Do I need to subscribe to software now?

[Anonymous]

Migrating to a new computer and was hoping to upodate Quicken and Microsoft Office. In the past, I would download the software or buy a CD and just install it. Now it looks like they are subscriptiuon based. Quicken Deluxe. for example, is $44.95/year.

But I don't want to upgrade every year. Is there no longer a way to pay one price and use the software for several years before upgrading again?

[Anonymous]

I run into this problem, myself, all the time. I take my old hardware/software out of mothballs as needed … but I cannot keep that up much longer. There is a huge market opportunity for non-subscription software.

[Anonymous]

That's the trend, I'm afraid.

[Anonymous]

I see some places (Software Pro World and Digital Make) are offering MS Office Pro 2019 (download) for $39.95 and $69.95, respectively, whereas Microsoft has the same product for $439.99.

What's the catch?

[Anonymous]

You can buy Office still. It's expensive, but it always has been.

I don't know about Quicken, sorry.

[Anonymous]

You could get a more recent version before they switched to office 365. I have had good luck getting licenses for recent but not the newest version of office on eBay for a good price. For quicken I have switched to the annual subscription though.

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the cloud, boomer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see some places (Software Pro World and Digital Make) are offering MS Office Pro 2019 (download) for $39.95 and $69.95, respectively, whereas Microsoft has the same product for $439.99.

What's the catch?

I see it listed for $44.99. This is for a one-time non-transferable license. Cannot move it to a new PC or a laptop. But a good price.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see some places (Software Pro World and Digital Make) are offering MS Office Pro 2019 (download) for $39.95 and $69.95, respectively, whereas Microsoft has the same product for $439.99.

What's the catch?

I see it listed for $44.99. This is for a one-time non-transferable license. Cannot move it to a new PC or a laptop. But a good price.

So that's the catch? I can live with that.

[Anonymous]

Also look for “student” or “education” editions sometimes— they don’t care how old your kid is as long as you aren’t using it in place of a commercial license

[Anonymous]

I have Quicken, and my solution has been to pull out of retirement an old laptop that does not have Windows 10. Cleared everything off it, and only use it for Quicken. Keep my old, free version. I know, pathetic. But teaching this old dog new tricks is not easy. And it pisses me off to pay every year for something I already bought.

I'm old school, using Quicken in like a checkbook, and check my budgets and monitor how much we are spending in all the different categories. I don't use the online anything.