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Joan, have you looked at what is included in the Office 365 subscription?
If you need a single license for Office and none of the extended features, Office 2019 is probably a better choice. You pay more up front ($250 USD) but can be used for years. Unless Microsoft comes up with some type of immensely useful new feature, there's probably no real need to upgrade again until 2019 goes out of support in 7 years.
However, the 365 Home version includes licenses for 5 people on PC/Mac, phone, and tablet. Plus it includes 1 TB of OneDrive space/person + Skype. If you need multiple licenses, it's the clear winner.
If you buy any extended online storage (DropBox premium, etc) then 365 is also the winner, as the prices for storage are roughly the same cost as 365 ... and it includes MS Office.
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Word 97 - still works for me - I have a lot of old documents written using Word 6.0 (DOS) or Word for Windows, works, no problem, no ribbon, all the hot keys stay where I put them.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I prefer Office 20?? for personal use but have Office 365 because the monthly pricing, a family licensing option and integration with my server, laptop and phone makes life easier. Biggest factor is the price. Can you image the cost for yourself, wife and kids if you were using Office 2019 on all the devices at home not to mention software updates.
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I use the Chinese WPS Office Suite...
It is far superior to Libre Office and it mimics Microsoft Office beautifully. And it is far more affordable...
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Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I use 365 Home at home. Five users for $100/year means $20/user/year. How many years at $20/year would it take to pay off a 2019 license?
Keep in mind, I've always been anti-subscription because of not wanting my software to expire. I just couldn't make that argument with the 365 Home pricing. The price was too reasonable. The Adobe stuff, on the other hand, is a totally unreasonable subscription.
I actually go looking for an Office/365 "gift card" around Christmastime every year when they go on sale for $80. That brings it down to $16/user/year.
I haven't analyzed the business/enterprise/education offerings. All I know when it comes to those is that Microsoft is having a whole lot of success with them. So presumably other business people have done their math and decided its the way to go.
Apart from the reliable revenue stream, there is another reason for Microsoft to prefer users be on 365. Fewer customer support headaches involving users who have old, but still supported, versions of Office. Every software developers will readily acknowledge they hate getting bogged down supporting old versions of software.
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Office 2019. I prefer one payment only and to deal with my own machine.
I've been happily using Softmaker Free Office for a long time already, but I need to work with some macros and Power BI next year.
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The Office 365 subscription is so cheap and comes with so many nice features that I honestly don't even know how this is a debate anymore TBH.
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My business has Office 365. We have 7 people, and having OneDrive and SharePoint Online free us from having to store anything work-related on the laptops. I use my Surface when going with customers, so it's a bliss just click and show the presentation from SharePoint Online. We even share sites with customers, who not necessarily have O365, and they can download the project files, and upload their own. Skype for business gets the job done on the videoconference front, all our OneNotes are stored and shared through SharePoint, and we even use Planner for some projects that need more of a loose control (otherwise, we use Project). Half of our operation is in O365, the other half is in Visual Studio Online.
So, having Office to update every year or so is really an added bonus for us, not the main reason we pay for O365.
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Office 365. The subscription is very reasonably priced and I can install it on a total of 15 devices (5 computers, 5 phones, 5 tablets) and have access to my documents everywhere. Plus, Outlook comes along in the bundle, so no more backing up PST files and moving them from computer to computer when traveling (I HATE web-based email!). The apps are up to date and I do get all that OneDrive storage PLUS more email storage than I can ever imagine using.
It's made my life simpler.
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I've been on 365 now for years. All five licenses are being used, 4 work and 1 personal. I mostly only use Outlook/Excel/Word pieces. Even though it includes Access, I still prefer working in Access 2002 for query building.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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My choice was simple...
If for some reason I am out of a job for a long time and I need to cut back on everything then what happens when I 'turn off' the word processor? For that matter what happens if I turn off the internet?
I don't want the answer to either of those to be 'oops now what...'.
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As a public service announcement. DO NOT upgrade to this particular version. I don't know what happened at google, until now they were handling it relatively well, but this update will break your projects without a fall back or restore. You have been warned.
They buy shoes, then they wear them! They make them sound old! Dairy! Dairy!
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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thanks 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Could you please explain this "Break your projects". What happens exactly?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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It downloads some libraries, it rewrites some generated project files and then it throws more than 100 error messages dumped in a log. None of which are helpful in any way. I restored my projects from archived zips. Thankfully the studio allows you to skip the "upgrade".
They buy shoes, then they wear them! They make them sound old! Dairy! Dairy!
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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What world do they live in?
It certainly doesn't resemble the one I live in. Funny that, as I use and love Visual Studio and SQL Server and C#/F#/.NET. And yet the fragments I watched, about Azure, AI / MI, even Visual Studio Live Share, it's all stuff I don't care about. And Nadella's keynote address was a "WTF is he going off on?" moment. A repeated moment though -- whenever he talks, I have a "WTF is he talking about" experience.
I feel so disconnected from Redmond. 
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well you know that saying "sell ice to the Eskimo's"
nads is going for one better: sell sh*t to cows.
... see all the dopey smiley git's in attendance whenever he talks, I feel sorry for comparing them to cows; sorry for the cows that is.)
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Marc Clifton wrote: I have a "WTF is he talking about" experience.
They do seem to live in their own little bubble.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Is it "bubble memory" when you can't recall a failed approach? 
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Eric Lynch wrote: Is it "bubble memory" when you can't recall a failed approach?
More like bobble head memory...
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Isn't that when you waver back and forth between two inconsistent memories?
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Eric Lynch wrote: Isn't that when you waver back and forth between two inconsistent memories?
LOL, that is standard Microsoft Operations.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Its...Flash...err, WPF...err, Silverlight...err, HTML 5...if only my head would stop wobbling...cue, another beer...yeah, that's better!
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I think you forgot a few dozen in there.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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