Microsoft has announced the pricing of its upcoming Office releases, Office 2013 and Office 365. The latter is a cloud service and comes as a subscription service where Microsoft allows you to use it on 5 PCs. Office 365 Home Premium comes with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access and Publisher, 20GB of Skydrive space and gives you 60 minutes world calling on Skype. This package will be $8.33 per month ($99.99 billed annually) and Microsoft promises that it will release new capabilities to the software multiple times a year.
The Office 365 Small Business Premium version comes with the same applications but adds Lync to Publisher. Besides that, it comes with a 25 GB Outlook mailbox, 10 GB profressional grade cloud storage for the company plus 500 MB per user. It also has the ability to host online meetings with HD video and to set up, build and maintain a public website. Also this package comes with new capabilities added multiple times per year. This package will be $12.50 per user per month ($149.99 billed anually).
Office 2013 is like the Office suites as we're used too. It will also allow you to save to Skydrive and parts are also cloud based, but you are only allowed to use it on a single machine and you won't get additional Skydrive space and Skype minutes. Prices start at $139.99 for Office Home and Student 2013 which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office Home and Business 2013 includes all the applications in Home and Student plus Outlook. Office Professional 2013 includes the applications in Home and Business plus Access and Publisher. In addition, Office Home & Student 2013 RT comes on all Windows RT devices and includes fully featured editions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote optimized for ARM devices.
