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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1686937"><p>Lori5060, I think you misread what chas_m said. He's not recommending it, he's saying that it is recommended, mostly by M$. And that is the truth, MS does hammer away at the subscription model now. The primary reason is probably financial, in that if you look at what most folks do, they get Office either installed on a PC from the manufacturer, or they get a copy (legal or not) and never update/upgrade. So by changing from an up-front cost to a monthly fee, they feel they can attract people to sign up for that fee who would otherwise never buy another version of Word. Given that the license for software is NOT a purchase of the software, but merely a purchase of a license to use the software, the monthly fee model is like renting the license. I signed up for it because of a peculiar circumstance: I will either continue to use Word and will need the upgrades that the monthly subscription is supposed to include or I will NOT continue, in which case I can cancel the subscription and stop the expense. The decision point will be before I've paid enough in subscription to have purchased the license up front. By buying a license up front, I'm committed to that cost, plus any upgrade cost that might be associated with it in the case that I continue to need it. I did the math and it came out in favor of the subscription. You need to do the math and make your own decision. One upside is that the subscription version seemed to have been fixed for ElCap before the purchased version was, but that may be just my perception.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1686937"] Lori5060, I think you misread what chas_m said. He's not recommending it, he's saying that it is recommended, mostly by M$. And that is the truth, MS does hammer away at the subscription model now. The primary reason is probably financial, in that if you look at what most folks do, they get Office either installed on a PC from the manufacturer, or they get a copy (legal or not) and never update/upgrade. So by changing from an up-front cost to a monthly fee, they feel they can attract people to sign up for that fee who would otherwise never buy another version of Word. Given that the license for software is NOT a purchase of the software, but merely a purchase of a license to use the software, the monthly fee model is like renting the license. I signed up for it because of a peculiar circumstance: I will either continue to use Word and will need the upgrades that the monthly subscription is supposed to include or I will NOT continue, in which case I can cancel the subscription and stop the expense. The decision point will be before I've paid enough in subscription to have purchased the license up front. By buying a license up front, I'm committed to that cost, plus any upgrade cost that might be associated with it in the case that I continue to need it. I did the math and it came out in favor of the subscription. You need to do the math and make your own decision. One upside is that the subscription version seemed to have been fixed for ElCap before the purchased version was, but that may be just my perception. [/QUOTE]
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