that makes absolutely no sense because if you're going to say Microsoft 360 is a serviced what are you going to say about the people who bought the permanent key so they can have office? both are need of updates both are in need of maintenance if the sugar goes down their functions do not work. I believe that the whole services portion here is misunderstood as you do not need to charge monthly for a service whether you can actually just pay for a set amount of months and then have to pay again for another set up services. take the annual pass for example. The thing cost $30 for 3 expansions and it's going to last you the whole year. You just spent $30 for a year. when that finishes they're going to come up with yet another annual pass or big expansion which is going to be x amount of dollars for however long it lasts. In this light this is a service.