You don’t have to believe me, the open-source, Linux guy. I quote Ed Bott, ZDNet’s Microsoft maven, “You can no longer buy Office, Microsoft’s flagship product, on removable media. You can’t even download offline installer files for the three retail editions of Office: Home and Student, Home and Business, and Professional.”
But, wait, there’s more, much more. “Multi-PC editions are no longer available,” and “Your perpetual license is locked to one PC.” Your PC goes up in smoke? Too bad, you can’t legally or physically reinstall “your” copy of Office on another PC.