Six different users can install the full desktop version of Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and so on) on however many devices they want.

It runs $99 per year, and this is what you get with it: Take the Office 365 Home subscription, for example. Yes, it might sound like a pain to pay yet another subscription fee, but believe it or not, it’s a pretty great deal. Office 365 Still Offers More Features and Is Probably a Better Deal It’s pretty clear that going forward, Microsoft is considering Office 365 the real version and Office 2019 pretty much an afterthought required for customers that have resisted the subscription model.

But it also starts digging at you a little bit and making it clear that you’re missing out if you’re not going with Office 365. Microsoft clearly designed Office 2019 as a stop gap for companies that aren’t ready to move to a subscription-based model. That screenshot above is from Microsoft’s Office 2019 landing page, and it starts right off with equivocating language: “For customers who aren’t ready for the cloud” is partly straight talk and partly subtle dark pattern manipulation. Microsoft Is Clearly Downplaying Office 2019

Why not avoid a subscription fee for Office 365 and buy a perpetual license? Well, there are a few reasons. The consumer version, Office Home & Business 2019, isn’t available yet, but Microsoft has announced the price-$249. You make a one time purchase, and you get to keep on using it as long as you want-on one PC or Mac. It’s just like Office was in the days before the subscription-based Office 365 was in play. Office 2019 is the stand-alone, perpetual license version of Office.

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