Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows/Mac

Office Professional Plus isn't available on the consumer market. Only Office Professional (not Plus) is available through retail channels, at a cost of ~£400. 'So what?' I hear you say. Well, ProPlus can only be obtained through business volume licensing and also schemes which use volume licenses as their basis (MS Action Pack, MS Partner scheme, TechSoup, SPLA, companywide enterprise agreement, academic agreement, to name a few).

OK, and now I hear you asking why it even matters who it was intended for - you're paying for it, so MS are getting the money, right?

Nope. Firstly, it's important to realise that most businesses (charities/academic generally excepted) pay hundreds of pounds for each copy of Office ProPlus through legitimate channels (via distributors). It's not hard to work this out - businesses are one of Microsoft's most lucrative customers. Just look at the comparative prices of Office 365 consumer vs Office 365 business as an example.

Secondly, as I mentioned before, there are numerous schemes that use volume licensing as their basis. These provide a thousands of Office activations for the end user company using a single key, on the basis that actual usage is reported back to Microsoft on a trust basis. The benefit to the end user company is that it is easier to manage a companywide deployment using a single MAK key. Most of the time, no-one is checking the use of the keys, but sometimes Microsoft picks up on odd use of keys because they are being activated at a rate that doesn't fit with what the end user company profile is paying for. In this instance they provide replacement keys to the company and revoke the old key.

So when an activation key gets leaked, this is exactly the type of site that they end up on. The key is a real key, but don't kid yourself it's any more legitimate than just downloading a free copy from usenet or torrents. It may continue to work fine forever, if the key hasn't been re-sold too many times to raise suspicion with Microsoft.

I sell Microsoft licenses to businesses as part of my job. I have access to plenty of keys with thousands of activations available on them. Can I use them for myself? No. And if I sold one of those keys to someone to let them activate office, would they have a legit copy of office? Of course not. It would show as activated, but this doesn't mean they have bought a licence to use the software. (edited)

I paid £5 for mine from Electronics First and £6 for win 11 pro and all was approved by Microsoft as official keys (edited)

I bought a cheap key once for Office 365. It worked fine for a while. To all intents and purposes it was a genuine key. Turned out it was a key from an educational establishment licence, I don't remember what it was called, but where someone buys a licence for a whole site and the machines all get the same key. It was stopped by Microsoft who presumably recognised that while it was genuine, it was obtained not under the terms of the license.

My recollection was that it was dodgy from day 1 as I could not choose my own email address or domain, that was all supplied with the key and was presumably the domain the licence was attached to.

Be aware that this becomes End Of Life next year:
learn.microsoft.com/en-…019
This doesnt mean it'll stop working, but you'll cease to get security patches.
This might not mean much to some of you, but if you care about security then just consider.

Office 2021 becomes EOL only 1 year later (2026).

The cheaper ones usually say that its a one time cdkey that may deactive if you change PC components or reinstall windows. Not sure how certain it is that it would not active on reinstalling windows because you can usually bind it to your microsoft account?
I've had great lasting success with windows cdkeys from gamers outlet for litrally a few £

Support ended

learn.microsoft.com/en-…019 (edited)

A site I have used in the past and trust CJS Cd Keys has the 2021 version for £18.99 and the Mac equivalent of Office 2019 for £19.99 I can't link as the domain is banned on here.... (edited)

I still use the 2016 version at home, does all I need to do. Prefer it over the most up to date version that we use at work!

Does anyone know where to get Adobe Acrobat DC or other similar version (just for editing PDF file). for lifetime licence less than £15 ?? It is just for single personal use and not for business. Thx (edited)

Edit, added later: I have bought 3 items from Stacksocial before... lifetime subs each for a VPN, cloud storage & adblocking software - all good.
It's just items like this sold via a thirdparty that don't ring true due to large-scale pirating of Microsoft software, hence my concern. Although I'm happy to be proved wrong in time.

Original post..
Please don't be fooled at these prices, probably not genuine - licence could be blocked in the future despite initially activating & working fine for a while.
Might as well risk it with others for much less if you don't mind going down the cheap route...
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Much better than a subscription deal. (edited)

All the people who said is not genuine is just personal opinion, they can not prove it. Why would anyone want to care other people personal opinion ?? Even it is not working after you are using it for a while how much did you lose if you payed less than £10 or even £5??

Whether it is from stacksocial, electronic first, cjs-cdkeys you bought it from legit sellers. It is not your duty to investigate whether they are breaching the contract, or not. All you are interested is whether the software is working or not and you could use it. And the most important here is that you are just a small guy, not a business. You are not making profit out of them but you just refuse to pay that amount as you will still need to make sure you have food on the table, your energy bills, transport is paid. (edited)

Expired :-( Well it won't let me linking this .... (edited)

Does this have the designer feature on PowerPoint?

Genuine question. On Mac, why do people use this instead of Apple Pages, Numbers etc. ? Apple Pages opens and edits Word files. Is there any benefit to using it over the built in software provided for free by Apple?

The only thing I can think of is collaboration with people that don’t use Apple devices. But other than that, can’t really think of anything. Genuinely interested as I stacked Office 365 which is expiring in a few months and don’t know whether there’s a hidden gem that I’m missing out on by not using instead of Pages.

How do you get it for 23.90? Mine says 29.90?

Can this key be used again in case of moving to a new PC?

Beware of this crowd. They show a price, but when you purchase, they add tax, duty and 'shipping' (for your online purchase!!) and charge you the full amount before you can stop them. :-(

Hello. Great deal. I already have Office 365 web version on my Mac (approx £6 p/month). I mostly use web apps but occasionally have the need to use desktop apps ( word and excel). Im successfully using Outlook on the free desktop app, but the other MS apps won’t work as I need to ‘upgrade’. If I get this key will it sync with my subscription and OneDrive etc? Thank you