Does everyone pay £90 a year for this?

[FrannyScraps]

For Microsoft office package?

I've just got a new laptop for work things, I'm self employed. I can't remember what I did for my desktop.

I can't really do anything on it unless I pay but it's not really a bill I ever see people talk about, along with McAfee for viruses, it's getting to be really expensive.

I haven't been pushed into a subscription yet. You can still buy MS Office with a one off payment.
www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/p/office-home-2024/cfq7ttc0pqvj

I get Microsoft through work, although it is my personal laptop.
If you are with Plusnet, as one of the Plusnet perks you can get 2 years of Norton antivirus for up to 7 devices!

I do, but I use it cross platform and like having the Tb of storage.

Yup, I'm happy with what I get.

No, dd signed into one drive on my laptop with her school email and ever since we've had free Microsoft office, I just need to be careful as when I save it automatically wants to save it to her one drive.

I use google docs. Free with my chrome book. It's a rip off of office which works for me!

No but I can use my work login for my home devices.

And DC can use their school ones.

I LOVE my MacBook but hate Pages/Numbers etc. I miss Microsoft but I'm not willing to pay!

So I use Google sheets and docs instead, and when I download them I convert them to PDFs before I send them to anyone

I also pay around £19 for Adobe,

I really resent it but I do have to periodically edit PDFs and haven't found a way around it?

Please tell me if you know a way!

Give PDF24 a go, see if that does what you want.

Grey market codes, for one off purchases are the way forward. Don't pay Microsoft directly.
Or buy Office 2019 from Microsoft.

Search Google for CJS CD Keys or Software Shop

Yes I pay this

I refuse to pay so I use docs on Google drive

I have a Linux operating system instead of Windows, which viruses don't tend to be written for, and use LibreOffice. Both are free. Also use Gimp instead of photoshop (free as well)

Bill Gates was interviewed once and said that in his opinion when you bought a Microsoft product it ought to basically work on future versions of Windows, and that they would try to make sure that it did, or at least not deliberately break it.

I still use Office 2003 from a CD that accidentally found its way home with me when I left a previous employer. It works almost perfectly on Windows 10. There is one tiny issue when opening some Word 2007+ files whereby a few spaces get lost, but in that case I just upload the file to Google Docs and download it again. Ditto with occasional conversions of big Excel files.

My CD is long gone, but I copied the whole tree of directories/folders to a USB stick and cloud storage, so I am looking forward to installing it again when I get a new laptop with Windows 11 in perhaps a year or so.

There are other free programs that perform the same functions. And if you've paid for Microsoft Word/Excel etc in the past, you can still use those without paying more.

I do (I’m a freelancer) but a lot of people I know use Google instead.

I just had a reminder come through about my Microsoft 365 renewal which is £30 per annum. I think it's for storage but I have no idea what I'm even paying for.

Yeah, bin Macafee, expensive and not good. You can get free / cheaper antivirus that's better. Heck, Windows Defender is as good as anything.

Open office for me, and avast for free antivirus and opera for browser

Buy a Mac, all the office stuff is free and built in and you never need to worry about viruses. And it does not make you want to throw it out the window.

I was paying 5.99 a month. Currently get it free whilst doing my degree with the open university and get it for a few years afterwards too which is a nice bonus

Stop paying for anti virus as the free ones are better. There are free versions of most office programs too. I've not had office for well over 15 years now and I've been able to do everything I needed without them.

I use the online version of Word for free. It’s not as user-friendly and doesn’t have all of the features but it does the job.

Absolutely Not. I used Office 2010 for years before I upgraded it - and currently using Office 2019, which I made a one-off payment for. But as others have said, there are other packages out there which are free and are compatible with word and excel.