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$80 subscription for Office 365 is too expensive for someone on a student's budget.
Seems pretty in-budget for a student.
$80 subscription for Office 365 is too expensive for someone on a student's budget.
Sorry, $80 for a four year subscription? Because that's what the Office 365 for Students deal is. That's $1.66 per month. Seems pretty in-budget for a student.
I wish Microsoft had decided to separate into several companies way back during the US v. Microsoft case. Office is actually a great product and Excel in particular still is the best available spreadsheet around. But Office has been hamstrung by being part of Microsoft; in particular by not supporting iOS or Android or online (until being forced to). If Office was its own company, I'm sure these platforms would have…
Absolutely. I have nothing to go on other than gut feelings for this, but it almost seems like if Microsoft had been broken up, all of the individual companies that would have been created would not only have ended up shipping better products, but may have been collectively even more profitable than Microsoft is now. Usually when a company offers a wide range of products that work especially well together, that's a g…
The cash helped make that possible.
On the downside, it's a shame the Microsoft Courier tablet was killed just before the iPad was released.
I wish Microsoft had decided to separate into several companies way back during the US v. Microsoft case. Office is actually a great product and Excel in particular still is the best available spreadsheet around. But Office has been hamstrung by being part of Microsoft; in particular by not supporting iOS or Android or online (until being forced to). If Office was its own company, I'm sure these platforms would have…
Very true. A similar case would be Adobe, who relied way too much on flash for so much time and started working on html5 tools only once iOS got entranched.
I wish Microsoft had decided to separate into several companies way back during the US v. Microsoft case. Office is actually a great product and Excel in particular still is the best available spreadsheet around. But Office has been hamstrung by being part of Microsoft; in particular by not supporting iOS or Android or online (until being forced to). If Office was its own company, I'm sure these platforms would have…
Office would do well without the rest of Microsoft (in fact possibly even better), but I'm not sure the rest of Microsoft would do well without Office. Office is a huge stable cash-cow that allows Microsoft to experiment on things like Kinect without having to worry if they aren't always profitable. You could argue the same thing with Apple and iOS. iOS would be better if it weren't so tied to OS X, but I'm not sure…
Apple and iOS isnt really comparable because the integration between the two is possible only because they are both from the same vendor. In that particular example, its adds value to both products, which is the opposite of the dynamic between Office and Windows, where the value is decreased.
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Absolutely. I have nothing to go on other than gut feelings for this, but it almost seems like if Microsoft had been broken up, all of the individual companies that would have been created would not only have ended up shipping better products, but may have been collectively even more profitable than Microsoft is now. Usually when a company offers a wide range of products that work especially well together, that's a g…
Would Xbox even exist? The Xbox 360 certainly wouldn't, because the 'Entertainment' division was subsidised by the rest of Microsoft. It was only 3 years into the war against Wii and PS3 that the Xbox 360 started to win and then Kinect blew all else out of the water. The cash helped make that possible. On the downside, it's a shame the Microsoft Courier tablet was killed just before the iPad was released.
They dont innovate, they attack and poison the well. I really dont understand why stockholders put up with jungle boy acting out like that. I whish Nicrosoft would just focus on its wn products and profitability, but i doubt Ballmer will ever be a big enough man to take that road.