Perpetual License?

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RKanarek
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Perpetual License?

Post by RKanarek »

Greetings,

The option of purchasing a perpetual license was noticeable by its absence on SM's website. I find this troubling.

Over the decades I've been using computers, I've noticed quite a few software companies that have adopted the attitude that, if [insert name of megacorp software company here] can do it, we, [insert name of minor, since deceased software company here], can do it, too. This seldom ends well. (Of course, most things seldom end well, but let's stay focused. ;-)

Given that Softmaker's primary competitor is not Microsoft Office, but are, apparently, Google Office, LibreOffice, and Microsoft Office Basic -- all of which are free (except for two, which have a privacy cost), is SM quite sure that poking the sleeping bear (it's customer base) is a good idea?
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Re: Perpetual License?

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It's still there.
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Woody44
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But when you click that link it takes you to SoftMaker Office 2024 ...
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Re: Perpetual License?

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The home page says: «SoftMaker Office Professional 2026, the new version with a permanent license, will be released in a few weeks.» This may be due to the fact most of the new features present on NX are AI related. I would hope they are adding something else to make it attractive to buy, otherwise, if you do not require any of the new formulas present on PlanMaker, possibly, most people wont update. Don't get me wrong, the improvement to comments in TextMaker is quite nice, but not necessary a game-changing feature to make you update.
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