The second half of the alleged "Office NGO" animation is a bit more controversial than the first half, mostly because it suddenly veers off into an unlikely subscription-based scenario. Don't get me wrong, I fully expect Microsoft to ply the subscription waters with the next version of Office. But the choices offered here are almost incoherent:
- Purchase the Office NGO Professional suite, as always, at retail and then optionally decide to subscribe to Office services on a yearly basis.
- Purchase a new subscription-only version of the Office NGO Professional suite and the online Office services together. Both the Office product and its associated services would work for one year, after which time you could renew the subscription for another year, pay a set dollar amount to upgrade the subscription version of the suite to the "normal" version and eschew the online services, or just let the subscription suite sit on your hard drive and work in reduced functionality mode.
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