In my use-case (a five-year upgrade cycle), assuming I needed three licenses, that works out $9.93 per license, per year. We don't yet know the price of the Home Premium subscription flavor. That includes Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint. I don't know if my Microsoft Word needs have changed since 1997 my parents still use Word 2003 and I had no trouble working with it while visiting.Ī full copy of Office 2010 Home & Student is $119.45 for a single PC, $149.95 for up to three PCs. I haven't bought a new copy since, because the 2007 version of Excel does everything I need it to. For example, I upgraded to Office 2007 because I wanted the new graphing engine that debuted in Excel that year. The problem Microsoft faces with this approach is that the vast majority of home users rarely buy Office upgrades (assuming they bought it in the first place). As a subscription, it's considerably more dicey. Files, in Office 2013, are saved to your SkyDrive account by default, and customers opting for the Home Premium edition will be rewarded with 60 minutes of Skype access per month and an additional 20GB of SkyDrive storage space.Īs a one-time offer, that's a pretty attractive package.
Buying Office 2013Ĭloud integration comes in the form of "Office on Demand," which lets you stream the software to a system where it isn't installed, edit documents remotely, and then save the files online. Sign up for Office Home Premium, and you receive a license for up to five devices (which, of course, Microsoft hopes will be a bunch of Surface tablets). Up to now, Office 365 was strictly a business product Microsoft hopes to change that by integrating features like SkyDrive and offering a multi-license family pack.
It's Metroesque without being a full implementation of Metro, and it's very much a product in transition.Īccording to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, Office 2013 is "a service first." The executive, who's come under fire in recent months for the company's lackluster stock price over the past decade, claimed that Office 2013 is "the most ambitious release of Office we've ever done."Īs part of that "service first" mentality, Office 2013 is effectively being rolled into Office 365 and now comes in a Home Premium subscription flavor. According to Microsoft, Office 2013 is a cloud-based product with a physical, licensed-for-perpetuity option for those who aren't willing to sign up for a subscription service. Microsoft has released a new Customer Preview demo of its upcoming Office 2013 (aka Office 15) suite, and we've spent a few hours with the product to get a feel for what we can expect when the full version drops in early 2013.
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