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Microsoft Removes Device Install Limits For Office 365 Subscribers (engadget.com)
Starting October 2nd, Office 365 Home users will no longer be restricted to 10 devices across five users and Personal subscribers will no longer have a limit of one computer and one tablet. The catch is that you can only stay signed in on five devices at once. Engadget reports: Meanwhile, Home users can let another person use the productivity suite through their account, with Microsoft bumping up the number of licenses per subscriber from five to six. Each user has access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, along with 1TB of individual storage. Microsoft is also integrating Home subscriptions with its family service, so you can automatically share your Office 365 plan with people you've set up as family members. Elsewhere, you'll manage your subscription from within your Microsoft account settings from now on.
If you go into the device settings -> accounts -> manage -> your account -> will open your hotmail/outlook account and you can unassign WIndows 10 Pro from 1 device to another.
It is a great way to save money.
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The year of office on the desktop
Tell me you reddit trolls aren't using a subscription based insecure cloud target for basic desktop WP/SS software, who voted this crapvertisement in?
So when offline = office in limited mode?
Go back to copy-pasting longPHPcodes, dipshit.
They're just trying to move people off legacy office. 5 years from now this will go away and it'll be one license one user.
Microsoft should have done this all along. Since it's subscription based, it really no longer benefits them to try to limit how many machines a person has the software installed on. It benefits them more if it exists "anywhere and everywhere possible", so the user will be more likely to maintain a paid subscription because it's "so useful".
Imagine if some service like Netflix did this, saying you couldn't keep the Netflix software on more than X number of devices at a time without paying for a second subscription? How would that make any sense?
Remove Premium Outlook, claim to reinstate it in Office365 with a key feature stripped. Thanks Microsoft.
Does that mean that you can install full Office 365 on 20 devices, and so long as you save locally and not on the cloud, you can use them? Or will some of the devices be in limited functionality mode, only allowing viewing, not even local save?
So the small license packs will have a per-user model, instead of the per device/user model that mega-corporations prefer. A per-user model allows a person to move from multiple SOHO devices to multiple home devices on the one subscription.
I would bet a nickel that parent and grandparent are the same anon.
I have a license on macos which is going to go waste when Mojave is released - 32 bit vs 64 bit - as I have no plans or need to upgrade thanks to LibreOffice.
Even got my accountant to switch. Those guys are wedded to Excel.
I fart in Bill Gates' general direction. And shit on his desk. And by the way, Fuck the Zuck.
GNUCash and LibreOffice. But I keep 1 local install Microsoft office lic and have 1 o365 premium account. Why? because my clients are not like me and they are Microsoft users. Their remote servers are all Linux but in their offices they are Microsoft based.
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Just the way of things
Just my 2 cents
How am I supposed to get any work done if I can only stay signed into Office 365 on five devices at once?
You are welcome on my lawn.
....any idiot still using Microsoft software absolutely deserves all of these levels of bullshit - and more on the way! - that you are dealing with. FFS, why would any person, much less organization submit to this?!? Is Outlook THAT fucking awesome that you'll give up your IT life/control? Is there any aspect of AD that justifies ridiculous reboots in mid-presentation/whatever-I'm-running-at-the-time?
Christ on a candle! What does it take for you to at least START breaking your chains of slavery?!?!
vNexflix is live vs offline (office apps) now you want to be able to use office in places with no network?? Now if 365 comes with free roaming + free LTE and free airline WIFI then I may buy it.
My good old copy of Office 2007 does everything I need. I like buying things once, not renting them as a service.
A better headline would be as given in the subject. I honestly don't see the need for Office at all. And anyone who sniffs the software-as-a-service glue ought to be placed in the same category as those who refuse to vaccinate their kids. Both groups are caving to pressure from those who do not have their best interests in mind, pandering to a concept of dubious value, and creating a worse environment for everyone else.
Not enough people jumped onto the subscription bandwagon, so we're going to make it look more attractive for a while in order to lure them in.
Later on, when everyone is safely in pocket, we'll crank up the restrictions again and force everyone to buy more subscriptions because it'll be easier than trying to figure out how to downgrade everyone to a version they can actually own.
You can download Netflix content to some devices for offline viewing. I've not used that but I have used Amazon Prime's offline viewing and if I recall you have to 'refresh' once a month or so. I doubt anyone who cares about Office 365 goes more than a month without connecting to the internet, if they wanted to do something similar.
no.
such clients typically cannot install software on the computers they use without jumping through a thousand hoops. even "installerless" software requires preauthorisation.
Excel VBA is more like a loophole that lets them order bespoke software without having to get pre approval from IT.
but without an editor and very (still to) limited debugging and error logging.
its definately getting there. but i had a check on js after posting and still found literally nothing but unanswered questions, python seems to have slightly better support but still includes warnings that things silently fail, plus requires additional setup on the user side which completely defeats the point.
Yeah, now if Amazon could do the same thing with Kindle.
freaking office product? REALLY? Force you to ID yourself to use a freaking office product? REALLY? Oh, spy on you on top of it?
Use Libre Office
It's a great question.
Every time I've tried pushing Libre to staff in 5 minutes they've come back with something that doesn't format right.
When it costs $100/hr for each of you to be distracted, the cost of the office license becomes insignificant.
Governments should have forced MS to FULLY open their file format spec, but Billy Gates being the evil prick forces us to pay the MS tax because we all have other more pressing issues to solve.
This is 2018 and that document most likely does not come from Microsoft Office...Could come from a whole host of Phone Apps, or Google's Office or Apples Office, or even a Different version of Office...It could even have a different printer attached. As someone who works in multiple environments ironically Libreoffice is my goto for compatibility, and when I send a document back its from Libreoffice, and even then I am always on the latest version.
without having to get pre approval from IT.
So, not enough cocaine and hookers?
Have gnu, will travel.
Office Libre works just fine for me thank you. Also OpenOffice, but my preference is notepad.exe
They're available from the canteen.
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