OP is misrepresenting it a bit, but Office 365 also started as an enterprise version of the suite of programs and now it's the only Office offering available now, so the transition isn't entirely unprecedented
That's the Estimated price for a transferable commercial (ie, can be installed on multiple PCs) enterprise license.
Oh look, they charged $369 for Standard for 2013 and added Publisher, when Standard before had
What do you know? Word, Excel, PP and Outlook only for 399! unbelievable they didn't have more!
So instead of having a "Standard release" for 2016, you know what they did? Release Professional for the same $399 they used to charge for the Standard.
So you are right that there is no Standard release anymore: It got replaced at that price tier by Professional.
They added more for the same price.
That's used for advertisements in apps downloaded via the Windows Store.
Why would you assume I got a volume license product? Where did I say anything that would lead you to believe that?
You didn't get Office 2013 Standard Edition then.
Well, hell, maybe I did buy Professional, and that's why I thought Access was Standard...
I paid $10 for Professional from MS, paid $12 to get an original DVD from MS.
I found the disc. It was 2010 Standard that I bought.
Office 2010 Standard was Retail and Volume.
You are right that Wikipedia says Retail, but I can't find a place that has a price at all.
It's not even that the updates are half baked (though some obviously have had major issues) that is the issue. It's that when you work in IT for a business with thousands of PCs that need to be updated and that update takes up to an hour or two (for large feature updates) to complete, just the seemingly simple task of updating the PCs takes an extraordinary amount of time. Keep in mind too that businesses typically use PCs until they stop working and the updates only take more time as they age.
Weird. I wish I could remember where I bought it. It was a brick and mortar store. I was taking college courses that didn't require Publisher but it helped; I'd gotten used to having it at work so I looked for a version that had it. Granted, this was like 2012, so it would be like buying Office 2016 now in 2018.
Most people only need Word, Excel, PowerPoint, which is why they just shifted everything business to Professional and lowered the MSRP instead of having 5 boxed versions that confused the shit out of people.
The only reason I have Windows on my Gaming PC. I tried Linux gaming. It wasn't bad, tbh, but the games that don't run natively on Linux need a lot of work to get going. And those that do tend to have worse performance than in windows. This was before AMD released their AMD GPUPro opensource drivers on Linux, I've heard good things, but not good enough to get me to try again.
Oh come on, I'm sure people are looking forward to having to recompile kernels... Oh wait, this isn't 2.2 anymore....
Saw it for $74, lol. Yeah, $74 up front, the $5000 next month when they hit your CC again.
Are you A School/Large Corporation?
