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> “Microsoft may have led the way with the switch from 'purchase' of Microsoft Office Suite to 'leasing' where you had to pay for a yearly fee to maintain access.”

This never happened, you can buy office as a one time purchase now and get the version you paid for and nothing else, just like you could with office 1997, here:

Home version: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...

Business version: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/p/office-profe...

- “One-time purchase for 1 PC or Mac”

- “Classic 2021 versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint”