Microsoft 'trash talk' their own products

[Ditto]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/02/06/the-twins-challenge-office-365-crushes-office-2019/

 

Is this clever marketing or something else?

[Norphy]

Microsoft don't want you to buy Office 2019 once, they want you to buy a subscription to Office 365 and pay them for the rest of eternity for it. Seems simple enough to me

[Ditto]

I think they like both income revenues, which in spite of the subscription model, is why they have brought out 2019 versions of their non-subscription based software. It would be fun to run a similar promotion with the same set of twins, where the tasks are ones that can't be completed on the O365!