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But the reality is most of us are using either an iPhone or an Android device for our smartphone and tablet needs. The downside is when Microsoft moves to the next version of Office in a few years, you won’t have the latest and greatest version like Office 365 users will.įor cross platform mobile warriors looking for a mobile Office solutionĪlong with your new Office 365 subscription, Microsoft would really like it if you used Windows Phone for accessing Office on a mobile device.
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If you prefer to own your software or don’t think you’ll be willing to maintain an Office 365 subscription long term, then the boxed version of Office 2013 might be for you. You’ll still have all your documents on SkyDrive or your local hard drive, of course, but you won’t be able to use the editing features in Office once your subscription runs out. If you stop paying, your Office software goes away. Like any subscription product, your ability to use the service is tied to your yearly subscription fee. You’ll do fine with a boxed version of Office 2013. You can use Office Home and Student for as many years as you like. For one PC, Office Home and Student is $140. Here is some simple math for those who are not Office power users with one PC.
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And if a brand new version of Office is introduced in another three years, you’ll get to upgrade as part of your subscription. As with previous versions of Office, you’ll get the latest security patches, an important feature considering Microsoft in December warned that hackers are turning their attention to uncovering Office exploits.īeyond security updates, however, you’ll also get new features that come out.
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Subscription software means you will always be able to update to the latest and greatest version of Office. That means our Android and iPads will have to sit on the sidelines until Microsoft allows access to Office on Demand from those devices.įor new feature junkies and security minded Office 2013 was tweaked to work better with touchscreens, but unfortunately only the Windows 8 variety. Unfortunately the wow-factor of accessing Office on Demand is diminished when you learn it has to be a on a Windows PC. For one, she noted a slight delay in saving documents. When my colleague Yardena Arar tried out the Office on Demand feature she noticed a few snags when it came to usability. On top of that, you also get a few freebies including 60 minutes of international Skype calling per month and an extra 20GB of SkyDrive storage.
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When you get to $20 per PC (per year) for five PCs, compared to $700 to install Office Home and Student on five PCs, the subscription model becomes a no-brainer.įive PC installations for $100 a year is a pretty good deal. For those with two PCs, Office 365 will cost you $50 per PC, compared to paying $280 for the traditional desktop licenses needed for two PCs. The Office 365 subscription gets harder to resist the more PCs you have. To get the boxed version of Outlook 2013 you need to fork over another $80 for Office 2013 Home and Business. Office 2013 Home and Student, by comparison offers you just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for $140. With Office 365 Home and Business you get access to most apps from the Office suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, and Publisher. But Microsoft is pushing the $100 per year option for Office 365. You can still buy a boxed version of Office 2013 at your local computer shop with prices starting at $140 for Office 2013 Home and Student. Originally designed for businesses, Office 365 allows you to always have the latest version of Office for a yearly subscription fee of $100. But first a run-down of what your Office options are. Let’s take a closer look at your options and consider the pros and cons. So, should you buy or should you rent? For individuals, there is no one answer. For Microsoft that beats someone buying Office 2010 and never coughing up more money for a newer version. Now Microsoft has hopped on the rental bandwagon and hopes you will start forking over a yearly subscription fee. Last April, Adobe rolled out its Creative Cloud subscription package for renting Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. We pay annual subscription fees for our anti-virus software. For the first time Microsoft is tempting Office users to rent, not own, software that for decades they’ve bought as a standalone program.
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