It also says: “Microsoft Office cannot be used in conjunction with any Microsoft 365 product”
I thought to get these apps now you had to buy an annual subscription to MS 365.
Also, the most confusing thing to me is that I never see any of the MS Office or 365 products listing MS Access database when they list the apps included! But when I Google if Access is included, I get a resounding “yes”:
But NOT when I’m actually looking to buy the programs from Microsoft.
When I go to actually consider buying the darn product, it always just says include are:
Microsoft Office Word
Microsoft Office Excel
Microsoft Office PowerPoint
Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft Office Teams
Microsoft Office OneNote
And they don’t mention Access!
For the life of me, I can’t figure out if Access is included in their darn software suite or not.
Does anyone have experience with this?
Thanks,
Rick
The link from “Launching Deals” is a reseller of old “new-in-box” MS Office of various flavors. This is the old school, install on your computer applications that are not “rented” on an annual basis.
They have nothing to do with MS 365.
They are not selling versions with and without Access.
Yeah, I like the old school. This annual subscription crap is a stab in the heart of their customers, for no other reason than to ransom us for more money.
I would consider buying from this place but they told me none of their packages have MS Access. Did you see something to the contrary?
Thanks.
Thanks, George! That’s fantastic!
My only question is, how do they get away with that? I thought Microsoft got rid of all the Office standalone software in order to make everyone have to have an annual subscription.
Thanks, Rick
Actually, I have another question also. How to know this is legit? Who is ExtremeTech? I’ll do some Googling to see if there is anything about them.
Do you have experience with them?
Thanks again.
I’m setting my new computer up today!
Thanks Gene.
Maybe I’ll give it a try.
I’ve been using Office 2007 for nearly two decades now! Nothing has “broken” in all that time.
Will it install on my new Windows 11 computer? We’ll see. I’ll try. It did on my Windows 10.
Frankly I’m surprised it has continued to work all this time, with all the new computers and upgraded OS’s.
It’s an unusual situation and I don’t even remember how it happened. I have an “upgrade” disk whereby you need to already have an older version of Office on your computer for it to install. New computers obviously don’t have Office on them already. So while installing the 2007 upgrade at one point it asks me to insert my old Office disk to prove I have an older version. I do that, and then the upgrade 2007 installs. I’ve been doing that since 2007! Funky!
I’ll try that again. My hesitation on getting a newer new version is that I hate learning new procedures in software when I don’t need the newer system, and I bet the whole menu system is different than I’m used to. Why change what isn’t broke is what I always say. Software upgrades are almost always unnecessary to me and almost always just a pain in the %#&* with no improvements. The only exception to that that I can think of is Windows 10. That was way better than all previous Windows for me. But most other software the “improvements” are anything but better. Like Quicken for example. I remember liking the version from 20 years ago better than anything since!
Rick
PS - I can’t believe they wouldn’t let me post the word ttub (backwards) so I put %#&* instead. What on earth is wrong with ttub? LOL.
I guess you really need MS Access for something? Typically, that’s only for “power users”, which is why it’s only included in the “Pro” versions of MS Office.
I’ve been using Access for many years. So yes, I need it for sure.
But I’m not a power user, LOL! I just use a database to track my book collection in a more sophisticated way than can be done with a spreadsheet.
A bit of a side note, that Access was only available in the Windows world, when they brough Office and even Office 365 to the Mac world, it has never included Access, some sort of squabble, never resolved. My DW learned, used Access prior to retiring, but I never had the need… As a Mac user, I’ve never trusted any of the after market resellers, too much of what we do financially relies on Excel, to gamble, and we’re also hooked on Outlook for email, so we gave in, subscribed tot he Office 365, let it do it’s updates, so far so good… And I wanted to be able, if ever needed to have tech support available, haven’t had a need so far, but just a security blanket… YMMV…
I just find it an annoying ripoff that they had to start forcing annual fees instead of the old school selling software that you can use for as long as you want, without having to pay more later. My theory is they stopped being able to improve the software enough to have people voluntarily pay more for the new improvements, so they had to come up with a way to increase the revenue stream without really adding much value.
I have to pay an annual fee for Quicken now after having used it for decades! I upgraded every once in a while but not every year. But that wasn’t good enough for them so now in order to download stock quotes and transactions I have to pay annually.
Greed has been taking the place of customer service for a long time now and it just keeps getting worse.
There, that’s my soapbox!
