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[Trevor Johnson]

I think the right to use the products (Destktop Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.) only lasts while you are a student/employee.

From memory, MS 'checks' every so often to make sure you are still licensed. I have Office 365, which I can install on five PCs, multiple other devices, etc., through York University. However, rather than just being a bonus, they are an essential part of your ability to function, especially with so much online working at present. And who would actually volunteer to use Sharepoint or Teams unless they had to!

[Sam Spoons]

Office 365 is a subscription though not a one off licence purchase?

[Wonks]

You’re correct, Sam.

[Trevor Johnson]

Yes Sam, either monthly or yearly, although there is a one-off payment for Office Home & Student 2019. But you would be better of with Libre Office.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-microsoft-365-products

[Sam Spoons]

Yes, Open Office is great, being all Mac here these days I have Open Office. But OO Base is not so good, it appears, for relational databases, I have tried to recreate an Access invoice database I wrote a few years ago for my wife's ballet school and it crashed frequently so eventually I gave up. By the time the antique Win7 netbook we currently run it on dies we will have got over to an online billing system so we won't have any need for MS Office.

FWIW Access and Publisher are the only Microsoft apps I miss and, on a Mac, the subscription version of Office (i.e. Office 365) is the only way to get Access, Publisher has, AFAIK, never been available for OSX.

[John Stafford]

When I was an OU student I got MS Office free. That was 2017.

[Zukan]

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Ben

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