Don't understand why people buy an Office subscription. With the release of ver 2021, ver 2019 can be bought very cheap
Last year, I bought 2 Office 2019 licenses, one Home Business 2019 Retail (US$ 60) and one Home Student 2019 Retail US$ 35)
My Reason: OneDrive, 6TB of total space.
I buy an office subscription because it comes with OneDrive. I love having cloud storage, and for the regularly price of $99 a year, I get 6 accounts, all of which get 1TB each. I have 4 people in my immediate family. I give one subscription to my dad, and can share one with a friend. If we split it up, $99/6 is $16.50 per person a year. "IF", you wanted 1TB of cloud space, can you find it anywhere for $16.50 for a year?????
Now, the above perfectly satisfies me for the $99 a spent for a year. But I can also, if I want to, install Microsoft office on any/all of my machines. And since my daughter and I also have Mac's in addition to Windows machines, we have access to both the Mac versions and the PC versions.
I don't have to deal with providing credit card details to any shady license sellers that are most likely selling volume license keys that may or may not work, continue to work, or be able to move to another machine/device. I get the full version of the office suite, rather than the Home or Office version....so if I have a need for the other applications, I have access to them. And I always have the latest versions of the software and have no need to purchase additional licenses for new versions.
And when I get to a point where i don't want Microsoft Office, I can cancel my subscription. If I would have bought licenses for all the software on all of my devices, and later decided i didn't want it, i ate the cost of those licenses. And legit licenses for Office Professional are like $450 a pop....which will pay for nearly 5 years of Office/Microsoft 365.
Oh yeah, and through work, I'm eligible for a 30% discount on Microsoft Office 365 for personal use, so my $99 a year subscription for 6 is actually just $69.99 year.
