Office Home & Student 2013, separate to a subscription and available at $139.99, only includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote - nixing the popular Outlook email software found in the subscription package.
If you're not a fan of annual subscriptions then the monthly option is $9.99 or there are standalone bundles. Microsoft is also bundling 20GB of additional SkyDrive cloud storage and 60 minutes of Skype calls per month. A $99.99 per year subscription to Office 365 will provide access for five installs of Office 2013 on Mac or PCs with access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. Much like Windows 8 and Adobe's Creative Cloud, Microsoft is attempting to reinvent its Office software for 2013 and the years ahead. Some emerging markets will still offer DVD versions, but the majority of users will be downloading Office this time around. Microsoft is simply boxing up product codes in familiar packaging for Office 2013 and Office 365, allowing users to go online to download the software. However, there's a big change this time: in the US, UK, and other developed markets, those boxed copies won't include a DVD of the software. Starting today, boxed copies of Office 2013 and Office 365 subscriptions will be available in retail stores across 162 countries and online at. It's an important change for the company, but convincing users to pay an ongoing monthly or annual charge for its latest Office is going to be a hard sell, and the company is very much aware of that - treading carefully in its march towards the cloud.Ī boxed copy won't include a DVD, it's online only The software giant, synonymous with Office and Windows, is aiming to turn users over to a subscription package with its latest offering: Office 365. Microsoft is taking the wraps off its most ambitious Office project today.
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