I canceled my office 365 Home Subscription
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Yep, I cancelled it. Just not worth the money $99 a year and I think I might have used word and excel maybe 10 times this past year at home. I just installed Libre office on my mac and seems to do everything I need. I don't like openoffice nor the lack of newer office xml formats (they are still stuck on 2003/2007 and even then it requires the use of java, which makes it slow)
Should have just bought Office 2013. Makes more sense IMHO.
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If you are not using MS Office for the office (work) it is really hard to justify for home. I think that that option really exists for non-technical users who literally can't learn something new or work on two different systems and are completely trapped having to pay a fortune to use what they have at work because they can't possible learn something new.
For a normal home users, having MS Office is quite odd.
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While it might be odd, it's still common and highly desired by home users. They don't want to worry about compatibility issues, or concern themselves with learning another interface - they want it the same everywhere.
That said, the CD-key cards are definitely the way to go for the normal home users. Office 365 home edition would only be worthwhile if you need/want the storage space in my mind. -
That's a lot if money for same interface and compatibility with whom? How many users send Excel to other people?
As home users move away from desktops they will lose the reasons for Office at home too.
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As someone who MUST have MS Office for work. For home there is little to no reason. Libre office is just fine.
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A lot of people take work home with them, and so need Office, and their employer won't always pay for a licence for them.
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We are technical users, we can easily make the transition from one product to another. My users around here can't understand the difference between Word and Excel, let alone MS Office and LibreOffice.
And example: My wife is a community college teacher. She's been using MS office since Office 97. I've tried to show her how easy simple things are in Google Docs (word or spreadsheet) but she simply refused to try. I know that ultimately it would make her life much easier when dealing with her students, trading documents, but alas she's currently stuck with email for trading attachments.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
A lot of people take work home with them, and so need Office, and their employer won't always pay for a licence for them.
That cost should be on the employer if they expect an employee to work at home for them then they should be giving up the license.
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@Minion-Queen said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
A lot of people take work home with them, and so need Office, and their employer won't always pay for a licence for them.
That cost should be on the employer if they expect an employee to work at home for them then they should be giving up the license.
Here Here! Futhermore - if the employer expects you to work on stuff at home, they should almost be supplying a computer for you to work from, and if internet access is required, pay some of the users home ISP costs.
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The employer might not expect the employee to work at home, but the employee might choose to do so. For example, I often prefer to go home at 5pm, hang out with my kids, then work from 8pm to 10pm. My employer might prefer me to work through until 7pm. They're not obliged to meet my desire to work from home from time to time, but I like the convenience.
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I suppose it's different for salary exempt positions where people are expected to simply put in the time it takes to get things done. In that situation I suppose the company can say - get the work done, we've provided computers in the office, but if you choose (and we allow it) to work from home or elsewhere, it's on you to figure out how.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
A lot of people take work home with them, and so need Office, and their employer won't always pay for a licence for them.
there is office HUP for that. I think at my last job we offered that to employees at $9. But don't most people who work from home have company issued laptops anyway?
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Buying an office key card is too expensive. it's $139.99 per computer. It used to be up to three installs for the same person. Now you have to buy multiples or use the subscription for up to five.
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The key card is basically an OEM copy now, right?
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@scottalanmiller Basically. It's one computer only. Which is sad. Pretty much every software license anymore allows two installs as long as both are used by the same person and not simultaneously (ex a laptop and a desktop).
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@Dashrender said:
My users around here can't understand the difference between Word and Excel, let alone MS Office and LibreOffice.
Are your users like this guy?
Jump to 4:30, that's about where it starts getting good
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@ajstringham and you trust that exe?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@ajstringham and you trust that exe?
Webroot trusts it, and I trust Webroot.
