A bundle pairing a lifetime license for Microsoft Office Professional 2021 with Windows 11 Pro is selling for $38.97, against a listed regular price of $418.99, PCWorld reported.

The package includes the full desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Office staples — paid once, with no recurring charges. That's the central pitch: Microsoft's own path to Office now runs through the annually billed Microsoft 365 subscription, so perpetual-license deals have become the main alternative for users who want to stop paying every year.

The usual caveats apply to steeply discounted lifetime-license bundles: Office 2021 is a fixed release rather than the continuously updated 365 suite, so buyers get stability and a one-time cost in exchange for skipping future feature updates. For users with a machine that needs a Windows 11 Pro upgrade anyway, bundling the OS license into the same $39 outlay is where the math gets most compelling.