Well, well, [expletive deleted] well: “Microsoft has announced that the next subscription-free version of its Office suite will launch later this year. A commercial preview of Office LTSC 2024 will be available from next month, with a full launch scheduled for later in the year.” It’ll be on a five-year support plan, and Microsoft fairly clearly does not want to offer it. However, as somebody in comments over there notes: Microsoft wants even less to keep losing customers to free word processing programs*.
I wonder how much it’ll cost? It’ll probably be overpriced. But it still might be worth it.
Moe Lane
*As I’ve said before, I’m not interested in renting Microsoft 365 just so that I can publish books on a platform that won’t do one-tenth the business of Amazon. I might be an old fart and everything – honestly, even if I’m not one yet, I’m still kind of looking forward to it – but I’m an old fart with purchasing power, and if you put enough of us together, well, there’s money in it. Apps are lovely, but sometimes you want to have something that you own, and then not have to think about for the next ten years.