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An Office-Watch.com reader asks about the emails promoting Outlook.com that are heading his way. All of a sudden, I’m getting emails asking me to sign up for “Outlook.com”. Do you know what that is all about? I already subscribe to “Office 365” following the purchase and update information that you folks provide to keep my […]
Amazon US has a deal bundling current US Tax software with Office 365 Home or Personal. It’s just an example of how Office 365 bundle offers should be checked closely. Office Watch has always been wary of any deals combining Office software with other products. Too often the combined price isn’t great, the additional product […]
Microsoft has an unstated policy of degrading perpetual licence Office in favor of the annual payments for Office 365. This is happening in lots of little steps. Nothing major to alienate customers but enough incremental changes to shift the balance in favor of annual Office 365 payments. It’s a form of nudge theory applied to […]
Many of the Office 2019 assumptions and rumors don’t account for the changed business model at Microsoft. Redmond’s dirty little secret is they’d prefer not selling Office 2019 at all. Office 2019 is the ‘perpetual licence’, single payment, fixed feature version of Microsoft Office. Microsoft will release it later this year but the date hasn’t […]
