Or, maybe this is real. I saw this elsewhere and thought I would pass it on.

https://www.popsci.com/gear/lifetime-microsoft-office-sale/

Microsoft Office lifetime license for $39.99.

I'm not a Word or Office user, so I can't offer an opinion on whether this is a good thing or a trick.

Caveat emptor.

As far as I can tell, this is real but misleading. It's a "lifetime license" for the 2021 version of Microsoft Office. It does *not* appear to cover subsequent version upgrades. So "lifetime license" simply means a one-time purchase of the current version, which is how almost all software purchases used to work. In the current climate of subscriptions, it strikes me as misleading to say "lifetime license", because it gives the impression of being a lifetime subscription (which would typically include upgrades).

Cf. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-the-difference-between-microsoft-365-and-office-2021-ed447ebf-6060-46f9-9e90-a239bd27eb96

Thanks for your insight. I figured there was a catch.

Still, though, for those wanting Word, Excel, and the rest and content with the current versions it sounds pretty nice.

Plop DocxManager on top of it and Word is probably a pretty slick writing environment.

Lucas wrote:

As far as I can tell, this is real but misleading. It's a "lifetime
license" for the 2021 version of Microsoft Office. It does *not* appear
to cover subsequent version upgrades.

Indeed. It is absolutely a good price, so long as one is clear on what one's getting. Word and Excell continue to be essential to my workflow.

Thank's for posting this. I've just bought it

I've seen those offers, and they remain to be present to this day, but at a price of $59 plus VAT, but anyway, whilst my Windows licenses all come with the respective hardware, my current MS "Office" subscription has been and is one of those "multiple corporate licenses then spread over multiple, individual re-sells" from the past ("2016" in my case)... and I just use Outlook, from that "bundle"... but then, try to buy Outlook...

I'll probably need some "modern" hardware quite soon, my current desktop pc being from 2017 (i.e. i7.7) and with 16 GB of RAM, but considering the recurrent problems with the above-mentioned license kind, I would NOT "buy-then-shelf" since in-case-of, MS will invalidate your license, or what they will consider as "license, not valid", just about 5 weeks after the install...

Your mileage may differ, as it almost always does, though.