Buying Microsoft Office used to be simple: you paid once for a license and could use that version as long as you wanted. But like a lot of software, a one time purchase has turned into an endless subscription, as is the case with Microsoft 365. Since Office 2013, Microsoft has pushed the subscription originally called Office 365 as the main way to buy Office. You can still buy a standalone version like Office Home 2024 for $180 for access to Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but it only works on one...
