Microsoft reveals Office 2013 pricing

[JMH]

Microsoft today has revealed the final pricing structure for all versions of Office 2013. The company decided to make available subscription-based and standalone packages of the latest version of Office. The subscription packages start at $99.99 for a year and allow installations on up to five Windows PCs or Macs. Standalone versions of Office 2013 start at $139.99 and are limited to one PC or Mac installation only.

This highlights Microsoft intention to drive users towards a subscription-based model as it is not only costing less but also offering more features than the standalone versions of Office. The biggest feature without doubt is the 5 PC or Mac license that Office 365 users get, but that is not the only benefit of the subscription model. Office 365 Home Premium, the smallest subscription-based model offers Outlook, Publisher and Access which only Office 2013 Professional is offering, and that version retails for $399.99.

Subscription-based users on top of that get 20 Gigabyte of SkyDrive storage (it is not clear if that is added on top of existing storage or a minimum that is made available to Office 365 users) and 60 Skype world minutes per month.

http://www.everything-microsoft.com/2012/09/17/microsoft-reveals-office-2013-pricing/

 

[Anthony N]

That's real grand... /sarcasm

Let's just make living more expensive than it already is.

I really don't get where businesses honestly think that disk-less operations save money.

I mean on a bulk scale, DVDs cost like .05 maybe even cheaper. Just like OEMs USED to send a recovery disk... Now you have to burn your own. Yeah, right... I'm going to trust a cheap burner to successfully copy the OS. I'd rather just start over from fresh.

With a new, unaltered copy of windows. I try to get decent recordable disks for ISOs of linux, but still even then, a good burn is risky.