Office 365 blows past one million subscribers, latest Office 'best-selling' yet

[anuseems]

In spite of the uproar caused by Microsoft moving in a cloud-based direction for Office, it appears as though the subscription model is actually quite successful for the company. In a blog post, Microsoft just announced that it has moved past one million subscribers in just over 100 days since it was released. Office 365 grants users access to the popular productivity suite for $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year.

Microsoft is calling the latest version of Office its most successful version to date. The company says that more than one copy of the software is sold each second since it launched earlier this year.

Of course, a big portion of those sales comes from companies signing up large enterprise licenses. Still, the quick uptake Office 365 is seeing definitely shows that people are willing to sign up for a monthly service in order to access to a piece of software they find useful.

Adobe also making a move to the cloud. The company recently passed one million subscribers, but unlike Microsoft, they're not offering a stand-alone version of their software anymore. Earlier this month, Microsoft said it feels that not all consumers are ready to make the move just yet and thus it decided to keep both options.

@ http://blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2013/05/29/thanks-a-million.aspx

[DKT27]

Cloud. :thumbsdown:

From a PC user point of view, I still will always prefer to use softwares locally. :)

[Reefa]

Cloud. :thumbsdown:

From a PC user point of view, I still will always prefer to use softwares locally. :)

ye me to.well away from prying eyes :)

[dcs18]

It's not the cloud part that's the matter of concern, for me - but, the subscription part. The cloud can be disabled partially / completely - however, the subscription module sucks big-time.

The success of the subscription points to the fact that it's a tough task to cater to everybody - better to have different flavors offering different regimes (that probably would satisfy most people.)

My concern however is that; based on this success Microsoft might want to migrate and consolidate all their existing regimes into one single subscription-based regime. :thumbsdown:

[RadioActive]

100$ per year? That's just stupid from a personal standpoint..

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people are willing to sign up for a monthly service in order to access to a piece of software they find useful.

First Microsoft says that consumers like ads... now they say that consumers like to pay monthly subscription fees rather than a one time fee to own for life. Is it just me, or is MS becoming money greedy?