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Just in the act of 'building' a new machine and am faced with the usual 'what office apps' conundrum. The last lot I bought and installed was Office 2007. I've been using this with Sugarsynch for years but it looks like something Alan Turing might have had a hand in these days.
Thinking of a 365 sub with 1tb of Onedrive at £40 p/a which in itself, is half what I've been (over) paying to Sugarsynch. I'm still a bit wary of subs vs buy as it feels like a way of sucking you in for a good screwing over later.
Views? Experiences? War stories? Other options (legal and mainstream as it's business) Please.
Other options (legal and mainstream as it’s business) Please.
Where are you finding Office 365 for business for £40? I can only find Office 365 Home/Personal for that price.
Q a tsunami of obscure and niche recommendations *grabs coffee
I bit the bullet a couple of years ago and pay a subscription to MS each month. I could jump through hoops (I have worked in IT since leaving Uni in 1991!) with different operating systems and apps etc but MS has pretty much a stranglehold so I pays my money and gets on with my life. 2 kids at Uni so we use OneDrive to share stuff including photos etc. Other good solutions exist for Cloud storage but given we all use Word and Excel (and I use Powerpoint and other 365 apps) I would be adding to my workload and those apps and the storage and shairing work very well.
Edit: are you a charitee to get that price
Edit: are you a charitee to get that price
I suspect he is using a family account as a business. It will of course function but will be against the T&C.
Even at the full price it's still a great deal. I used to 'support' a of lot of small orgs run by friends but there is less and less to do now if they are all on the same version of O365 and their machines are automatically backing up to OneDrive. One person had their machine die so I was able to take a 'spare' out of the cupboard, log them in, install Office from their account and let everything sync up. They were back up an hour later. It's really difficult to beat
Subs vs Buy? - Subs unless you are very short of cash. It saves the problem of people having slightly different versions and things moving around. It happens less now but it really is better. The only downside is that MS push their ****ing Teams app out every now and then with the updates 🙁
Sorry yes, family sub. I dint even realise they had different T's&C's. Business as in 'must be legit (not stolen) and mainstream' not 'is the scale of BP'...
The sub is the discounted one for use at home. I'll JFDI, it's a no brainer <sigh>
Argos for £40 down from £60 (1 yr, 6 'family' users) bundled with McAfee (discard) - delivery to your local click and collect. Apparently you can stack too (add multiple 12 month licenses to create a longer subscription) but I haven't tried it. Personally happy with 1 year subs as the main consumer (Mrs) might be in and out of education so could qualify for free subs in the future.
Q a tsunami of obscure and niche recommendations *grabs coffee
Yup: I use LibreOffice at home on both Linux and Windows, it's pretty much a straight office suite replacement, does the job.
Of course if you're looking at an online sub/cloud storage type office suite, there's Google Docs/slides/sheets/etc, integrates with google drive/gmail in much the same way office 365 does with one drive/sharepoint/outlook. It might not be quite as powerful/have all the features the MS suite does (I've not really used it in anger to find out) but it is free with a google account so probably worth a try first...
If you can get it for £40 a year I'd do that, the problem with 1 time purchase Home and Business Office was it didn't come with Outlook, but 365 does.
Single purchase is being phased out anyway, MS are fed up of resellers selling keys for £10, fed up of users installing it dozens of time and when you use 365 for any length of time and get tuned into the cloud elements, you won't go back.