[mortenjorck]

Office 365 is downright cheap compared to Adobe's subscription offerings: $600/year or $75/month.

Granted, that gives you access to a huge suite of applications. But if you only need, say, three of them, you can subscribe individually, which at $20/app/month, would cost you a mere $720/year!

And unlike Office, which is still available as a desktop app without a subscription, Adobe has discontinued its entire non-subscription-based suite.

[chrisBob]

Office 365 may be a bargain for some people, but that is much more than I have been sending to MS over the last few years. As a student this will make me start paying more and its looking a lot more like a cell phone bill than a one time purchase.

[AdamTReineke]

Students can get a 4 year subscription for $80. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/university/