This solution only offers one license and it can only be installed on one PC - this has not really a lot of value considering the three installs that Microsoft allowed in the past. Office Home & Student 2013 will continue as standalone suite and it is available at $139.99, but it will only bundle Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint, excluding the Outlook client which is present in the subscription package. For those who a yearly subscription isn’t an option, the company is also allowing people to subscribe to a month-to-month program which cost $9.99. It is worth noting that Microsoft is also providing free upgrades as part of the subscription benefit. Office 365 Home Premium is the subscription based solution, it cost $99.99 per year and it grants users to install Office Professional 2013 on up to five computers (PC or Mac), which includes all the most used Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access and Publisher.Īdditionally, users will get 60 minutes of Skype calls credit per month and 20GB of extra storage in SkyDrive (Microsoft’s cloud storage solution). However other countries which still emerging into the market will continue the offering of an install disc in the box.īelow is the roundup of packages available with prices and what comes included on each version: Instead the software giant is simply wrapping a product code in a box, which then users have to use to download the installation files.
The most noticeable change here, besides the product itself, is that in the U.S., UK and many other well-established markets, buying a boxed version of Office will not include a physical DVD as anyone would expect.
The suite is being rolled out in different packages, each one with a different set of applications, features and prices. Although, users will still be able to choose a standalone version of the suite, if they aren’t yet ready to jump in to the subscription wagon. This time around the folks at Redmond are putting a great effort to reimagine software once again and promote a new subscription based model with Office 365, providing families, businesses, and users with multiple devices a great set of office applications at relatively good priced. Microsoft is finally making available today one of the most awaited piece of software: Office 2013.
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