Pay-once-use-forever is not dead yet says Microsoft, announcing new perpetual licence for Office

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But the next versions of SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, Project Server and Skype for Business Server are subscription-only

A new perpetual licence version for Office will be released in the second half of 2021, Microsoft announced on Tuesday at the Ignite 2020 virtual event. While the company did not disclose the na...

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