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Jacob Kastrenakes
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Microsoft is trying to make it simpler and cheaper — up front, at least — for customers to buy into its Surface lineup. It’s launching a new payment option called Surface All Access that, for a monthly fee, will give customers a Surface device and access to Office 365.
But while this sounds like a subscription service, it’s not. In reality, Surface All Access is just a well branded payment plan. So unlike a phone upgrade program, you don’t trade in the Surface devices for better ones later on; you keep paying month to month until you finally pay off the purchase after two years.
There’s a discount, so long as you want Office 365 anyway
The advantage of buying through the All Access program is that the pricing is somewhat cheaper,...
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Microsoft is trying to make it simpler and cheaper — up front, at least — for customers to buy into its Surface lineup. It’s launching a new payment option called Surface All Access that, for a monthly fee, will give customers a Surface device and access to Office 365.
But while this sounds like a subscription service, it’s not. In reality, Surface All Access is just a well branded payment plan. So unlike a phone upgrade program, you don’t trade in the Surface devices for better ones later on; you keep paying month to month until you finally pay off the purchase after two years.
There’s a discount, so long as you want Office 365 anyway
The advantage of buying through the All Access program is that the pricing is somewhat cheaper,...
Continue reading…
Continue reading...