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*.
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