Office 360

Another dumb question from GG.

I bought a laptop a year ago and paid for Office 360 ($70). The subscription is due in a few weeks. If I let the subscription expire will I still have a usable Word and Exel on the laptop? Other downfalls of not subscribing? It probably won't update is my guess, if it works at all.

I ask because I don't use the cloud service at all and and only use Word, etc. on one the one device...not multiple, both of which seems to be a selling point for them.

Maybe I'm just being a cheap ass and should pay the $70.

I am not sure if they will still work or not, but look into LibreOffice, it is free and does pretty much everything Office 365 will do.

I don't believe it will work at all.

I just use Open Office. I'm not sure if that is still the cool kid free software though.

Open Office is the way to go if you don't want to pay.

No they will not work. 0365 is going to check licensing every time you open one of the corresponding applications. We only have a few Visio licenses at work and pass them around when needed. Every time mine gets repurposed it tells me upon opening a Visio document then the application closes. I would do what Cav suggested and just get Open Office if you need Word, Excel, etc.

I've been messing with Open Office this morning. Pretty slick. It does everything I need, so [rockon].

Thanks for the help!