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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Why?
You can still buy the disk based versions.
They just offer the subscriptions as an option which makes sense for some businesses because those are floating licenses, not device-locked like the traditional disk-based licenses.
Depending on circumstances, subscriptions can be a better choice than owning. A lot like with Ebooks or movies.
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Originally Posted by murg
Not to mention the accounting for the software. If you buy the version, it gets accounted for as a capital expense and has to be depreciated over several years (provided it's above the capital cut-off limit in your country). If you get a subscription, you can write it off as pay for it.
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Maybe I am just a tad
biased, and have viewed Microsoft and its history as the evil empire ! (As the star wars theme song plays in the background as I typed this)
Sorry for the bend going
