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Subject: Re: GuhNoo: World's Biggest Technical Leecher
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On 4/11/2024 2:41 PM, Tyrone wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2024 at 8:46:29 AM EDT, "DFS" <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
> 
>> Note: it's payware, but I still consider MS Office the best software
>> value in history.  I won't accept ANY other office suite, free of cost
>> or not, because I KNOW they ALL pale in comparison to MSO.
> 
> Only now is Office "the best software value in history" since you can get
> Office Pro 2021 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher
> and Access) for under $50. 20 years ago when Office was $500 it was not a good
> value at all.

If you made money off it, $500 wasn't a bad deal.  Even back then, you 
could easily make that in 2 days.



> Don't even get me started on the $100 per year for life Office 365.

I know.  I'll never pay for a software subscription, unless I make a lot 
of money off the app (like I used to with MS Office).

I'm still using Office 2003.  No need to upgrade just because.


> Even Windows 11 can be had for around $30. 

Or far less.  I recently got a valid Win11 Pro key (supposedly retail, 
not OEM) for $7 from Gamers Outlet.  I'm using it now.



> MS is not making money on desktop software these days.

Of course MS is still making HUGE money on desktop software.

4 years ago MS had 258M paid Office seats.

And people and companies are buying a metric shitload of other MS code.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/export/

Looks like everything they released this century.  There are 2712 
product/edition/release combinations.

Unfortunately, the clown that produces that file isn't smart enough to 
put a header row in - or they hid the labels - but the columns are:

Product	
Edition	
Release	
SupportPolicy	
StartDate	
MainstreamDate	
ExtendedEndDate	
RetirementDate	
ReleaseStartDate	
ReleaseEndDate	
DocsUrl





> Now the money is all in Azure cloud services, which is
> around 90% Linux.

link to this outrageous claim?