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Posted 23 November 2022
MICROSOFT Office Home & Student 2021 - Lifetime for 1 user - £79.99 @ Currys
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Home and Student Office has dropped in price for Black Friday for those that want Office but dont want to subscribe to M365
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Edited by a community support team member, 23 November 2022
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sorted byI assume 1 device means if I log into my microsoft account on my laptop I can't use word/excel/powerpoint as it will be already on my PC? Or is it 1 device at a time? I have read conflicing things from Microsoft. (edited)
There used to be an allowance that you could put it on a desktop and a laptop as long as the laptop was used less than 20% of the time of the desktop, but as more people got laptops that was dropped.
Now if you have a desktop and a laptop you need two copies (or subscribe to o365 that allows you up to 5 desktop or laptop installs, and can be Windows or Mac, as long as you only use it in one place at a time)
Businesses almost universally use Office, and collaborating and sharing between Office and any of the open source versions can sometimes be hit and miss especially if it’s one of the lesser used features in Office.
For most people that’s true, for some people it’s not.
Businesses almost universally use Office, and collaborating and sharing between Office and any of the open source versions can sometimes be hit and miss especially if it’s one of the lesser used features in Office. (edited)
Googling now but can't see much of anything.
o365 is a subscription, H&B is about £250 for a perpetual licence.
o365 family is the bargain. Office for up to 6 users, and 1TB of storage each user. And at £80 rrp (you can often get it bundled with AV for less) that’s £20 per user per year for an average family of four. For me the 1tb one drive is worth that alone, getting office thrown in too is a bargain.
Some schools and workplaces may allow you to download Office (depends what licences they have). Most organisations now use the o365 subscription model so office use is tied to the student being in school /staying as an employee and the software will usually end into reduced functionality mode when the student/employee leaves and the account closed with Microsoft.
This one off purchase only allows an install on one device, and is Word, PowerPoint and Excel. It should not be used in a business environment, although I doubt anyone’s going to check.
o365 offers a little more, like outlook, 1TB OneDrive storage, 60 mins to landlines in most countries via Skype as well as the ability to install one up to multiple devices so you can use Office on phones and tablets but it is a subscription and is payable yearly.
If you just need a word processor look at the free Libra Office or Open Office suites. They do pretty much all of what the Microsoft suites can do, but sometimes if you have to share files back and forth with other makes of Office Suites, the formatting can get messy.