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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.
http://saveie6.com/
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.
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.
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 stupid do you need to be, to pay good money to Microsoft for something you can get for free?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
My good old copy of Office 2007 does everything I need. I like buying things once, not renting them as a service.
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.
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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.