Unfortunately the wow-factor of accessing Office on Demand is diminished when you learn it has to be a on a Windows PC. For one, she noted a slight delay in saving documents. When my colleague Yardena Arar tried out the Office on Demand feature she noticed a few snags when it came to usability. On top of that, you also get a few freebies including 60 minutes of international Skype calling per month and an extra 20GB of SkyDrive storage. When you get to $20 per PC (per year) for five PCs, compared to $700 to install Office Home and Student on five PCs, the subscription model becomes a no-brainer.įive PC installations for $100 a year is a pretty good deal. For those with two PCs, Office 365 will cost you $50 per PC, compared to paying $280 for the traditional desktop licenses needed for two PCs. The Office 365 subscription gets harder to resist the more PCs you have. To get the boxed version of Outlook 2013 you need to fork over another $80 for Office 2013 Home and Business. Office 2013 Home and Student, by comparison offers you just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for $140. With Office 365 Home and Business you get access to most apps from the Office suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, and Publisher.

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