[abhinav22]

Most of us already bought office before in a perpetual license.

I’m not sure but I assume companies also had perpetual licenses of Office, so for them to fork over a consistent stream to Microsoft for O365 just to ensure they have the latest version with all the updates is quite expensive over the long run. But most people think in terms of the sticker cost of 1 year and Office 365 and other subscription apps look cheap in that light.

[scarface74]

The idea that “most” people aren’t subscribing to Office365 doesn’t jibe with MS’s financial reporting.

[whoopdedo]

Making it free for a year on new computers with automatic renewal is an easy way to inflate the subscription numbers. How many people are silently paying for something they don't use and aren't concerned about because it's "only" $10 a month?

[scarface74]

Enterprise sales dwarf consumer sells and the number of new PC sales have been going down each year.

https://www.skyhighnetworks.com/cloud-security-blog/7-charts...

[abhinav22]

Sorry I worded poorly - we don’t like it but we are stuck with it to some degree due to it being always updated (not sure if they even allow personal users now to buy a perpetual license?)