Yesterday, Microsoft formally launched the consumer version of its Office 2013 suite, which it first revealed last July. As usual with a new version of Office, there are little tweaks all over the place, many of which have to do with making the software more webby (you can easily save documents to SkyDrive online storage, so they're available from any computer, phone or tablet) and touch-friendly (the interface has been slightly rejiggered to work better with touchscreen PCs, such as many Windows 8 machines).
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For comparison, Amazon UK is currently selling Office 365 Home for ₤52 though it was over ₤70 just a few days ago. Argos was selling Office 365 Home for ₤40 (₤39.99) when combined with McAfee Total Protection, security software. That's a very good price for Office 365. This means that your Office 365 subscription will automatically be renamed to Microsoft 365. Get everything you love about Office 365, plus additional benefits as they are released, all at the same price. No action is needed from your end. Changes began April 21, 2020. Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive. Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive. Share them with others and work together at the same time.
Audacity recording programs. But one of the biggest new twists in Office 2013 involves how you might end up paying for it. Microsoft is now offering a consumer version of its Office 365 service, which turns the suite from a shrinkwrapped product you pay for in one lump sum into a subscription service. And as you'll see if you visit Office.com, it's emphasizing this new Office-as-a-service over the conventional versions. (They remain available, although Microsoft has done away with previous versions that entitled you to install the suite on more than one computer.) It wants subscription Office to be the default Office.
Software companies certainly like the idea of turning their wares into services with ongoing fees: It's a way of ensuring that customers don't buy something once and then hold onto it, spurning upgrades indefinitely. (There are people who paid for Windows XP back in 2001 and have never given Microsoft another dime.)
But do you want to subscribe to Office? There's no one-size-fits-all answer to that question, but I'm going to try to point you in the right direction.
One question I'm not going to answer in this piece. though it deserves further examination: Do you need Office at all, given that the consumer versions of Google's equivalent web-based apps are free? (Briefly, Google's services are a workable alternative in a lot of cases, but Office is still a vastly richer, more capable collection of productivity software.)
With the new consumer version of Office 365, Microsoft has resisted its usual instinctive urge to offer a product in a multiplicity of versions that vary in subtle ways. Despite its name — Office 365 Home Premium — there's just one version of Office 365 for home users. It costs either $99.99 a year or $9.99 a month, which covers up to five computers in a household. They can include Windows PCs and/or Macs; Microsoft isn't releasing a new OS X version of Office just now, but Office 2011, the current Mac version, is part of the package.
Your money gets you…well, pretty much everything in Office you're likely to want to use for personal stuff:
- All the major Office apps (which, for Windows, include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher) in downloadable form, with access to upgrades as they become available;
- 20GB of additional SkyDrive space, beyond the 7GB Microsoft offers for free;
- Office on Demand, a service that lets you stream full-blown Office to Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs that don't have the suite installed;
- An hour of Skype calls (to landlines) each month.
If you're trying to do the math on the deal, start by considering how many computers you plan to use Office with:
- For one PC, Office 365 is $100 per year
- Two PCs: $50 per PC per year
- Three PCs: $33 per PC year
- Four PCs: $25 per PC per year
- Five PCs: $20 per PC year
Then think about your particular situation:
'I have a bunch of computers and they all need Office.'
Office 365 delivers impressive bang for the buck. Even if you bought Office Home & Student — a basic version that includes fewer apps than Office 365 — paying for five copies of the the suite would cost you $700. You could use Office 365 on those five machines through 2019 for that price, and you'd be entitled to all the upgrades that came along. And if you bought five shrinkwrapped copies of Office Professional — the version most comparable to Office 365 Home Premium — you'd owe Microsoft $2,000, which is enough to pay for twenty years' worth of Office 365.
'I want as much Office as possible.'
Until now, Microsoft has catered to price-conscious home users with stripped-down versions of Office. But Office 365 has Outlook, Publisher and Access. And depending on the number of PCs you have and your propensity to upgrade, it might still cost you less over time than a more basic shrinkwrapped edition.
'I want the latest features as fast as possible.'
The core of Office 365 is still a suite of great big conventional PC apps that require updating, not web-based services that always sport the newest features. But Microsoft says it's going to release new stuff for Office 365 on an ongoing basis, giving subscribers additional capabilities without making them wait three years or so for a conventional upgrade.
'I'm upgrade-adverse.'
If you plan to buy Office and then run it into the ground, Office 365 and its free upgrades lose much of their appeal. Note, though, that you aren't required to install new versions as they come along: You could stick with the old ones until you were ready to make the leap.
'You know, I basically need Word and Excel for one computer.'
A $139.99 copy of Office Home & Student will probably do you fine.
'I'm worried what will happen to my stuff if I stop subscribing.'
ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley has written a good post on this topic. It's true that you should only subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium if you're comfortable with the idea of paying Microsoft $100 a year for productivity software indefinitely. But if you cancel your subscription, you won't lose the documents you created — just access to the full-blown Office apps. You'll still be able to open your files in a boxed copy of Office, Microsoft's Office Web Apps or an Office-compatible competitor such as Google Docs.
The bottom line: Depending on how many PCs you've got and how many Office apps you need, Office 365 Home Premium is anywhere from a respectable deal to an aggressively excellent one. If you're happy with whatever version of Office you're using now — or happy using something that isn't Office — there's no need to feel guilty if you don't feel like considering Microsoft's latest upgrade right now. But I think a lot of people who are ready to move to Office 2013 are going to decide that Microsoft has made the Office 365 proposition irresistible.
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Microsoft 365 for business is a subscription service that lets you runyour organization in the cloud while Microsoft takes care of the IT foryou. Microsoft manages devices, protects against real-world threats, andprovides your organization with the latest in business software. Youcan sign up for a free trial subscription for Microsoft 365 BusinessStandard, Microsoft 365 Business Premium, or Microsoft 365 Apps forbusiness and try it out for 30 days.
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You must use a credit card when you sign up for a free trial. At the end of your free trial period, your trial subscription is automatically converted to a paid subscription. Your credit card isn't billed until the end of the trial period.
Before you begin
You don't need an existing Microsoft account to sign up for a freetrial. For all other procedures in this article, you must be a Global orBilling admin for your organization. For more information, see About admin roles.
Try a free trial subscription
Messenger sans facebook pour pc. Are you a new customer, and you don't already have an account withMicrosoft? Use these steps to create an account and sign up for a freetrial subscription of Microsoft 365 Business Standard, Microsoft 365Business Premium, or Microsoft 365 Apps for business.
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- Go to the Microsoft 365 Products site.
- Select the plan that you want to sign up for, such as Microsoft 365 Business Standard, scroll down the page, and select Try free for 1 month.
- On the next page, follow the steps to set up your account.
- The signup process may take several minutes to complete. After it's complete, you're ready to start the setup wizard for your subscription. For more information about setting up your subscription, see Next steps.
Buy a subscription from your free trial
At the end of your free trial period, your trial subscriptionautomatically converts to a paid subscription. The paid subscriptiondefaults to the plan you currently have. You can buy a different plan byfollowing the steps in Buy a different subscription.
If you want to buy your subscription before your trial is over, usethese steps:
- In the Microsoft 365 admin center, go to the Billing > Your products page.
- On the Your products page, find the subscription that you want to buy.
- In the Licenses section, select Purchase subscription.
- Choose either a monthly or annual commitment for your subscription, then select Checkout.
- On the next page, verify the subscription, and select Checkout.
- On the next page, verify the Sold to address, the Billed to information, and Items in this order. If you need to make any changes, select Change next to the applicable section.
- When you're finished, select Accept agreement & place order.
Cancel your free trial subscription
New vst plugins 2019. If you decide to cancel your trial subscription before the free trialperiod ends, go to the Microsoft 365 admin center and turn off Recurring billing. The trial will automatically expire when your month ends, and your credit card won't be charged.
Try a different subscription
If you already have a Microsoft 365 for business subscription, you can use the Microsoft 365 admin center to try a different subscription.
When you add a subscription through the Microsoft 365 admin center, the newsubscription is associated with the same organization (domain namespace)as your existing subscription. This association makes it easier to move users inyour organization between subscriptions, or to assign them a license forthe additional products they need.
Activate Office 365 Personal Subscription
- In the admin center, go to the Billing > Purchase services page.
- On the Purchase services page, you see the plans that are available to your organization. Choose the Microsoft 365 plan that you want to try.
- On the next page, select Get free trial. The trial gives you 25 user licenses for a one-month term.
- Choose to receive a text or a call, enter your phone number, then choose Text me or Call me.
- Enter the verification code, then select Start your free trial.
- On the Check out page, select Try now.
- On the order receipt page, select Continue.
Buy a different subscription
If you already have a Microsoft 365 for business subscription, you can go through the Microsoft 365 admin center to buy a different subscription for your organization.
When you buy another subscription through the admin center, the newsubscription is associated with the same organization (domain namespace) as your existing subscription. This makes it easier to move usersin your organization between subscriptions or assign them a license forthe additional subscription they need.
- In the admin center, go to the Billing > Purchase services page.
- On the Purchase services page, select the plan that you want to buy, select Details, then select Buy.
- Enter the number of licenses that you need and choose whether to pay each month or for the whole year. Choose whether you want to automatically assign licenses to everyone who does not currently have a license. Then select Check out now.
- Review the pricing information and select Next.
- Provide your payment information, and then select Place order > Go to Admin Home.
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You must move users from your free trial subscription to the new subscription before your 90-day grace period ends after your trial subscription expires. By doing this, you keep your data, accounts, and configuration. Otherwise, that information is deleted.
Try a different subscription
If you already have a Microsoft 365 for business subscription, you can use the Microsoft 365 admin center to try a different subscription.
When you add a subscription through the Microsoft 365 admin center, the newsubscription is associated with the same organization (domain namespace)as your existing subscription. This association makes it easier to move users inyour organization between subscriptions, or to assign them a license forthe additional products they need.
Activate Office 365 Personal Subscription
- In the admin center, go to the Billing > Purchase services page.
- On the Purchase services page, you see the plans that are available to your organization. Choose the Microsoft 365 plan that you want to try.
- On the next page, select Get free trial. The trial gives you 25 user licenses for a one-month term.
- Choose to receive a text or a call, enter your phone number, then choose Text me or Call me.
- Enter the verification code, then select Start your free trial.
- On the Check out page, select Try now.
- On the order receipt page, select Continue.
Buy a different subscription
If you already have a Microsoft 365 for business subscription, you can go through the Microsoft 365 admin center to buy a different subscription for your organization.
When you buy another subscription through the admin center, the newsubscription is associated with the same organization (domain namespace) as your existing subscription. This makes it easier to move usersin your organization between subscriptions or assign them a license forthe additional subscription they need.
- In the admin center, go to the Billing > Purchase services page.
- On the Purchase services page, select the plan that you want to buy, select Details, then select Buy.
- Enter the number of licenses that you need and choose whether to pay each month or for the whole year. Choose whether you want to automatically assign licenses to everyone who does not currently have a license. Then select Check out now.
- Review the pricing information and select Next.
- Provide your payment information, and then select Place order > Go to Admin Home.
Note
You must move users from your free trial subscription to the new subscription before your 90-day grace period ends after your trial subscription expires. By doing this, you keep your data, accounts, and configuration. Otherwise, that information is deleted.
Next steps
If you have a new account and are setting up your first subscription,you can use the guided setup articles to help you get started.
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If you already have a subscription and are adding a new subscription,you can move users to it. To learn how, see Move users to a different subscription.
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