joshbollman :
So...am I the only person who likes Office 365? Everybody whines about it so much. I have 5 people on it and all people get 1TB of cloud storage with it.
Do you want to go back to paying $400 for one licensed disc with 3 activations? I specifically remember the only version of Office worth using costing that much. (I wanted Access and Publisher)
Do people live to be negative? Of course it is continual cash flow. Why are you reminding everybody?
Try finding 1TB per person with a 5 people plan for $100/year in cloud storage. I dare you. That's what they're selling. Nobody believes the software itself is worth a yearly renewal.
Just because a thing exists is not reason enough to like it. The purpose behind Office 365 is to generate perpetual income for Microsoft. Turning a product that folks are used to having perpetual access to, once paid for, into a monthly or yearly billed service, is not grounds for liking that product.
Until Microsoft offers me value I need and can't find equivalency to in Office 365, nothing about it compels me to like it.
Who needs 1TB of cloud storage in the first place? For many folks, this is a product that went in search of a market. If I'm sending somebody else a document, they shouldn't necessarily get access to my cloud storage. If I'm simply going someplace else and want access to my document, cloud storage may be handy, but I have even greater control and reliability using something like a USB drive. I don't need to rely on being connected to the internet for that to work, and nothing from an unplugged USB drive can ever be lost or stolen by the online community.
OneDrive that shipped all the way back with Windows 8 had plenty of cloud storage, and it's umm, free, but if you need more, that can be purchased.
Ultimately though, if I need 1TB of cloud storage, it either better be for mostly cold storage, or I need to rethink the way I'm storing things. 1TB is not a practical amount of data to suck through most internet connections on a regular basis.