MS Office is increasingly only sold as part of “Microsoft 365” which already involves paying for cloud storage and copilot and the like.
20 seconds of googling gets me the pricing page for their family (which I think is the same as single seat personal?) plan which is 130 USD a year for
Foroneto six people
Sign into five devices at once
Use on PCs, Macs, phones, and tablets
Up to6 TB of secure cloud storage (1 TB per person)
Productivity apps with Microsoft CopilotFootnote1
Identity,Footnote2 data, and device security
Ad-free secure email
There may still be some corner case “just MS office” releases that are targeted towards legacy machines in certain regions. But if you try to buy MS Office for whatever reason, that is what you are gonna get.
Not sure on the policy for this (and too lazy to read through the TOS) but the usual standard is:
You have read only access to your data in some form for N months. Sometimes individual, sometimes grabbing the whole dump. If you haven’t renewed your license within N months, that data is deleted (but not really).
Did I miss something in that article? I see no mention of how to disable this, pricing for cloud storage, etc.
MS Office is increasingly only sold as part of “Microsoft 365” which already involves paying for cloud storage and copilot and the like.
20 seconds of googling gets me the pricing page for their family (which I think is the same as single seat personal?) plan which is 130 USD a year for
For one to six people Sign in to five devices at once Use on PCs, Macs, phones, and tablets Up to 6 TB of secure cloud storage (1 TB per person) Productivity apps with Microsoft CopilotFootnote1 Identity,Footnote2 data, and device security Ad-free secure emailThere may still be some corner case “just MS office” releases that are targeted towards legacy machines in certain regions. But if you try to buy MS Office for whatever reason, that is what you are gonna get.
I wonder what happens to your documents if you stop paying for office.
Not sure on the policy for this (and too lazy to read through the TOS) but the usual standard is:
You have read only access to your data in some form for N months. Sometimes individual, sometimes grabbing the whole dump. If you haven’t renewed your license within N months, that data is deleted (but not really).