Ask OutlinerSoftware: Subscription vs One time pricing?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 18, 2022 at 09:21 PM

Microsoft and Adobe’s subscriptions are linked to additional hosted services, which may provide substantial added value depending on one’s situation. At my company we have purchased perpetual Office 2016 licenses and as yet see no reason to upgrade. But at home, I use an Office subscription which covers my whole family and allows me to work online, even from Linux machines. It also provides as much online storage as Dropbox at no additional cost.

For collaborative longform writing, I find Word online unbeatable, not least because just about everyone is familiar with the interface (even those who a few years back would be mailing Word documents back and forth.)

To take the example of Hyperplan, the current pricing model is most reasonable for the downloadable software. But I would subscribe to an online/collaborative version without a second thought. Similarly, an online version of Easy Data Transform which would pull data from online services and process them in real time would constitute an altogether different product.

Andy Brice wrote:
>More and more downloable software is going to subscription, with the
>charge led by Microsoft and Adobe.