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Microsoft Will Sell Office, Windows as a Bundle (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on from the convergence dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft announced plans on Monday to start offering Windows 10 and Office together in a single subscription service. Microsoft 365, as the service is known, will also include security and management tools and come in two flavors: one for large enterprises and the other for small-to-medium businesses. The company didn't say how much it will charge for either version of the service.

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  1. I still use Office 2010 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I still use Office 2010. After that version, Microsoft ended the contract that it had with the local company that provided the proofreading tools for Brazilian Portuguese and decided to build a new grammar/style checker from scratch, which as of Word 2016 still is extremely inferior. It has fewer options and misses obvious grammar mistakes. Nevertheless, the LibreOffice checker is even worse.

    1. Re:I still use Office 2010 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      if you find a pattern that libreoffice is failing to catch, please submit a bug report with as much detail as possible. You too can be a valuable contributor to libreOffice. In fact, I don't think we have any native speakers on the team, so support will only come with help from you and people like you.

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. Why the least informative link? by ET3D · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the announcement at Microsoft. It's for enterprises only, and I think MS previously offered Windows as a sub for them, so bundling Office makes sense.

  4. So much for the 90s/2000s competition probe then by mccalli · · Score: 4, Informative

    Which recommended explicitly to split MS into two companies - an OS company and an applications company- specifically to stop this kind of bundling from taking place and disadvantaging competitive companies.

    Oh well.

  5. Re:Not just no. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    >What is it you do professionally on a mac that can't also be done on Windows?

    Use UNIX.