The latter is up from $220 per user under the prior pricing. A household with three PCs or Macs, for instance, that plans on sticking with perpetual licenses for three years and wants Outlook, spends just $100 per user with Office 365 Home over that span, but $230 per user with Office Home & Business 2016. The higher prices of Office 2016 Home & Student and Office 2016 Home & Business make Office 365 slightly more compelling. company did not offer a reason for the price increases - or for that matter, even mention them in its Office 2016-is-available announcement - they were clearly driven by a desire to put Office 365 subscriptions in a better light. Microsoft duplicated those price increases for Office for Mac 2011 - and eliminated multi-license packages - also in early 2013, even though the suite itself had not changed.Īlthough the Redmond, Wash. Microsoft's price increase for Office 2016 perpetual licenses was the second since January 2013, when the company revamped its retail line-up and boosted prices by as much as 17%. All Office 365 plans, both consumer- and business-grade, also include rights to run the Office apps designed for Android, iOS and Windows 10 touch-centric mobile devices, including Android smartphones and tablets, iPhones and iPads, and Windows 10 touch-enabled tablets and notebooks. Office 365 Home is notable because it allows up to five installations of Office 2016 on PCs or Macs in the same household. On the consumer side, customers can choose between Office 365 Personal ($70 annually, $7 monthly) and Office 365 Home ($100 per year, $10 each month), while businesses have options that range from $99 to $240 per user per year. That's in contrast to Office 365, which requires a monthly or annual fee to continue using the software. The single-license, stand-alone editions are sold primarily at retail, and are dubbed 'perpetual' licenses because they require a one-time payment, but can then be used as long as the user wants. Office Professional 2016, available only for Windows, retained its $400 price tag.

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