My Office

Seriously, this is basically spam at this point. Either give us free but basic versions of Office or get this junk upselling app off our machines.

The installation experience with this app is actually pretty good, but the incessant reminders to purchase the latest version on all of my machines running Windows 10 is extremely annoying. It wasn't even clear to me that this app was generating all of the notifications. Despite dismissing them many times, I would keep getting interrupted to consider getting the latest version of office.

I like nothing of this. Uninstalled the app, not interested in Office at this time, Windows reinstalled it and constantly pops up notifications to "Get Office". There is a task scheduler that can be removed to stop this annoyance but I should not have to fix this every time. If Windows update is going to constantly revert my system back to before the changes I made then Windows Update will be have to be cut off. Please fix this behavior Microsoft. EDIT: Office itself is a great product. This review is purely for "Get Office" and the fact that I can't make it go away permanently.

Can somebody who is sane in his mind tell me what's the purpose of this 60mb application that keeps updating every two days without serving any good purpose? Why should I keep it?

I never minded paying for Office. When I needed to buy it on a new computer, I saved up, paid the cash, and used what really is a very versatile, powerful and valuable set of workplace and personal tools. But Microsoft doesn't like people using a version of office from three years ago, so now we have to pay a monthly subscription. Over the next three years, I will have paid significantly more than I have ever previously paid for this application set, and after that, I get to keep paying. Curious, then, that I get all the functionality I need for free from Microsoft's Android version of this exact same product. I am regretting buying a Surface tablet now.

It is silly to not allow access to the calendar without purchase of this app. Beyond that it is terrible that I cannot purchase it outright and instead have to subscribe. I have purchased office 2013 and it has worked well for me. I most definitely have no need for the subscription based one. I just want the basic for my Surface.