[mediaman]

It's just the anti-corporate parade of users on HN who aren't used to paying for software. The majority of users here are wholly outside the target market.

There's a huge universe of companies more than willing to pay for these, and it's about time that MS take advantage of re-establishing Office as a cross-device dominant platform for the everyday office worker, rather than losing its edge as an office platform because of silly hardware / software politics internal to their own organization.

[rayiner]

> It's just the anti-corporate parade of users on HN who aren't used to paying for software.

No, they're in denial about the fact that they pay for their software, with their privacy, every minute they're on "free" services.

[yaeger]

>It's just the anti-corporate parade of users on HN who aren't used to paying for software.

Close. We aren't used to keep paying for software with no end in sight. Don't know about you but I subscribe to things I know I will be using regularly. Like daily. Guess were office software falls? Not under the daily usage at home.

Am I supposed to start writing word docs each week and mail them to my family just so I don't feel ripped of cause I am continuously paying for office?

Just wait until the next Windows costs 100 bucks a year. Cause that is where this is headed and apparently people don't seem to have any problem overpaying Microsoft for software.

[silverlake]

> Guess were office software falls? Not under the daily usage at home.

So don't buy it. I don't own Photoshop, but I don't go to Adobe threads and decry that they charge money for their products.