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On Windows, Microsoft lets you install Office 365 on five different computers with your single subscription, each with its own customizable experience that is tied to each Microsoft account. It's only later, when Office gets upgraded again, that the standalone versions will become out-of-date. But whether you choose to pay one time for the new Office or sign up for a subscription to Office 365, you'll mostly get the exact same experience I'm writing about here. In fact, with a subscription plan, Microsoft says you'll never have to buy another new version of Office again. With today's release, it's clear Microsoft would prefer you sign up for the subscription because the standalone versions won't receive all the upgrades over time that you would get with Office 365 Home Premium. You can get one of the desktop standalone versions of the new Office, but I don't think it's the best way to experience Office. Along with a redesigned interface, all of these things come together to make the best Office yet.Īs I said above, the cloud-connected Office 365 suite comes in separate versions for home and business, with the home version available today and the business version available at the end of February.
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With full touch-screen support, the entire suite has been reinvented to work with Windows 8-driven tablets and smartphones, making much of the work flow much easier than before regardless of the hardware you're using. For starters it's available wherever you are, on whatever device you're using at the time. With all that said, what I'm reviewing here is Office 365 Home Premium, and I definitely like what I see - especially when I can put it on five machines for $100 per year.
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CNET Blog Network author Lance Whitney has more information about Microsoft's license changes here. This way, if you need to buy a new computer, you'll now be able to transfer Office 2013, where before you would need to buy another copy. After understandable grumbling from users about the restrictive license, Microsoft has changed it to allow users to transfer Office 2013 to another computer once every 90 days.
At launch, if you bought Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 or Home and Business 2013, you would be able to use the suite on only one computer, for the life of that computer. Update: Microsoft announced on Mait has changed the license for stand-alone versions of Office 2013. The pricing breakdown and naming conventions are highly confusing, but ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley tries to make sense of it all here. There's also a great deal for current students, Office 365 University at only about $40 per year (with a minimum two-year subscription). These are Office 365 Home Premium ($99.99 per year) and Office 365 Small Business Premium ($150 per year). But what Microsoft is banking on are the subscription services that have a few more perks, such as endless upgrades as they become available, and still offer most of the same downloadable software. There are additional versions with volume pricing for small and large businesses. You can purchase and download standalone versions with either Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 ($139) or Microsoft Office Home and Business 2013 ($219).
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But after using Office 365 Home Premium on both a tablet and a desktop PC for the last few days, I can tell you that there are plenty of reasons to trade up.Ī note about nomenclature: there are an enormous number of versions of the Microsoft Office suite available across the home and business categories. I wouldn't blame you for asking why you would pay for it when you could get a comparable set of office tools from Google Docs and several other services for a lot less or even free. I really like the new Microsoft Office 2013, even knowing there are several free productivity suites available out there.
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