On 08/03/18 19:40, Martin wrote:


Do you have to have Microsoft Office? Incidentally you can't buy the current MS
Office, you have to pay a yearly amount to use it.

That's Office 365, the other beast.

They still have a full standard product line, but want you now to have
that last one expire rather faster.

"Office 2019 will not be receiving 10 years of support like most earlier
versions. It will receive the usual 5 years of mainstream support, but
will only get two years of extended support."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2019

OTOH MS are still maintaining
old versions of MS Office.

They'll give up on those as well.

The whole Windows OS platform is possibly coming to the end of its line
(except for the rental extensions), and I dare suggest from the above,
also Office. Where Microsoft is going to go tomorrow, is going to be
with something different - a completely new interface completely
incompatible with the past.

It'll be a bit

'Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore ...'

(Other Office Productivity Suites are available)

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Adrian C