Office subscription model

[ajm]

ok. I understand the essential differences between the old licence style "ownership" of the Office application versus the subscription model. question though. If you are saving to your own local drive, you can open and edit existing docos when there is no internet connection. can you also create new documents if you are offline? What happens to the flash drives full of documents in word, excel, ppt, visio, access etc that i have collated over the years if they are ever opened in the subscription software? do they have to then be opened every month ad infinitum so that they aren't rendered useless by the restrictions that dictate files have to be opened every 25 days?

 

[RoryA]

Having 365 does not affect your files. You can create new ones offline. There is no restriction that says that files have to be opened every 25 days - that would be commercial suicide.

 

[ajm]

In a section about being online, one of the Microsoft support pages on the topic says:

"You should connect to the internet regularly to keep your version of Office up to date and benefit from automatic upgrades. If you don’t connect to the Internet at least every 39 days, your applications will go into reduced functionality mode, and you might see an unlicensed product error. To reactivate your Office applications, simply reconnect to the internet and sign in to Microsoft 365."

I misread it, I think, to mean each file had to be accessed while online, as opposed to just being online for any old reason.