Re: GuhNoo: World's Biggest Technical Leecher

On 4/11/2024 2:41 PM, Tyrone wrote:

On Apr 11, 2024 at 8:46:29 AM EDT, "DFS" <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
 

Note: it's payware, but I still consider MS Office the best software
value in history.  I won't accept ANY other office suite, free of cost
or not, because I KNOW they ALL pale in comparison to MSO.

 Only now is Office "the best software value in history" since you can get
Office Pro 2021 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher
and Access) for under $50. 20 years ago when Office was $500 it was not a good
value at all.

If you made money off it, $500 wasn't a bad deal.  Even back then, you could easily make that in 2 days.

Don't even get me started on the $100 per year for life Office 365.

I know.  I'll never pay for a software subscription, unless I make a lot of money off the app (like I used to with MS Office).
I'm still using Office 2003.  No need to upgrade just because.

Even Windows 11 can be had for around $30.

Or far less.  I recently got a valid Win11 Pro key (supposedly retail, not OEM) for $7 from Gamers Outlet.  I'm using it now.

MS is not making money on desktop software these days.

Of course MS is still making HUGE money on desktop software.
4 years ago MS had 258M paid Office seats.
And people and companies are buying a metric shitload of other MS code.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/export/
Looks like everything they released this century.  There are 2712 product/edition/release combinations.
Unfortunately, the clown that produces that file isn't smart enough to put a header row in - or they hid the labels - but the columns are:
Product
Edition
Release
SupportPolicy
StartDate
MainstreamDate
ExtendedEndDate
RetirementDate
ReleaseStartDate
ReleaseEndDate
DocsUrl

Now the money is all in Azure cloud services, which is
around 90% Linux.

link to this outrageous claim?