Reply to post: Re: Refund?

Those Xbox Fitness vids you 'bought'? Look up the meaning of the word 'rent'

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Re: Refund?

It's not the same as introducing a subscription model to replace a previous license purchase model on older versions of software, as in the case of Office. i.e. your copy of MS Office 95 (c-r-e-a-k) still works, though you might need a VM with an older Windows OS to run it in (the licenses for both MS Office 95 and the OS are still valid).

It's only your subscription to Office 365 that is contingent on your continuing to pay your subscription dues. Office 95 didn't stop working when Office 365 became available.

Here, if you were sold content on the basis of a one-off purchase (not a subscription) and if that content was not sold with limits or conditions on access as a clearly stated condition of sale, then I think MS could be letting themselves in for a whole heap of trouble.

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