Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium 1-Year Subscription $90 at Dell Business

How about Open Office for Free.

Kingsoft office maybe even better, also free. F MS.

MS is out of their freak'in minds. RIP MS...

I like Microsoft Software but I agree with all the above posts. I'm migrating toward Libre Office, which is also open source.

Or spend the exact same $99 and get Office 2010 (w/o Outlook and Access).

If you don't upgrade for 5 years you just saved yourself $400.

They don't rest until they shove this down everyone's throat. Wait until they start selling their POS OS with a yearly subscription.

"Why sell it to them once when you can rent it to them and get paid forever?"

"Because they're not that stupid?"

"HA! Maybe a few of them, but the rest of the sheep will go for it. Trust me..."

I had to read this twice. Thanks MS, I needed a good laugh.

Actually not a bad deal for a small office. You can get 5 PC's activated and be up and running without a lot of IT headaches. In 4 years you will have paid for the license of only 2 PC's using Home and Office (The Pro is even more expensive) if you bought the CD version.

The people working at these offices are not going to learn a whole new system even if it is free. For home, yes, knock yourself out.

^ Yeah they might have to cut back on their tweets and facebook time to learn something.

Seems like paying hundreds now to put off the inevitable only works when it is someone else's money, and yet, the IT dept. might also like to use that money for something else.

On the other hand, "IF", ever it was the right time to invest in a full office, non-expiring license it is now, before they turn Office into something that works well only on a cell phone.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237373/Microsoft_retreats_from_Office_2013_restrictive_licensing

Computerworld - Microsoft today backpedaled from a sweeping change in its licensing for retail copies of Office 2013, saying that customers now have the right to move the software from one machine to another.

"We received customer feedback that they wanted this flexibility, and we thought this was reasonable, just and fair," said Jevon Fark, senior marketing manager with the Office team, in an interview Tuesday. "We will honor these new terms starting this morning."

The revised policy lets customers who purchased a retail copy of Office 2013 -- the $140 Home & Student, $220 Home & Business or $400 Professional editions -- reassign the license to another PC they own or control.

That's a change from the end-user licensing agreement (EULA) that debuted with Office 2013: Out the gate, the "perpetual" licenses sold at retail -- those paid for once, with rights to use them forever -- were permanently tied to the first PC they were installed on.

Under the now-defunct licensing terms, customers were not allowed to delete Office 2013 on one machine, then install it on another, even if that second PC was a replacement for the first, which may have been lost, stolen, damaged or simply outworn its usefulness. The only exception was if a computer had conked out while under warranty.

That raised hackles, not only in comments responding to the Computerworld news story on the restrictive licensing, but also those appended to a Feb. 19 blog entry where Fark tried to explain the move.

"This is not fair," said a commenter identified as Helinton Roberto Dias on Fark's blog. "So I pay $399.99 for Office Pro[fessional], my computer is stolen or bricked. Guess what? I need to pay again to have Office in my new computer. No way."

Today's change was essentially a reversion to the licensing policy of Office…