DEC-1982
Full time employment: Posting here.
I resisted the subscription for Office. Last purchase of Office was the student version in 2013 - with CD. Word, Excel, power point, etc all work just fine. (Son is running this.) I don't know what features they could add to make me upgrade. IIRC the price was under $100 for the student version. You can get a 1 key version of home and student office for $116 on amazon right now. My version is 2011... so I clearly don't feel the need to update if it still works. More and more I'm using google docs - which has the advantage of being free. Sheets = excel, docs = word, slides = power point. There is not that much difference between them so there was very little learning curve. And "free" is my favorite price.
I'm confused by the math... how does 3 years times $100 equal $230?
Just out of curiosity, why would people not use free OpenOffice.org software instead of paying Micro$oft? I have been using this for about 10 years.
I haven't used GoogleDocs but I imagine this product also meets the needs of most people.