[dsukhin]

For those unaware, if you want to use the latest Office Suite (2024), but don’t want to pay a monthly fee, Microsoft still offers a one time purchase [0] for $149.99 which is now cheaper than the (new) one year subscription (with no cloud storage of course).

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...

[int_19h]

One catch though is that this can only be installed on a single PC (and there's online activation, so it will actually check). So if you have a desktop and a laptop, you'll have to pay double, whereas subscription covers up to 5 devices, if I remember correctly.

[gabeio]

5 years down the road that deal looks a lot less worth it.

[brewdad]

Depends if you use the cloud storage. 6TB of cloud storage for $99/yr with the standard Office Suite thrown in isn't too bad.

[wil421]

I use it as an offsite backup for my photos. It took an eternity to upload but the delta uploads are not too bad.

[sureIy]

But also you'll have 5-year-old software that doesn't run on Windows 13.

[KetoManx64]

If I can run Office 2010 on Windows 11, I'll probably be fine with it on Windows 13

[kibibu]

Does this have the crippled version of AutoSave that only works with OneDrive?

[darknavi]

I found a way to disable that deep in settings.

[mthoms]

Please share!

[darknavi]

Sorry that I didn't include them!

In Word, File -> Options -> Save. The setting I found is "Don't show the Backstage when opening or saving files with keyboard shortcuts".

[netsharc]

Wow, that really is shit.

Hey Microsoft PMs, here's a feature for you: "Want to save to disk? Add the 'Save to Disk'-subscription, just $2/month!".

[Andrew6rant]

Woah woah woah, unlimited saves for only $2/mo?

Clearly, we need an ad-supported $0.99/mo tier with a limit of 50,000 saves per quarter (additional saves $0.01 each).

$2.99/mo is what gives you unlimited* saves to disk.

* C:// drive only. External drives are limited to 10,000 saves per period)

Contact sales for enterprise pricing

[carbocation]

> For non-commercial use

What the hell

[lolinder]

That's for the Home version, the business one is here (and $100 more expensive):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...

[bonestamp2]

And it includes Outlook.

[globular-toast]

It's not free software. What did you expect? There's a reason the Free Software Foundation added freedom 0:

> The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose

[thebruce87m]

Clippy AI: Hey, it looks like you’re writing a letter FOR WORK >:-(

[climb_stealth]

Thanks for linking it! Looks like it is just a license for a single machine. So that still hurts :/