You really shouldn’t buy Microsoft Office 2019. But don’t just take our word from it, take Microsoft’s. The company is launching a video campaign in an attempt to wean users off the perpetual license version of the Office suite and onto its preferred cloud-based Office 365 subscription platform.
The firm believes the cloud-connected features and more regular updates offer the best overall package for Office users. However, the Office 365 platform costs at least £59.99 per year, while Office 2019 can be nabbed for a one-off price of £119.99, and can be serviceable for years.
In an effort to illustrate just what Office 2019 buyers could be missing, Microsoft has produced a series of clips (via Neowin), purportedly showing sets of identical twins attempting to perform identical tasks on the un-identical versions of Office.
Firstly we’ve got a Word user struggling to edit and share his CV, while his brother breezes through the process thanks to the additional features offered by Office 365.
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There are similar clips for the Excel and PowerPoint apps, with one twin having a much easier time (and enough time to make a smoothie or use a skipping rope) than the other. Completely staged, of course, but you get the idea.
Office 2019 has seemed like a reluctant release from Microsoft since it launched in September. Back then the company said it was only for “customers who aren’t yet ready for the cloud.”
Upon release, company said: “While the cloud offers real benefits in productivity, security, and total cost of ownership, we recognise that each customer is at a different point in their adoption of cloud services. We see the on-premises version of Office as an important part of our commitment to give customers the flexibility they need to move to the cloud at their own pace.”
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