ok. I understand the essential differences between the old licence style "ownership" of the Office application versus the subscription model. question though. If you are saving to your own local drive, you can open and edit existing docos when there is no internet connection. can you also create new documents if you are offline? What happens to the flash drives full of documents in word, excel, ppt, visio, access etc that i have collated over the years if they are ever opened in the subscription software? do they have to then be opened every month ad infinitum so that they aren't rendered useless by the restrictions that dictate files have to be opened every 25 days?