Tired of Microsoft Office subscriptions? Buy it outright

–PCWorld 

The Dell Laptop Buying Guide 2026: Which XPS or Alienware Laptop Should You Buy? The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? Keep the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps you know, without ongoing subscription payments or constant feature changes. Things used to be simple. You'd buy something, then use it until it either broke down or no longer suited your purposes. Now, especially with software, everything is on a monthly subscription. You don't own anything and the minute you stop paying the fees the product will cease to work.