“When it comes to pricing and licensing of Office software these days, Microsoft certainly isn’t making any new friends,” DailyTech reports.
“If you are a Mac user that relies on Office software for business or school, you will be paying more for the next upgrade you purchase,” DailyTech reports. “Microsoft has raised the price of Office for the Mac by as much as 17% and has stopped selling multi-license bundles for the productivity suite.”
DailyTech reports, “The price change puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as Office 2013 for Windows, despite the fact that it is much older software.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you haven’t already done so long ago, here’s yet another reason for Mac users to dump Microsoft’s bloated, over-priced mess and move to a modern alternative – now, if only Apple would give us one.
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Stupidity reigns at Micro$oft.
Thankfully, I stopped buying that years ago. Such bloat. It always needed updating and I was fearful it would crash when I was writing essays.
Absolutely irrelevant. This has no effect on me whatsoever.
Fix Numbers and I’ll wave goodbye to Office
Pages, Libre Office, Bean… etc.,
there are so many other alternatives – so who cares MacroSloth!
an UNnecessary evil, compounded with Windows 8 = wtf are they thinking?
M$ seems intent on committing suicide. I bought my LAST version of Office several years ago.
I should probably stay quiet, but, IMHO, stealing Office is a gilt-edged necessity, if, mind ya, you actually really need it.
As was the result of the blundering, Luddite bad attitude of the RIAA and MPAA obsessive abuse of their customers, Microsoft is without doubt INSPIRING the PIRACY of their products.
Piracy is bad. But shoving a finger in the overlord eye of our abusive Corporate Oligarchy is GOOD. Get to it kids. 😀
#MicrosoftSuicide
Meanwhile Google Apps is free to use. Our school system (Fairfax County Virginia, with 160,000 students) has made it available to all grade levels. In a few years, a whole generation will have been raised free from MS Office. If you still own MSFT, dump it now.
Google is also the other evil. However, Google Apps is free and they didn’t steal this app system from anybody.
Take that Microsoft.
the ‘free’ price tag has far, far, too high a cost. Only that of every shred of of information you possess. So go ahead, sell your very soul for a ‘free’ word processor.
I’ll stick with Pages on my local HD thank you very much.
Do a little test:
– Create a web page on a web server you have access to, but don’t link to it from anything so the web crawlers won’t find it.
– Watch the server access logs for a few days to confirm that no one is visiting that web page.
– Now create a document or spreadsheet on Google Docs and put a link to that web page in there, but don’t tell anyone about your Google document.
– Resume watching the server logs.
• I predict it’ll be about a week or less before you see GoogleBot show up in your server logs as accessing that page.
– If my prediction comes true for you, think twice about what kind of information you put in or through any “free” service from the big providers.
Please do that test and report back.
Another little test:
Create a simple little doc -some text, some different fonts. Nothing fancy. Do it in TextEdit, MS Word, your favorite alternative word processor. (I used Bean) Save it as an RTF file. (RTF is a simple, light weight document file format.)
Open those RTF files in a straight text editor. MS Word will manage to horribly bloat the RTF file, compared to the alternatives I’ve tried it against. File was more several time larger than it had to be – lots of extra unnecessary cruft inserted in the file.
… like the ad running on the TV pushing the Microsoft “offer” of using the same license for up to 5 devices….
Guess we’ll just have to stick with our tired ol’ Macs running the same app purchase on every device we own (together with free updates [whatever next?]), its a tough world out there. I don’t know how we cope, I really don’t.
I wonder why it took so long to notice? 😉
If there every was a case for a class action anti-trust case, this is one of the best.
Where are the Lawyers when you need them? Do We have to rent an Ambulance and cruise around town to find them?
We would be less upset if Apple or some 3rd party offered a realistic Mac-native alternative to Excel.
Office 2004 will remain on our Macs for a long time to come — not because it’s perfect, but because it’s still the most capable. The reason Numbers and Pages are so cheap is because they are amateur-level programs.
Only a Cretin is still using Microsoft Office.
Someday when you get out of grade school, Danox, you will understand. Until then, enjoy your mindless video games.
This far into the computer age and you can’t write, design or layout a text file without Microcrap and Ribbons. You are a Cretin.
My animus towards all things Microsoftian has just increased by 17% – and that’s on a comparatively mild day.
What’s Office?
=:~)
Finally a brilliant move by Microsoft. Go where the flow is moving and charge more for a product they can’t get anywhere else. Office for iPad will only help them as well. If they can’t sell the hardware get the software on the devices that are selling.
That is why Sony & Nintendo are missing the boat. Everyone wants to have the exclusive device. Go where the devices are at. Some jealous companies have made some really boneheaded decisions when they could have actually been making money in the process. Could you imagine how much money Sony could have made already with Gran Turismo for iOS or Nintendo with Mario for iOS? :-O
Through a work deal, I was able to buy MS Office 2011 three licence bundle for $15. Of course I was supposed to delete the software when I left the company, but they didn’t follow that up and I still use it… occasionally 😉
I tend to use iWork for most things now though. Apple does need to pull their finger out and update it, add a new version of iWeb plus include FileMaker.
Why is FileMaker a separate Apple owned company anyway?
FASTER, MICROSOFT! KILL! KILL! Your user base!
Way to go. Anything that accelerates the end of the Microsoft induced Computer Dark Age is just fine with me. 😆