Change Expiry date of MS office to hours quota then DD/MM/YYYY

Question

Dear Microsoft customer care,

I just want to suggest, for expiry date of MS office can be changed from using expiry based on date to hours expiry of MS used. The reason why, like myself, access to MS office is not daily or event some of house's wife or retired person. They may used MS office very minimum less than 5hrs a day and when expiry date is near, they hv to purchase for another year. if and if, let say for $100 package can be used for 1700hrs, and once it reached the hours quota, then they hv to buy quota to keep using MS, i think is better. Expiry date MS office based on date is worth for professionals or students or others who really depends on MS office in their work or life,

Thanks for consideration.

Warm regards

Taufiq

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Answer 1

Hi Taufiq Hidayat

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum

First of all, thank you so much for your sharing your thoughts and insights here.

Microsoft 365/Office subscriptions are sold by time (monthly or yearly terms) rather than by “hours used,” and the service remains active while the subscription is current.

With that said, your point about light or occasional users is valid. If someone doesn’t need Office every day, there are a few options below that you and other users here can try:

• Consider a one-time purchase instead of a subscription: Office 2024 is available as a one-time purchase for a single PC or Mac (no recurring renewal), which can be a better fit for users who don’t need continuous feature updates.
• Use Office on the web for free: If basic editing is enough, Word/Excel/PowerPoint for the web are available at no cost with a Microsoft account.

I truly appreciate you sharing your opinion on this one. Please feel free to also leave your feedback here in https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ as well.Thank you so much and have a great day.