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Microsoft’s new Office 2013 license
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Amnesia10
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 http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/why-microsofts-new-office-2013-license-may-send-users-to-google-docs/ | | | | Quote: If you buy a perpetual retail license for Office 2013, it will be locked to the computer you first install it on, forever. Buy a new PC and you won't be allowed to install your existing copy of Office on it, even if you wipe the disk of the old PC. You'll have to splurge for a new one.
This is a change in policy from Office 2010. Office 2010 permitted a single transition from one PC to a new one. It's not, however, an entirely new policy: OEM pre-installed versions of Office (and Windows) are similarly tied to their (OEM) hardware and can't migrate. Adam Turner at The Age first pressed Microsoft for clarification over what its "single PC" constraint actually meant, and noted the newly aligned OEM and retail licenses.
It's difficult to see the wisdom in this change. It's not a big change, but it's not a nice one, either.
Retail sales make up a minority of the Office business. Microsoft doesn't habitually report the exact level of retail sales, but we can perhaps make estimates based on the information the company does provide.
The Microsoft Business Division (MBD), the reporting group within the company that includes Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Dynamics, and Lync, reported last quarter that 60 percent of its revenue is from multi-year subscriptions—Software Assurance plans. The remaining 40 percent is what Microsoft calls "transactional;" one-off purchases, encompassing both OEM preinstalls and boxed copies bought online or in bricks-and-mortar stores. | | | | |
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steve74
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Are we surprised?  Microsoft seem to be trying to push everyone to "upgrade" to Office 365 now. I recently bought the latest Mac version (Office 2011) for my new Macbook Pro, a sticker on the front said "Free upgrade to next version" - just register your serial number and they'll email you when the next version is released. Great, I thought - not often you get something for free from Microsoft. Got an email a couple of weeks later that offered me this upgrade - turns out the "free" upgrade is to Office 365 and that involves a monthly/yearly subscription after a trial period. Er, no thanks, I've paid nearly £90 for this version, if you think you're getting money out of me for the online version, forget it!
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They have been trying to get people on a subscription model for years but it still is a bad deal. £99 per year works out around £500 if you keep the machine for 5 years. Most get away with a cheap version and then they are free and clear for a number of years. So why sign up for a more expensive deal? I can see this pushing the public to free alternatives.
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big_D
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to be honest, I find the Office 365 deal very attractive. I tend to buy the new version when it is released, but that works out expensive, as I have multiple PCs.
I used to get the Action Pack, which was an annual subscription anf worked out to be good value for money, but I don't qualify anymore. I could go for an MSDN subsctiption, but they are cutting back drastically on the licemces there as well.
With 3 PCs, iMac, and MacBook Pro, the 5 licences would save me several hundred Euros that I would need to give out for new copies for my machines in order to stay current.
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l3v1ck
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I've stil got Office 97, 2000 and 2007 CD's/licenses at home. I see no reason to go Office 2013.
However I expect my wife might think differently. The new laptop we're getting doesn't have office. The 2007 license is used on my laptop, so that would leave her with Office 2000. Although she like that and hates the new ribbon thing, she want our son to get used to using recent software.
I may resort to buying 2010 or using open office.
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l3v1ck
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There's a four year Student 2013 licence on scan for under £60.
I've no idea how MS tell if you're a student. Maybe you need a .ac.uk email address?
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l3v1ck
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What sucks is that Scan don't say anything about that being a requirement on their website.
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Amnesia10
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Don't they have a cheap home user version? Office for Mac does. At the price it only has the core apps and sensibly priced. I bought a copy. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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jonbwfc
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Having used it, I can't honestly see why anyone would use office 2013 in preference to 2010, which I bet you can still get if you look around. 2013 is chuffing horrible.
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big_D
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In the cupboard I have Office 4.3, 95, 97, XP, 2007 and 2010.
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JJW009
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We upgraded to Office 2003 just last year.
That's not a typo.
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E. F. Benson
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I had Office X. pieWork suite came with my 2006 iMac, still using that 
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BigRedX
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I bought Office Mac 2011 last year for a very specific task, which then turned out to be do-able only on the Windows version of Office.
Most of the time, nothing I get sent in Office really requires me to have the Microsoft version, I doubt I'll bother buying it again.
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leeds_manc
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Best version, I only use Open Office now you can't get hold of 2003.
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