NO chance I am paying a subscription. Years ago maybe, but MS is about 2 years too late. Best bet is to give it away and build back your customer base.
And? Seriously, Office is a rather big, rather complicated, piece of software.
That is the problem here. Apples 30% cut is simply to much for microsoft to accept. Consumers don't like subscriptions for Software.
So in the end everybody loses. Apple by not getting much out of the subscription, the consumer by not getting an attractive price model, Microsoft by getting lower acceptance of their MS-Office. And in the end maybe a few people even don't buy/upgrade their iPad.
i had bought previous versions of office , i have zero intention of buying into a subscription based service.
So, under os10.9 i now run libre office and for the few occasions i really need word/excel i run it under a vm, no need to upgrade ever again, and when ms makes the format incompatible then the vm gets dumped and people will be asked to supply their documents in a more friendly format.
Software subscription (Office 365) no thanks... I would rather pay per app.
They might not have wants to dumb down Office for a touch environment...
They certainly will, however, Enterprises are not very eager to use Office 365, since they already have their own private or hybrid clouds with hosted Exchange or something else.Enterprise customers will welcome this. Isn't this is who Microsoft really cares about anyway?
A little too late? But really, what took so long?
Software subscription (Office 365) no thanks... I would rather pay per app.
A lot of pressure on Microsoft with Office. Will it live up to expectation? It looks like we will soon find out.
was interested until i read office 365
Sounds like you are trying incredibly hard not to be annoyed and saddened by the fact you broke an expensive piece of hardware.
Ach well, I didn't use it anyway...
Software subscription (Office 365) no thanks... I would rather pay per app.
Huh? No, it probably is real Office. They're just not going to give Apple a 30% cut they don't deserve.