SO, you're not liking the Office subscription price, thank your lucky stars you don't use Adobe CS.
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Microsoft's Office for iPad Team Discusses Ballmer's Role in Launch, Mac Synergy, and More
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LOL, Balmer probably paid that guy $3.7 million dollars to make that comment. When you're that rich, can you put a number on ensuring history looks upon you kindly? That number is probably at least $3.7 million dollars. Maybe even $3.8 million dollars.
Say what? Do you expect businesses to provide product without having some sort of revenue produced by it? Really? Would you offer your boss your time and effort for free? Like, you drive to work for free, then BAM, you expect to get paid for the time you put in.
CC is expensive but it is a powerful suite of creativity apps that its customers use to make a living. There is nothing else that comes close to what Adobe can offer its customers and they are priced accordingly.
Office on the other hand is competing against a bunch of free/low cost alternatives that can largely meet the needs of the vast majority of people. There are some people who need the power features of Excel and Word, but most people just use it because they don't know any differently (or their company doesn't know any differently).
It's amazing how much money Microsoft has been able to milk customers for over the years with Office.
People now seem to think .99 is what you should pay for an app which then has a lifetime of free updates as the developers expense.
I actually really love my CC subscription. But I'm the kind of person who uses tons of different software for my work, and love learning new software. Having everything they make at my disposal is awesome, and extra benefits like using Typekit on my sites make it worthwhile. Then bonuses come along like today getting Lightroom for iPad. I'm currently syncing 23,629 photos from my Lightroom Library to my Retina iPad Mini. It's incredible!
I'm assuming you're referring to Vista? Anyways, I'm sure this team who created the office iPad app isn't related to the OS team.
Since we were designing Office for iPad from a "blank slate" so to speak, we wanted to take the time to deliver the highest possible quality Office experience that is fully optimized for the iPad. A wise man once said, "Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right." That rings true for how we thought about it.Han-yi Shaw, Group Program Manager & Design Manager for Office for iPad
Wasn't that wise man Steve?
Wasn't that wise man Steve?
That's cheaper than paying $400 every 3 years to upgrade Office as in the past.
Wha?
The make a product. You need the product. They offer a reasonable price. You pay for the product.
How is that oversimplified? That's how most companies+consumers work.
If I were an Office user, I'd consider this a bonus to my existing setup, or a incentive to bring Office to my mobile devices. For the price, you get 20 gigs of One Drive, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Onenote, PowerPoint) to all your devices including desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone. You get to use it on 5 computers! You get Skype minutes on top if you use that.
Office costs more on the old model and you got less. What was it, $350 for upgrade pricing every 3 years when I new version came out? 3 years on the subscription model is $297. A little cheaper, and they give you a lot more PLUS you'll always have the latest version.
The ability to maintain formatting from desktop to iPad is the damn best feature IMO.
What's with all the crying and whining?
The problem is people were not upgrading every 3 years. So Microsoft decided it was time to effectively force everyone to upgrade every year with the subscription model. For some people it will work out cheaper if they were buying all the Office upgrades in the past (not many people did, and certainly not many businesses did either). For the majority of people it will cost them more money and make Microsoft more money - which is of course why Microsoft they have adopted the subscription model.
Now do I have any a problem with a company trying to milk customers for every penny they can get? Nope. If people think they need to pay for this, and do so, then congratulations to Microsoft for continuing to milk the Office cow for loads more money.
I'm just pointing out reasons why I'm not buying into it.
I solved my own problem by not using Office at all. I hope many other people reach a similar decision.
Just fell out of my chair laughing. Now my boss wants to speak to you.
Sorry Sam, I completely rolled you under the bus.
Just fell out of my chair laughing. Now my boss wants to speak to you.
Sorry Sam, I completely rolled you under the bus.
Worth it.
Bitter much? They are a company over all, how else do you expect them to make money? You don't really think iCloud or Google (Gmail, google doc etc...) is really "free" do you? There is nothing that is "free", if you don't like it you can use something else, if not write your own program.
Its kind of ironic in a way. People are always associating Apple with a walled garden you can't escape. Now with software subscriptions like Microsoft and Adobe its kind of doing it too.
In fact talking with a friend who's a Microsoft partner some of the packages offered make it hard to downgrade. You have to delete and make a new account. Something that a Microsoft representative admitted it was a way to deter people from going to a cheaper package.
In fact talking with a friend who's a Microsoft partner some of the packages offered make it hard to downgrade. You have to delete and make a new account. Something that a Microsoft representative admitted it was a way to deter people from going to a cheaper package.
Let's see how 'free' that iWork suite looks the next time Apple drop a non-backwards compatible, non-optional update that won't run on half your hardware.
Did people seriously do that ?!
The last time I paid for Office was ~ 7 years ago, and it only cost me ~$100
Did people seriously do that ?!
The last time I paid for Office was ~ 7 years ago, and it only cost me ~$100
Yeah, I did that once. The hologram on the disk didn't look nearly so good though.