[rlu]

It's somewhat expensive at first sight for an individual, but it's a pretty phenomenal pricing for a family. Lets you buy 1 "license" and it works on up to 5 Macs/PCs and 5 mobile devices/tablets.

2 parents + 3 kids? Not bad. Not sure what the stance is on doing some "framily" thing where you share it with friends.

[tallanvor]

It's not even that bad for many individuals - let's face it, many of us have more than one computer, so being able to install Office on all of them is quite nice. And I have to admit, the SkyDrive, er, OneDrive integration works quite well - I'm able to update documents on one of my computers and then not have to worry at all about getting the latest changes to another computer, my phone, or tablet.

And even the 60 Skype minutes has come in handy when I've needed to make international calls.

I'm still not a huge fan of applications I'm used to buying once every few years moving to the subscription model, but admittedly there are some positives with what MS has done here.