The Verge-"Microsoft is revealing the final pricing structure for its Office 2013 packages today. After introducing a preview of Office 2013 in July, Microsoft is planning to offer a subscription version of Office 2013, under the Office 365 Home Premium branding, for $8.33 per month ($99.99 per year). The subscription package will include all of the typical Office applications — including Outlook — but with the ability to use the software on five PCs or Macs. Microsoft is also bundling in 60 minutes of Skype world calling per month and an Office on demand feature that lets you stream the apps to Windows 7 or Windows 8 PCs. One additional benefit to the subscription version is the promise of regular updates and new features — Microsoft tells us "new capabilities will be added multiple times per year."
Microsoft has just announced major upgrades for OneNote for Mac and iOS. They're interesting upgrades and point to a future where Microsoft works on cross-platform development, offering everyone access to everything.
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Microsoft Office is old, very old. Should it really be the number one selling point for an operating system released in 2014?
I simply use OpenOffice. It does the job fine for my (very limited) needs. LibreOffice is supposedly also a great alternative.
So Microsoft Office is nowhere near being a system seller.
If MS wants me to buy new systems, they'd go back to bundling it with Windows 7.
@yi-long
you should rather use LibreOffice. OpenOffice was taken over by Apache who have since dwindled on support for it.
LibreOffice is where all the openOffice developers went and its much more supported and refined. the development times are faster and they actually listen to the community when it comes to adding features to later releases.
I dont have any gripes with windows 8 aside from the tablet-like UI. its just feels odd to scroll with a mouse when using your finger on the screen seems more suitable. (sucks for people who dont have touch screen laptops, which includes me). under the hood though, windows 8 is an upgrade. my thing is if they short of ideas for UI, just look at all the linux desktop themes and pick one.
but its because of the windows 8 UI gripes i actually switched to Linux (trying mint and ubuntu) and i must say, i shouldve switched over sooner. i only been using it for the last year, give or take few months, and i haven't felt the need to upgrade to a new Windows. dual booting between 7 and linux works fine for me.
Thanks KingPin, next time I'll install a freeware Office package, I'll choose Libre :)
For now, I basically only use OpenOffice as a very basic text-editor, so it will do :)
BIT: If you're considering switching to Microsoft Office 2013, you might be interested to know that the software will be getting its first big update when Service Pack 1 arrives "early next year".
I think the cost for microsoft office is too high .. for such few extra feature ......
Subscription? WTF Microsoft. No 2013 office for me. I dont see how business will need to upgrade, or justify upgrading, either.
And this is why I use Libreoffice....
>implying regular Internet users won't just pirate it anyway.
It sucks for those businesses that license it (I'm sure most will stay in 2003/2007 though).
lol subscribing to use Word and Excel... Dream on Microsoft.