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Which is really funny because most (all?) students get 365 free from their school already
Ok, so students can select either:
Yeah, nah Microsoft, nah.
Every time some colleague uses office and I'm forced to hop on as well it feels like my whole workflow just grinds to a halt and there's nothing that I'd want more than to throw my laptop out the window... There's not much else that I hate with the same passion like ms Office. "Admittedly excellent"? What?
What? Apple just drops devices at some point.
You must have a pretty specific workflow that fails so completely using Microsoft Office.
The second point is that as has already been mentioned, you can keep using the computer after the software support ends, that doesn't really work for most subscription software.
My company provides latex templates, so I'm using those. They also provide a gitlab instance, so working collaboratively is easy and reliable.
Fair point.
Regarding the second point… the offer from Microsoft is good for 12 months. The Apple software does not expire. Sure, the support will end in about 7 years, but that’s a completely different story
That was exactly my point.
The subscriptions are only available to new subscribers.