What is Microsoft 365 - Explained - Kevin Stratvert
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Date: 2022-03-15
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Jujubees711
I like your video. And it does help to change my mind about subscription service in some ways.
am someone like your dad who like buying office once and then forgetting about it for 4 years. However, so many companies today are now jumping on the subscription model to generate an ongoing revenue. It makes me feel bad for families that are being milked to death by these already billion dollar companies. $10 dollars here, $20 dollars there adds up each month. With that being said. Microsoft 365 does offer a lot for the subscription price but at the same time, I feel like I am paying for things that I don't use. Like PowerPoint. And I don't really care about this constant updates. I just want Word and Excel to work. Although, I do like the new editor feature in Word as part of the subscription. It would be nice if in the future you can build your plan. I don't like paying for all these extra features that Microsoft offers to make the package seem like a deal but I'm not using them. I only use Word and Excel, but I like cloud. I haven't used it before, but that is the only thing that and the editor feature, if it's comparable to Grammarly may make the subscription worth it for me.
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I like your video. And it does help to change my mind about subscription service in some ways.
am someone like your dad who like buying office once and then forgetting about it for 4 years. However, so many companies today are now jumping on the subscription model to generate an ongoing revenue. It makes me feel bad for families that are being milked to death by these already billion dollar companies. $10 dollars here, $20 dollars there adds up each month. With that being said. Microsoft 365 does offer a lot for the subscription price but at the same time, I feel like I am paying for things that I don't use. Like PowerPoint. And I don't really care about this constant updates. I just want Word and Excel to work. Although, I do like the new editor feature in Word as part of the subscription. It would be nice if in the future you can build your plan. I don't like paying for all these extra features that Microsoft offers to make the package seem like a deal but I'm not using them. I only use Word and Excel, but I like cloud. I haven't used it before, but that is the only thing that and the editor feature, if it's comparable to Grammarly may make the subscription worth it for me.
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Joseph
Your videos are very informative. However, I have disliked Office 365 in he past since it had always been a stripped down version of word and excel. In other words some more advanced functionality of word and excel were missing from 365 and I was having trouble using 365 for work projects. Now it seems that that is no longer the case, although I cannot find any evidence of that from any reviews I have seen, yours included. I was planning to buy office 2021 for my new mac, but I am now wondering if that's a mistake. I may give 365 a retry, and if I still don't have the functionality I need, then I may buy the installed software. I did attempt to do this a couple of years ago, but anytime I opened a .doc file, it always reverted to the subscription word rather than my installed word, and for that reason I am reluctant to do this again. I would appreciate your thoughts regarding all the above. Thanks and keep the videos coming!
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Your videos are very informative. However, I have disliked Office 365 in he past since it had always been a stripped down version of word and excel. In other words some more advanced functionality of word and excel were missing from 365 and I was having trouble using 365 for work projects. Now it seems that that is no longer the case, although I cannot find any evidence of that from any reviews I have seen, yours included. I was planning to buy office 2021 for my new mac, but I am now wondering if that's a mistake. I may give 365 a retry, and if I still don't have the functionality I need, then I may buy the installed software. I did attempt to do this a couple of years ago, but anytime I opened a .doc file, it always reverted to the subscription word rather than my installed word, and for that reason I am reluctant to do this again. I would appreciate your thoughts regarding all the above. Thanks and keep the videos coming!
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byron2521
Yes! I agree with your dad. I'm on here because I got 24 hours to write a paper for class and my PC crashed and I am scrambling to figure out how to save stuff -permanently- to onedrive so I can access it again. I thought everything was going well and I did something to erase my paper. Don't know what I did? Of course, if I had access to word or Apachee Office on my PC, I could have saved the paper permanently. Now I'm trying to learn this crap on the fly. Like your dad, if I had a download that I could use I wouldn't be about to fail this paper. This might be interesting if I wasn't under the gun. Sorry, don't need a history lesson of Office, need to use it now! Good bye.
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Yes! I agree with your dad. I'm on here because I got 24 hours to write a paper for class and my PC crashed and I am scrambling to figure out how to save stuff -permanently- to onedrive so I can access it again. I thought everything was going well and I did something to erase my paper. Don't know what I did? Of course, if I had access to word or Apachee Office on my PC, I could have saved the paper permanently. Now I'm trying to learn this crap on the fly. Like your dad, if I had a download that I could use I wouldn't be about to fail this paper. This might be interesting if I wasn't under the gun. Sorry, don't need a history lesson of Office, need to use it now! Good bye.
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Angus
I think the subscription model makes a lot of sense in this day and age. I use 365 and love it. I have LibreOffice as well and use Google's suite. But I just like how Office works and I love the Edge browser. It's excellent. No ap or os is perfect but I think 365 is doing a bang-up job. I love how each ap in Office shares functions and how Word, which I, as a writer, use every day, is always improving. I love the Dark Mode which makes it very easy for me to work into the wee hours, when I get most of my work done, for I am and always have been a night owl. All in all, 365 is a great value.
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I think the subscription model makes a lot of sense in this day and age. I use 365 and love it. I have LibreOffice as well and use Google's suite. But I just like how Office works and I love the Edge browser. It's excellent. No ap or os is perfect but I think 365 is doing a bang-up job. I love how each ap in Office shares functions and how Word, which I, as a writer, use every day, is always improving. I love the Dark Mode which makes it very easy for me to work into the wee hours, when I get most of my work done, for I am and always have been a night owl. All in all, 365 is a great value.
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Meredith
Excellent video. Thank you. I understand that younger people enjoy all the bells and whistles, but I wish some thought would go into what older people need--which for myself at least (soon to be 70) is a simplified system, that is less expensive. Microsoft or someone could develop a good niche trying to serve the needs of senior citizens who are online, but who don't really benefit from a lot of this high-tech improvement.
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Excellent video. Thank you. I understand that younger people enjoy all the bells and whistles, but I wish some thought would go into what older people need--which for myself at least (soon to be 70) is a simplified system, that is less expensive. Microsoft or someone could develop a good niche trying to serve the needs of senior citizens who are online, but who don't really benefit from a lot of this high-tech improvement.
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mary
The subscription warning popped up in my computer and was struggling to decide to renew or just buy the one time Office. Luckily found your video and this is very helpful for folks like me who are from your Dad's time and we struggle for help and understanding on these new tech issues. Truly helped me decide on 365. Your dad and mom must truly be very lucky to have a son like you! best wishes always to you.
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The subscription warning popped up in my computer and was struggling to decide to renew or just buy the one time Office. Luckily found your video and this is very helpful for folks like me who are from your Dad's time and we struggle for help and understanding on these new tech issues. Truly helped me decide on 365. Your dad and mom must truly be very lucky to have a son like you! best wishes always to you.
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ouroesa
You can't install anything unless your administrator allows you. Was trying to get a buddy to install Excel on his new work laptop and we could not find a download button for the life of us. Turns out his work IT disabled that and Windows gives you no explanation or indication. Usually it would be a greyed out button but because website, just no button and no info text.
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You can't install anything unless your administrator allows you. Was trying to get a buddy to install Excel on his new work laptop and we could not find a download button for the life of us. Turns out his work IT disabled that and Windows gives you no explanation or indication. Usually it would be a greyed out button but because website, just no button and no info text.
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Greg
I currently have dedicated server for email. I think it's called exchange server. The server is 11 years old and takes up plenty of space not to mention the power it consumes. I heard I can get rid of the server for email with Microsoft 365?
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I currently have dedicated server for email. I think it's called exchange server. The server is 11 years old and takes up plenty of space not to mention the power it consumes. I heard I can get rid of the server for email with Microsoft 365?
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Gay
I like the subscription idea... Knowing it isn't going to gradually lose functionality because of its increasing age is good. And, the price is more doable. Finally, the 1 Terabite of cloud storage/backup is what really sold me on the 365.
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I like the subscription idea... Knowing it isn't going to gradually lose functionality because of its increasing age is good. And, the price is more doable. Finally, the 1 Terabite of cloud storage/backup is what really sold me on the 365.
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captainvlog
Honestly, this just made me not want it. Like fonts and templates? It seems like paralysis by having too many options on things that don't really matter.
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Honestly, this just made me not want it. Like fonts and templates? It seems like paralysis by having too many options on things that don't really matter.
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