>>51842043
It costs $400 because it is the industry standard for communications and and business administration.
It costs $400 because that is how they give it a rarity value. If they just gave it away nobody would value it, not even Microsoft, as they could not afford further development. So they give it a rarity value. If you value this product you will buy it for $400. If you cant afford it or dont value the product, tough shit

>>51842043
It costs $0 on kat

>>51842043
home use program,
if you have office @ work you can buy it for 10$ for home

Businesses can't take the risk of pirating so their price is jacked up to offset home users pirating
Same thing with photoshop, cad, etc

>>51842043
Because it's worth $400. If you want free then go install libreoffice.

Because someone needs to pay up to compensate for our piracy.

because companies make a lot of money so they can afford to spend a lot of money on software, this is why everything costs a fuckton in enterprise contexts

>>51842179
But the Home version is only $150. What makes business worth $250 more?

>>51842233
It's different. Pro includes outlook, publisher, access et cetera.

>>51842233
Because businesses use the software to earn money.

It's 95.88 from GoDaddy

It costs $0 with a kms installer

>>51842043
because no one buys it, they depend on the keks who are dumb enough to do it.