception problem formed with the perpetual customers believing and convincing others that Google were far ahead, with collab editing and other features - after Office had added equivalent.

So for me, If there's a subscription and one-time option - I wonder if the one-time gets all updates going forward. If it doesn't, I realise that they'll regret that if competition picks up, and try to fix it later. If it does include updates... I worry it will be like many other lifetime updates one-time purchases - when competition is low they'll renege on that promise.

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BeetleB 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> To encourage subscription over perpetual, ongoing or evergreen updates are limited to subscription version.

Of course ... ? Before the subscription model, you wouldn't get free Office upgrades.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You would definitely not get free upgrades for Office. You would get minor point release updates. You also had to upgrade the Mac version often for: - the System 7 transition - the 040 Macs and to get a “32 bit clean version” - to get the full speed of running natively on PPC Macs - to get a native OS X version instead of one that ran in the OS 9 sandbox - the Intel transition to get native performance. I would much rather pay $150 (?) a year for a five user license where each user gets 1TB of storage and each user can use Office across Macs, Windows, iPhones and iPads. It’s the same price as Dropbox’s 2TB plan and all you get for that is storage. On a related note: Steve Jobs was right - Dropbox is a feature not a product.
	▲	albedoa 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes. That sentence is setup for the speculation in the third paragraph. Folks in this sub-thread are wondering how the one-time price option plays out with Apple Creator Studio.

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raw_anon_1111 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So far from what I can tell, Final Cut Pro has gotten perpetual updates. Since you can only buy it via the Mac App Store, ther can’t do upgrade pricing.

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benterix 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Microsoft still offers a one time purchase of Office.

he writing is on the wall, they will remove it sooner or later.

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addandsubtract 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

*Microsoft 365 Copilot

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systemtest 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Please note that you need Microsoft 365 Copilot Live Essentials for Business Premium if you want InsightDeck (formally PowerPoint) included.

	▲	patapong 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had to google this to see if it was satire... What have we come to

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PinguTS 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Actually, you can buy only the 2024 version of MS Office for Mac, while the subscription is more up to date. You cannot buy a packaged 2025 version.