- OFFICE 365 PRICING PATCH
- OFFICE 365 PRICING SOFTWARE
- OFFICE 365 PRICING PLUS
- OFFICE 365 PRICING PROFESSIONAL
OFFICE 365 PRICING PROFESSIONAL
These should become available simultaneously with the Office launch in late January.If you purchase our Advanced Security or Business Professional plan, you'll get the latest Office apps, featuring the latest versions of the desktop applications you know and love - Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access (PC only), OneNote and Publisher. Microsoft officials said late last year the company would be offering a number of new Office 365 SKUs and pricing plans. On the business front, Microsoft also is trying to convince customers to go the service/subscription route. This is what's known as Office 365 Home Premium. The company is putting a heavy emphasis on convincing not just business customers, but also consumers, to go the subscription/service route, rather than purchasing a single copy of one or more Office products with perpetual-use licenses. On the consumer front, the Office team is trying to make it more enticing for users to pay a "rental" fee for the new Office, allowing them the right to download Office products locally on up to five PCs and MacsĪnd use them for a year. , Office 365 and its Microsoft-hosted Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online offerings - at that time, officials have said. Microsoft also will start making its new Office services - its updated Office Web Apps But as of the upcoming launch, the new Office will be preloaded on certain new PCs and available for purchase commercially. The products still are not available commercially to those without access to those channels. Since that time, the Softies have made the final bits available to subscribers on MSDN, TechNet Microsoft released to manufacturing (RTM'd) its latest Office client and server products
OFFICE 365 PRICING PLUS
OFFICE 365 PRICING PATCH
This looks to be the complete Office 2013 line-up, based on what I've seen updating lately as part of Patch Tuesday: The packages listed on the slide above are not an exhaustive list of the coming Office 2013/Office 365 SKUs. (We already knew Home & Student 2013 would be $139 and Home & Business 2013 would be $219.) (Microsoft officials disclosed the planned pricing for a few of its upcoming Office 365 SKUs last year.)īut as of now, we know for sure that Office Standard 2013 will be priced at $369 and Office Professional Plus 2013 at $499, based on this week's partner disclosure. The SKUs listed along the bottom are non-subscription, buy-once/install-on-a-single-device prices. Microsoft shared this slide with some of its partners this week:Įverything here that is labeled as an Office 365 SKU will be priced on a subscription basis. However, it turns out these prices for some of the "hero" Office 365 and Office 2013 SKUs, were, indeed, accurate. When I asked Microsoft at the time (and a few times later) to confirm the prices, company officials declined to do so, leading some to speculate that the leaked pricing might not be final. In preparation for the launch, Microsoft has been educating its reseller and integrator partners as to what to expect, pricing- and packaging-wise.Ī chart detailing some of the expected Office 2013/New Office prices The newest version of Office - known both as "the new Office" and "Office 2013" - will be commercially available on that date. Microsoft is believed to be ready to launch its next-generation Office product within the next few weeks, possibly before the end of January
OFFICE 365 PRICING SOFTWARE
As expected, Microsoft is pricing its next-generation Office 2013 line-up in a way to try to convince users to pay an annual subscription fee - with multiple-device-installation rights as a carrot - instead of buying the Office 2013 software outright.