[jasomill]

Careful what you wish for. Microsoft's "frictionless ways to buy online" always seem to involve more restrictive, less comprehensible licensing. I'd love to see Microsoft move to Apple's simplified model for non-volume licensing: one license = your choice of

  1. all users on all devices you own or control for personal, non-commercial use.
  2. all users on a single device for commercial use.
  3. one named user on all devices for commercial use.

C.f., e.g., Mac Office, where it looks like the only (non-subscription) option for individual, commercial use on multiple devices going forward is a $220 license per device, with no upgrade or multipack pricing, and moves towards electronic delivery at MSRP rather than (frequently discounted) retail sales of packaged product. Net result: an Office license I can get for $150 today will cost $440 next year.