Office 365 expiré, je refuse de payer chaque année !
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Bonjour,
Je viens de recevoir un message, mon abonnement Office 365 doit être renouvelé.
Je suis donc une vache à lait, je vais payer chaque année ? Non, je refuse.
Quelle autre solution pour moi ?
Merci d'avance !
Je viens de recevoir un message, mon abonnement Office 365 doit être renouvelé.
Je suis donc une vache à lait, je vais payer chaque année ? Non, je refuse.
Quelle autre solution pour moi ?
Merci d'avance !
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Hello jod35, I sense some confusion in your statements and especially some misunderstanding, so I will try to clarify and explain how the new Office offers work.
On one hand, there is no obligation to use Microsoft Office; as some have already pointed out, you can easily use alternative suites such as OpenOffice or LibreOffice.
Now, let's discuss Office, where it's essential to distinguish between the offers to use Microsoft Office.
First of all, the Office 365 offer, which is a subscription with no commitment period, you can very well cancel it whenever you want, just go to https://www.office.com/, log in with your account email address, go to the "my account" section, scroll down to the "payment and billing" area, and click on "cancel subscription." The offer starts at €7/month or €69/year, cancellable at any time. But of course, if you choose to take it for a year and then cancel, your Office will work for 1 year, and similarly for the monthly payment, your Office will work for 1 month no matter if you canceled the day after your purchase.
Now, you have the classic option, which means purchasing Office 2013 with a CD if you want, but usable indefinitely, although with a limited support period that costs €139.
So what is the difference between the two, you might ask?
1) Office 365 gives you all the software in the Office suite, including Outlook 2013, Publisher, Access, OneNote, and of course Word, Excel, PowerPoint, 60 minutes of international credit on Skype, 1 TB (1000 GB) of online storage, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, the ability to install it on 5 machines that are not necessarily yours (for example, you have a desktop and a laptop; you can install Office on both. Now your wife also has a PC, and simply by adding her as a user with her email address, she can also download and use Office 2013, and if you have 2 children, add them as users, and they will also have access to the entire Office suite and also 1 TB of storage each. But that's for the offer at €10/month or €99/year. And one last thing, by taking the monthly subscription, you also get access to the latest versions of Office.
2) With Office 2013, it's simpler; it's €139 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote on a single PC with security and stability updates for 3 or 4 years, I believe. But you will still be able to use it after the official support ends.
So there you go, these are two very different offers that meet different needs. For example, people who work on multiple machines will immediately see the benefits of Office 365, like having all their files on the work computer and being able to work on them over the weekend on the home computer because everything is synchronized online with the 1000 GB of storage, and I can find all my documents at home. But also some people who only use Office occasionally or who want to use Office for a project with several people for 1 or 2 months since Office now allows collaboration in real-time on a document can just pay for 1-2 or 3 months, and as soon as I no longer need it, I cancel it.
Conversely, if I only use Word and Excel on a single machine and don’t need all these other services, nothing prevents me from buying my Office CD ONCE and that’s final.
It all depends on each person's needs and usage; if your needs are not advanced and you only have occasional use, just use a free office suite. There you go, I hope this helped clear things up for you.
On one hand, there is no obligation to use Microsoft Office; as some have already pointed out, you can easily use alternative suites such as OpenOffice or LibreOffice.
Now, let's discuss Office, where it's essential to distinguish between the offers to use Microsoft Office.
First of all, the Office 365 offer, which is a subscription with no commitment period, you can very well cancel it whenever you want, just go to https://www.office.com/, log in with your account email address, go to the "my account" section, scroll down to the "payment and billing" area, and click on "cancel subscription." The offer starts at €7/month or €69/year, cancellable at any time. But of course, if you choose to take it for a year and then cancel, your Office will work for 1 year, and similarly for the monthly payment, your Office will work for 1 month no matter if you canceled the day after your purchase.
Now, you have the classic option, which means purchasing Office 2013 with a CD if you want, but usable indefinitely, although with a limited support period that costs €139.
So what is the difference between the two, you might ask?
1) Office 365 gives you all the software in the Office suite, including Outlook 2013, Publisher, Access, OneNote, and of course Word, Excel, PowerPoint, 60 minutes of international credit on Skype, 1 TB (1000 GB) of online storage, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, the ability to install it on 5 machines that are not necessarily yours (for example, you have a desktop and a laptop; you can install Office on both. Now your wife also has a PC, and simply by adding her as a user with her email address, she can also download and use Office 2013, and if you have 2 children, add them as users, and they will also have access to the entire Office suite and also 1 TB of storage each. But that's for the offer at €10/month or €99/year. And one last thing, by taking the monthly subscription, you also get access to the latest versions of Office.
2) With Office 2013, it's simpler; it's €139 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote on a single PC with security and stability updates for 3 or 4 years, I believe. But you will still be able to use it after the official support ends.
So there you go, these are two very different offers that meet different needs. For example, people who work on multiple machines will immediately see the benefits of Office 365, like having all their files on the work computer and being able to work on them over the weekend on the home computer because everything is synchronized online with the 1000 GB of storage, and I can find all my documents at home. But also some people who only use Office occasionally or who want to use Office for a project with several people for 1 or 2 months since Office now allows collaboration in real-time on a document can just pay for 1-2 or 3 months, and as soon as I no longer need it, I cancel it.
Conversely, if I only use Word and Excel on a single machine and don’t need all these other services, nothing prevents me from buying my Office CD ONCE and that’s final.
It all depends on each person's needs and usage; if your needs are not advanced and you only have occasional use, just use a free office suite. There you go, I hope this helped clear things up for you.
As I mentioned to one of the people who replied to me, I will be satisfied with the Starter version; I absolutely do not need to have "the best" because I do not use all the options that are offered to me.
Thank you all for your responses,