Microsoft Office 2021 Home & Business - Box Pack - 1 PC/Mac

Microsoft Office. It's what I ordered

MS Office is the standard for home, students, and business needs. Setup is fast and easy.Highly recommend this product.

Installing this product was easy but had to search for the installation of said product.Needs to come with instructions.

NO installation disc/software. This "boxed" Office Suite was recommended to me since I'm not the most computer savvy (typically, a family acquaintance helps me with computer things). So this "boxed" software was supposed to have an Installation Disc/Software. No Installation disc! Why waste all the resources, cardboard, gas, time, to send a BOX with a "key"? Microsoft and their retailers muddy waters unnecessarily -to cut costs and increase bottom line? Or, to help the end-user/customer? Lol, they sent me a BOX WITH A KEY CODE -and then one goes to DL installation software. *Oh yeah, MS sure makes it difficult to NOT rent their Office 365 annual plans as you try to navigate their website to DL installation media!! The old Office 365 switcherroo! AFTER, my purchase of the BOX/Key for Office 2021.

I am thankful a perpetual license version of Microsoft Office still exists, given that Microsoft is trying to port everyone over to the "forever subscription" model with Office 365. That said, I really resent how Microsoft Updater works under macOS.Microsoft Updater will auto-launch even if it isn't in the Startup/Login item folder, meaning that there is no easy way to disable its constant "notifications". Unlike earlier versions of Microsoft Office, the current updater functions as "nagware" to to suggest upgrades that are incompatible with this version of Microsoft Office (i.e. require a Microsoft Office 365 subscription).Unlike the Windows version of Microsoft Updater, if you go into the preferences to disable Auto Update, it will still run EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Under macOS, all that "disable" means is that if an update is found, it won't install without clicking "yes" — but the Updater itself is still going to go online every time you startup your Mac to look for those updates and then prompt you to acknowledge them EVEN IF those updates cannot be applied because this version of Microsoft Office is too old (i.e. not part of 365).After a lot of searching online, I found instructions for how to edit the relevant Microsoft Updater PLIST file to edit the ridiculously short update interval. It really should NOT have been necessary to poke around in the hidden files to stop this intrusive application from running. (As part of my search, I even found students complaining that MS Updater would launch during tests and Microsoft Office support, on their own forums, had no solution for how to disable it, insisting only that it can be "disabled" from the Mac preferences menu — never acknowledging that this only disables the "auto install", NOT the background activity with MS servers and related update prompts!)Microsoft Updater has been a pain throughout all versions of Microsoft but uninstalling it tends to open another can of worms (i.e. repeated prompts to reinstall it). Essentially, Microsoft Updater under MS Office 2021 behaves like one part updater and one-part adware/nagware for Office 365.

I was concerned because Amazon showed the shipping status a shipped and USPS said it had not been picked up yet, but it arrived, in perfect condition, on time, and installed perfectly.I saw a lot of bad reviews, and was leery, but I would order from them again. If there was a problem, it appears to have been fixed.Four stars because I consider that a normal purchase and delivery. And this was. No surprises.

Format indicated it was with DVD-ROM...Not true

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