![]() ![]() If you're using Office professionally, you can get a download 1-computer copy of Office 2011 Home and Business for just under $200, or there's a few copies of the original 2-computer boxed copy of Office 2011 Home and Business for $299. That's $40/Mac, and if you use it for 4 years without buying an upgrade, that'll cost $10/Mac/year. That'll get you Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for up to 3 Macs in the same house for ~$120. The good thing is, there's still copies of the original Office 2011 Home and Student Family Pack on Amazon, and it'll still get all of the latest updates. Mac users don't have a new version of Office yet, but even still, the existing version of Office got slapped with the same 1 computer per copy of Office restriction. If you want real Office that you own, for good, then there's still options. If you'd buy Office upgrades each time they come out, it likely won't work out more expensive, but you have to consider the best for you. The only problem is, you don't really own Office, and can't use it forever. So, all of those are decent options if you have a lot of computers to use with Office, and if you want Microsoft's other services anyhow. It lets you essentially stream the full-featured app, downloading the features you need as you need them, so you can use full Office anywhere. Oh, there's one more awesome feature in all versions of Office 365: you can run Office - full Office - from the web if you're away from your computer (though it only works on PCs). I'm actually considering giving the cheaper option a shot for my own domain's email, and have an upcoming AppStorm series about it. You can check through the options and see what works for you. You can get hosted Exchange email for your team starting at $4/month, and can get Office for your employees (and yes, they'll each be able to run it on up to 5 devices) for $12.50/month. If you're running a business, Office 365 for Business makes a fairly compelling choice as well if you do need Office, or even if you just need hosted email. ![]() That'd work out to around $10/computer/year. Students get Office 365 University even cheaper: $79.99 for 4 years of Office 365 for 2 computers. If you'd pay for Skype and extra Skydrive storage as well, and have 5 computers in your household, it works out to around $14/computer/year. ![]() You'll get full Office - Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, as well as Access and Publisher on a PC. For $9.99/month or $99.99/year, you can run Office on up to 5 computers (Macs or PCs), get 20Gb extra Skydrive storage (a $10/yr value, though even that's way cheaper than, say, extra Dropbox storage), and 60 minutes of Skype calls per month (worth around $20/yr). The first option - and easily the best if you have more than two or three computers - is Office 365 Home Premium, Microsoft's new subscription for Office.
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