Not sure what version of Office you're using or if you have Office 365? This Office support page (opens in new tab) will help you find out what version you're running and whether it's 32- or 64-bit. To get the promotion, open the Get Office app on Windows 10.
However, if you have Office 2010 or earlier and upgrade to Windows 10, you can get 50% off of a one-year Office 365 Personal subscription (so, $35 for the first year). Normally, Office 365 Personal costs $69.99 a year and includes all of the Office programs as well as 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage for one computer, one tablet, and one phone. Microsoft is offering deal to convince you to subscribe to Office 365.
What if you've recently bought a version of Office 2013 or Office for Mac 2011? If you activate or have activated the Office product between Augand December 31, 2015, you can get the equivalent Office 2016 version by paying $40 (opens in new tab). Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to manage customers, contacts, and. Publisher 2007 to produce professional publications. Word 2007 to create, manage, save, and edit documents. Office Professional 2016 includes all of the above plus Publisher and Access for $399.99. Microsoft Office 2007 Professional includes: Excel 2007 to analyze your business information, create spreadsheets, and track time, costs, resources, and people. A list of installed Microsoft Office applications will expand.
A list of applications on your Windows PC will appear. Office Home & Business 2016 costs $229.99 and adds Outlook. It’s in the task bar, which is usually at the bottom of the screen. If you don't want the yearly Office 365 subscription, here's how much the standalone suites cost: Office Home & Student 2016 costs $149.99 and comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. You have to either subscribe to Office 365 to get access to Office 2016 or buy a standalone version of Office 2016. Unfortunately, if you don't have an Office 365 subscription and already bought Office 2013 or an older version of Office as a one-time option, there is no upgrade option. His email address is more by Gregg Keizer on to Office 2016 from Older Versions of Office Follow Gregg on Twitter at on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Office for Mac Home and Student lists for $140, while the for-commercial-use Home and Business sells for $220.Ĭustomers, however, have less than three more years before Office for Mac 2011 falls off Microsoft's support list in January 2016.
They can also opt for a "perpetual" license of Office for Mac 2011, the traditional kind that is paid for once, but can be used as long as wanted. The consumer subscription plan, Office 365 Home Premium, costs $100 per year.
Yesterday, MacBU recommended that customers running Office for Mac 2004 migrate to Office 365, the line of subscription plans that lets users install Office for Mac Home & Business 2011 on up to five Macs. Office for Mac 2008 dropped support for Visual Basic macros, but that support was restored in Office for Mac 2011. Microsoft extended support for Office for Mac 2004 to allow its users, many of whom relied on Visual Basic-based macros, time to migrate to the impending Office for Mac 2011, which launched in October 2010. "This extension does not change the five-year support policy for other Office for Mac products, including future versions," a senior product manager said then. But Microsoft's last-minute reprieve of Office for Mac 2004 was a one-time deal, as the MacBU made plain at the time. The speedy retirement of Office for Mac 2008 is not new: Users faced the same five-year support lifespan for Office for Mac 2004, which was shut down in January 2012.Īdmittedly, that was over two years later than the original deadline. For consumer software, meanwhile, it states: "Microsoft will offer Mainstream Support for either a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product's general availability, or for 2 years after the successor product (N+1) is released, whichever is longer." "Microsoft will offer a minimum of 10 years of support for Business and Developer products," the company says. On its support lifecycle FAQ, Microsoft explains support for business and consumer software. At the same time it categorizes all editions of Office on OS X as consumer products. For some reason, Microsoft considers all editions of Office for Windows as business products, no matter that some - like Home and Student - cannot be used for commercial purposes.