2004-7-11  Microsoft Office Worth It? Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by Guitarius, Jul 10, 2004. Most Liked Posts. Including the people I live with use PCs and Microsoft Office, I was wondering if getting a copy of Office for my mac would be worth it? I'm happy with AppleWorks, but since we are constantly sharing files. If you’re shopping for multiple users, Office 365 works out cheaper again. Yes, the monthly fee is $9.99 but you’re getting access for 5 users across PC, Mac, mobile and tablet.

Follow Yesterday, Microsoft the consumer version of its Office 2013 suite, which it. 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). 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, 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 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.

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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 youwell, 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.