For many businesses and government buyers this can make sense, but for home users that keep a single machine for years at a time this will be an added burden. Even finding a link to the standalone version of Office on Microsoft's website proves to be a bit of challenge. Third-party retailers may still offer slight discounts, but will effectively be forced to raise prices. Although Microsoft is raising prices, the last time that standalone Office applications saw a price increase was Perhaps the larger concern for enterprise users is the increase in pricing on Client Access Licenses required to use server products.
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By offering an upgrade every three years and limiting support to five years, Microsoft has forced customers who want or need perpetual licensing to deploy every version. The way Microsoft's laid out Office LTSC's release and support calendar, customers will have to upgrade at the launch of each new refresh.
The reason: There's no overlap between the current version and the one after the next. Having to upgrade every three to four years, without the option of extending that to better amortize the perpetual license purchase, puts pricing pressure on the on-premises option.
Put plainly: By forcing upgrades on a three- or even four-year cadence and a four-year tempo would be almost impossible because it would demand an immediate deployment upon release, with only a month upgrade window at the end , Microsoft's priced the perpetual license out of the market. The reason for the increase?
Unclear, although Spataro seemed to link the price boost to the fact that Microsoft sees LTSC as "a specialty product intended for specific scenarios. The prices for Office , meanwhile, will not change, Spataro asserted.
From the target audience described — consumers and small businesses — it's likely Microsoft will stick to the two editions of the past. Clearly, Microsoft wants to link the one-time-payment version of Office with the long-term release option of Windows. According to the company, it was for consistency's sake.
There have been exceptions: Two years ago, Microsoft launched a misguided public relations campaign that portrayed Office as second-class when pitted against Office By choosing the negative label LTSC , Microsoft has implied, and none too subtly, that it will badmouth Office's one-time-payment option as it has the same-named Windows build.
And with both now sporting reduced support, customers would be smart to assume each option is — or soon will be — on a deathwatch, with that step followed in the near-to-mid-term by a declaration of obsolescence, then abandoned.
Computerworld posits that there is no better indication of a company's desire to do away with a product than its slashing of support. It's the clearest message of end times, short of actually pulling the plug.
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