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[Closed] What is Microsoft Office 365?
I am buying a laptop for each of my two oldest kids, and am wondering about an office suite for them. Vendors seems to offer MS Office Home/Student or Office 365, but I have never heard of the latter.
Does a person have to be online in order to actually create a Word document?
I mean, I have used Google Docs before, and although it was theoretically possible to create docs when I wasn't online, I could never be bothered.
What say you? Is 365 a viable suite for two teenage boys? Are they going to be absolutely anchored to a wifi connection?
I would buy the former MS Office Home/Student ... think Office 365 is an attempt to extract more cash off you.
When I brought Office Home, it was a license for 3 installs, so check before you buy 2 copies.
365 is a yearly subscription service. Once the year is up you can open your documents but not edit/save changes. I think it also needs to phone home to check you are legit and still subscribed every time you fire part of it up. (Wired connection at work so have never tested the need to be on-line).
Office 365 is a subscription product. You pays 80 quid a year and you get to install Office on up to 5 machines in your house and you get updates all the time. But you are paying your 80 quid every year. It's a good deal if you have a few machines in your house as folks tend to do now
Home and student is about 100quid a copy and you can only install it on one machine now unlike previous years where you could install it on up to 3 I think
Check out the various free office suites - if they are not doing massive spreadsheets or desktop publishing stuff, then the free ones are very good.
My dad runs Libre office, and reckons it is ace.
I got the student/academic version of 365. It cost £59 for a four year licence (and 12 months of xbox live gold thrown in) and I think covers two PCs. Don't know if it covers school students as well, but the website was pretty straight forward. Just needed ac.uk email to validate.
I don't think it needs to be onkine to work - but I'm never not.
Yep check out Libre/Open office and google docs.
Home and student can go on more than one machine just you can't use it on more than one machine concurrently. It checks around the local network and compares serial numbers before allowing you to play.