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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
From a heavily Microsoft invested user, I would say the $40 US price makes more sense than the $100 US price. My reasoning is that for $99/year, one can buy 6TB of online storage (6 1TB accounts) AND have full access to the entire standalone MS Office Suite. For a family situation or a small group of individual users who chip in, that, is hard to beat. Especially when one considers the tight integration with Win10.
At $40 US, I might be interested in a commercial alternative. But at $100, I just don't see the appeal.
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Yeah, but if you don't use Windows or don't use any (or very little) online storage, the SoftMaker suite would be a great alternative for those who need to create and use Office compatible documents. And the $100 (or $40 if you just sign up for the free software and wait a bit for the promotion) is a one time charge — not an annual one. Since I use Linux (by choice) the Microsoft Office suite is not available for me (even if I wanted it) — and I don't like to "rent" software. But, even at $40, the SoftMaker Office suite and PaintShop Pro have no draw for me. I hardly ever even use LibreOffice and I never need to deal with Microsoft documents. And every attempt at using a "PaintShop" application has ended in failure (for a while I worked in a print shop, so had access to these paint applications).