Joe, the final question is: I one buys Office 2016 Mac, will they do the little tiny upgrades over the years as they have been doing for version 2011?
Microsoft spends an inordinate amount of money supporting older software versions. Long term support for older versions of software was assured because the business community was heavily invested in them and understandably reluctant to spend money on upgrades. If Microsoft has been sufficiently successful in moving corporate customers (by far their biggest cash cow) to a rental model they might decide to phase out support of the older stand alone versions in order to move the consumer base to rental or on-line products, thereby reducing Microsoft's costs and significantly improving the bottom line as well as assuring even greater
locked in cash flow.
As with all such questions, only those in the front office at Redmond, Washington know the answer to your question with any degree of certainty.
