Which Office to buy...

[Rhezuss]

In the process of upgrading my OS to Windows 8.1 and looking at following with Office. I see that Office 365 now cost an annual fee to use, and 365 Personal is 69.99 (not bad).

Is this the "new" way to go or can I still buy a one-shot Office Suite that I don't need to subscribe?

 

[PingviN]

Office 2013

 

[nickbits]

Office 2010. 2013 is worse IMHO

 

[Ketchup]

2010 is still my favorite. Subscriptions do have the advantages though.

 

[Berryracer]

I had a MS Office 2013 Home & Business Edition license which is a one time fee not a subscription based license but when I needed a few more licenses for my other family members, I decided to opt for the annual fee for 365 Office 2013 which is a great deal IMO as it not only allows you to install Office on 5 computers, but also 5 mobile devices like iPads or iPhones PLUS it gives you 60 mins free international calling minutes every month to use in Skype + the best of all, it gives each of the 5 users that use it a 1 TB storage space in OneDrive so that's on less subscription (Cloud Storage that is if you use it)

 

[Phynaz]

Office 365 student. $80 for 4 years.

 

[gmaster456]

Just buy the traditional license.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store...ode=37-20422531-2&WT.mc_id=US_datafeed_Google

 

[Berryracer]

Just buy the traditional license.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store...ode=37-20422531-2&WT.mc_id=US_datafeed_Google

That is not so great as it doesn't have MS Outlook, Access, Publisher, if one needs them

 

[Rhezuss]

Only need Word, PP and Excel... i'll look into that!

 

[bbhaag]

Do you have a Live account? If you do you can go to office.com sign in and use Word, excel, powerpoint, onenote, and a few other things for free. They aren't as fully featured as the installer and there is a little latency because it's online but over all not bad. Especially for home use.

You can save documents locally as well so don't worry about the "only available in the cloud". I've actually gone this route at home because well.....I'm cheap haha and I don't use Office much beyond the basic tasks.

 

[mrjminer]

Do you have a Live account? If you do you can go to office.com sign in and use Word, excel, powerpoint, onenote, and a few other things for free. They aren't as fully featured as the installer and there is a little latency because it's online but over all not bad. Especially for home use.

You can save documents locally as well so don't worry about the "only available in the cloud". I've actually gone this route at home because well.....I'm cheap haha and I don't use Office much beyond the basic tasks.

I tried it about 6 months ago and it was a pretty poor substitute. Extremely slow, and kept hitting a bunch of bugs and problems with formatting issues.

H&S will work for OP with only Word, PP, and Excel, or 365.

 

[bbhaag]

I already pointed out all those issues although I don't find it buggy. Anyway I was just throwing it out there for the OP to check out. Most people have a LIVE account or it takes less than 5 minutes to create one.
It's obviously not for everyone though.

 

[gmaster456]

That is not so great as it doesn't have MS Outlook, Access, Publisher, if one needs them

Is this stuff really that hard to find?

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store...ode=43-27240049-2&WT.mc_id=US_datafeed_Google

http://www.directdeals.com/store/p/...-jJYTlGuGehZgnjb-Yih-gkhOo2aa-jo4cBoCXl7w_wcB

 

[nemesismk2]

I really like OpenOffice4 which is LibreOffice. It's very fast to use and doesn't require so many updates.

 

[psychosiz]

If price is an issue try this, its Apache office and its free. I have used it and it's amazingly good considering its free.

http://openoffice.apache.org/

 

[mrjminer]

I already pointed out all those issues although I don't find it buggy. Anyway I was just throwing it out there for the OP to check out. Most people have a LIVE account or it takes less than 5 minutes to create one.
It's obviously not for everyone though.

Yea, I don't know if it was the server at the time or something. I literally only used it that one time and it was extremely slow and I kept hitting errors. My incident is probably isolated, since it was completely unusable when I tried it out. If you were even able to save a single file or do any kind of formatting without getting errors, then my event was just a one-off problem.

 

[JEDIYoda]

personally currently I am using Office 365. The monthly price is right. So no complaints...

 

[gammaray]

why not use live office or open office? both are free and do everything M$ office does...

 

[Rhezuss]

Good points about Open Office. I have a few friends that use it don't look back.

 

[gmaster456]

why not use live office or open office? both are free and do everything M$ office does...

No they don't, especially if you use Office in a professional setting. I would hate to be the guy that breaks a Macro or ruins the formatting because I was too cheap to buy office.


For a home setting however, Openoffice, Libre, Kingsoft etc. are all perfectly fine.

 

[lxskllr]

No they don't, especially if you use Office in a professional setting. I would hate to be the guy that breaks a Macro or ruins the formatting because I was too cheap to buy office.


For a home setting however, Openoffice, Libre, Kingsoft etc. are all perfectly fine.

I use LibreOffice in a professional setting, and it has nothing to do with cost. I use it because it's libre software. If my libre software breaks proprietary software, it isn't my problem. Clients get pdfs, and I don't care about anyone else.

 

[holden j caufield]

I had a MS Office 2013 Home & Business Edition license which is a one time fee not a subscription based license but when I needed a few more licenses for my other family members, I decided to opt for the annual fee for 365 Office 2013 which is a great deal IMO as it not only allows you to install Office on 5 computers, but also 5 mobile devices like iPads or iPhones PLUS it gives you 60 mins free international calling minutes every month to use in Skype + the best of all, it gives each of the 5 users that use it a 1 TB storage space in OneDrive so that's on less subscription (Cloud Storage that is if you use it)

is this just 5 activations or if I uninstall it on a tablet, can I install it on a pc. Sometimes I just need it on my tablet once or twice a month.

 

[Ketchup]

is this just 5 activations or if I uninstall it on a tablet, can I install it on a pc. Sometimes I just need it on my tablet once or twice a month.

I can go online and remove activations as needed. I am not sure if there is a limit for how often I can move the activation around.

 

[Meruem20]

im using office 2013..and it's the best

 

[Remobz]

Which is better for home user or small business?

Libre Office or Open Office?