[windows software] Office 365 ProPlus vs Perpetual Licensing

[Optimus]

Anyone got any thoughts on how https://redmondmag.com/articles/2017/04/20/office-365-proplus-policy-changes.aspx might affect us installing MS Office in the future? Should we be considering moving PCs to o365 ProPlus now?

 

We currently install Office 2016 Volume License and use KMS to activate on PCs.

 

Thoughts welcome!

[sted]

its inevitable everyone who can is moving to software as a service so you have to cough up every year rather than once every few so a steady income stream. I would also presume it makes piracy a bit harder and easier to trace. Its hard to guess what this will mean in 3.5 years time but i suspect from that article there will be an office 2018 (or whatever so you could probably install that and carry on as usual) and as a school you can get free access to the online versions of office (and locally installed variants). My guess is that long term you will either have to allow users to install apps from the windows store/store for business or install office online version and when they sign in to their ms account its licensed for that user

[mavhc]

Seems like Office 2016 perpetual costs 3x the yearly Office 2016 licence anyway, £23/year for pro, or £64 for one off cost. So buy 2016, get it for 10 years, with 5 of those years working with Office 365. Why would people ever pay yearly when it costs more? Or just pay £50 for Office standard, as no one uses Access

[Arthur]

We currently install Office 2016 Volume License and use KMS to activate on PCs.

It's a bit of a non-issue really. Just install Office 2019 when it's released later this year and carry on as normal.

 

www.edugeek.net/forums/news/188613-microsoft-announces-office-2019-a.html#post1613000

www.edugeek.net/forums/news/188613-microsoft-announces-office-2019-a.html#post1613024

 

You could switch to Office 365 ProPlus if you want to get new Office features more regularly, but there isn't any need to if you still have the option of installing Office 2019 with your volume licensing agreement.

 

I find it surprising the author of that article hasn't heard of Office 2019. They didn't mention it once.

Edited April 17, 2018 by Arthur

[free780]

It depends if you are invested in Office 365. New features that use EMS will be in Office 365 Proplus before the VL edition. It may be that your organisation is already paying an annual licensing cost to MS anyway. You also get consitancey with home installs.

[jmak]

 

I find it surprising the author of that article hasn't heard of Office 2019. They didn't mention it once.

 

They could have guessed given normal release cycles, but this thread and the article were from April last year. Office 2019 wasn't announced until September.

 

I find it surprising this thread has taken off again after a year [emoji39]

[Arthur]

this thread and the article were from April last year.

Good point!

 

I didn't notice @mavhc had resurrected this thread when I posted.

Edited April 18, 2018 by Arthur

[ollyyllo]

The consequences of losing Office 365 connections are that perpetual-license Office products won't be able to connect with Office 365 services such as "Outlook, OneDrive for Business and Skype for Business clients" on Oct. 13, 2020

 

Anyone know more details on what you will actually lose connection to, surly you'll still be able pull mail via IMAP, will autodiscover still work?

[mavhc]

I guess they want to update the O365 Exchange service faster.

 

Now that windows 10 is free forever, I don't really see the point of paying yearly for MS stuff, when it's more expensive that way.

[Optimus]

I guess they want to update the O365 Exchange service faster.

 

Now that windows 10 is free forever, I don't really see the point of paying yearly for MS stuff, when it's more expensive that way.

 

I was thinking similar.. just make sure every PC is licensed with Win 10 Edu (or similar edition) initially and drop yearly subscription payments for it..

[free780]

Before long will we all have Microsoft 365 rather than perpetual licensing.

[sted]

I was thinking similar.. just make sure every PC is licensed with Win 10 Edu (or similar edition) initially and drop yearly subscription payments for it..

 

isnt edu version (and enterprise for that matter) volume license only and iirc theres a lot of stuff you cant manage with gpo on the pro version

[mavhc]

But you can with a few regedits, as that's all GPOs do pretty much anyway