Microsoft officially released Office 365 Home Premium and Office 2013 today. The subscription based Office 365 Home Premium version will go at $99.99 a year. In the press release announcing the new Office versions only three sentences are about Office 2013 which gives to think that Microsoft is betting on the subscription service. Office 365 Home Premium can be installed on five devices and gives you Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access.
With the $99.99 subscription of 365 Home Premium you’ll also get 20 GB of Skydrive storage and 60 minutes of free Skype calls per month. University or college students $79.99 for a four year subscription and a business edition will become available at the end of February this year.
Office 2013 is an improvement of Office as you know it and can be purchased directly from the Microsoft website where you are offered to download it. Prices are $139.99 for Home and Student, $219.99 for Home and Business and $399.99 for Professional. All come with at least Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote and give access to Office webapps that should allow to access, edit and share documents on multiple internet-connected device.
Also standalone versions of Word, Exel, Powerpoint and Outlook are available at $109.99 each. All will run on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 and optional language packs are available at $24.99.
The changes in each individual application seem to be minor apart from a new look for each of them. PowerPoint now supports more video formats and has feature to make sharing easier. Word will remember where you’ve left off reading, supports videos, has new templates and allows editing of PDF files.
The new Outlook has more integration of weather services and social media and Excel has new math functions, opens each workbook in its own window and a new Quick Analysis tool.
Everything is available just now from the Microsoft Store. Discuss this in our Windows Forum.
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23 Comments on Microsoft releases Office 2013 and 365 – wants you on $99 a year subscription
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Originally Posted by DukeNukem
The best was Office 2003.
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It has taken me 8 months to finally get use to it enough not to bash it anymore
As I use Publisher quite a lot at work, Office 2010 seems to have the best version of Publisher as I find it a lot quicker to align items in Publisher 2010 than 2007. On the downside, as of Office 2010, Microsoft has made Publisher only available in its expensive Professional package, where as previously it use to be bundled with the Office 2003/2007 Small Business Edition.
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Originally Posted by DukeNukem
I'll stick with my "free" copy of Office 2007, thanks. The best was Office 2003.
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Wombler
Whenever my copy of Office 97 no longer suits my needs then Open Office gets the nod. Should be sometime about 2025.
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Originally Posted by olddancer
$99 per year for software that is only OK, not happening.
Whenever my copy of Office 97 no longer suits my needs then Open Office gets the nod. Should be sometime about 2025. |
Ouch.,...lol... I paid only $10.00 for 2010 Office plus and that's all I had to pay and it's mine.... $99/yr you got shafted..... IMO
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Originally Posted by Wombler
I'm sticking with Office 2007 as that's also what we use in work and it currently meets all my needs.
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Office 365 $99.99 1 year licence for 5 systems.
Office Professional 2013 $399.99 is 4 year licence for 1 system. "You don't own it"
A new version of Office is released every ~2.2 years.
With 365 you get those new releases.
Office 365 Home Premium (from 2013 to 2023) = $ 999,90
Office Professional 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022 = $ 1,599.96
LibreOffice = Free but you're going to have to find a good substitute for Outlook, Publisher and Access
So if you need 2013 go with 365.
I'm still looking for 'new services' in all of these upgrades. I haven't done much more on a word-processor now than I did 20 years ago, although having the ability to do Word Balloons for User Manuals is a great feature in a word processor instead of a desktop-publisher. That's the new service that Office95 offered over WP 6.
Everything else seems cosmetic. I like being able to do a SAVE TO PDF, but that's called a PRINT TO function, not a more correct concept of SAVE TO.
What new services are people producing from Office 2007 or 2010 or 2013 that they weren't doing in OfficeXP, 2000, 2003? (Or even 95-98)?
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Originally Posted by ChristineBCW
Be sure to include the cost of Internet Service access, too. Those make $99 a year to be small-potatoes.
I'm still looking for 'new services' in all of these upgrades. I haven't done much more on a word-processor now than I did 20 years ago, although having the ability to do Word Balloons for User Manuals is a great feature in a word processor instead of a desktop-publisher. That's the new service that Office95 offered over WP 6. Everything else seems cosmetic. I like being able to do a SAVE TO PDF, but that's called a PRINT TO function, not a more correct concept of SAVE TO. What new services are people producing from Office 2007 or 2010 or 2013 that they weren't doing in OfficeXP, 2000, 2003? (Or even 95-98)? |
Libreoffice has Libreoffice Base included, similar to MSO's Access.
Still I don't know about compatibility, I've almost never used neither Access nor LO Base.
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Libreoffice has Libreoffice Base included, similar to MSO's Access. Still I don't know about compatibility, I've almost never used neither Access nor LO Base. |
There are people in my house that use Office that could probably get by with nothing more than Sublime Text and Google docs and be better off for it. But they swear they need the latest version of Office......
Except for the old lady she uses publisher and I don't think she could learn a new system. She still has trouble finding the power button and doesn't understand the concept of multiple windows or tabs.
I've also been lucky in that I haven't had to spend much $$ for Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2010, and I only upgrade because the costs of upgrading is so small, and if I don't like the latest version of Office, I can legally downgrade back to the previous version of MS Office and I'm set.
If it wasn't that the costs of upgrading was so cheap for myself, I'd probably still hang onto Office XP myself (LOL) or start using some of the Free stuff that's available since Office XP doesn't work (supposedly, some have managed to get the software to work) on Windows 7 or Windows 8..
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