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Currently contemplating a move to Office 365 Home as the 5 devices plus phones/tablets will satisfy all requirements.
Direct from MS this subscription is £79 for the year. However I can buy "boxed" 1 year subscription packs for as little as just over £60.

Any reason why I cannot simply buy a new boxed 1 year subscription each year and add it to my account? Saving £18 each year....well £18 is better in my pocket than Microsoft's.
 
I bought an unused Office 365 code from someone on the members market. It simply added 12 months to my subscription - there is a page on my Microsoft login that shows how long is left on the subscription. After that ran out the regular monthly amount was taken out again.

So yes, i think you can just buy the "box" and save a few quid.
 
Can you still buy a permanent licence - even £60 a year sounds a lot
[ I have an older 2010 office license and temporarily had a 365 token from a linx tablet and might consider updating, to the improved post ribbon product ]
Using office on anything other than a pc/laptop with a keyboard & +13" screen feels cumbersome to me so one license for a household , and using google apps on the others works, although I have not investigated practicalities of exchanging data between google and office.
 
jpaul said:
Can you still buy a permanent licence - even £60 a year sounds a lot
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Yes - a single PC license for Office 2016 Home & Student is about £100. If you want to upgrade to 2018 (or whatever, if/when it comes out) then you will have to pay again.

If you go for the Office 365 subscription model, it's about £40/year for 1 PC or £65/year for 5 PCs. If you want office on more than 1 PC, and you would upgrade to the latest version when it comes out, the subscription model might work out better. Plus you get some Skype minutes & maybe some onedrive space?

I do slightly object to turning more things into subscriptions, but for me £65/year didn't seem ridiculous, given free upgrades and 5 licenses.
 
Thanks for pricing information.

for add-ons, I found one drive was very slow (opened a thread on here), also only this week (365 ran out last month), I signed on for localphone which has a very competitive pay as you go voip system (need to install a 3rd party free voip phone) 0.5p land/1.8p mobile,france/eu 0.6p land - the skype 60mins/month had no carryover and some months I had too few, calling the eu prinicipally, call quality seems better than skype.

After thought : whether microsoft will soon try out the office 365 subscription model for windows >10
 
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There is no money in charging consumers for OS's any more. They have been giving away Windows licenses since Windows 8.

Most people won't buy Windows any more anyway, as most people buy a pre built machine which will come with a perpetual Windows license already.

The Office 365 subscription is more than just Office though, its also the Outlook side plus the OneDrive storage, and its that which you pay for mainly. My O365 Home subscription has allowed me to put Office on multiple machines across my family and has meant I can ditch a previously complex and difficult to manage backup solution with OneDrive. Well worth the money.
 
stoofa said:
Currently contemplating a move to Office 365 Home <snippity>

Any reason why I cannot simply buy a new boxed 1 year subscription each year and add it to my account? Saving £18 each year....well £18 is better in my pocket than Microsoft's.
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No reason not to... I've got 3 years stacked up right now, off the back of cheap deals and ones from the MM on here. Incredibly useful for myself, herself and the other 3 family members that need to use it... price works well as we spread it among us all.
 
Thanks for the posts.
For our situation the 365 Home works well. The wording on the license mentions "family" but doesn't mention their requirement for them to all be under the same roof.
So you're allowed it on 5 PC's or MAC's, 5 Tablets and 5 phones.

My PC, my wife's laptop & tablet. My mothers PC, My brother's PC, my sister-in-laws laptop, sister-in-laws tablet.

My mother, brother and myself go 3 ways on a subscription (as far as I ca tell as the account holder I can create sub-accounts for all the other users).
With the boxes being available for around £63, that is £21/year each for Office which really isn't too bad.
Just wanted to be sure I could keep on adding the £63 boxes each year rather than the £80 online subscription cost.
 
During this discussion we did not mention the MS home use program, I had this with a previous employer and for nominal sum you could have an office license for home, equally I believe it maybe NHS employees + other government organisations ? who can benefit.
Is there a special deal for students too ?
 
Students (validated via an ac.uk) can get 365 Home, however it is limited to two installations and they cannot be shared. However £59 for a 4 year subscription is great value.
MS Home Use is fine if you work for a company that can offer it - but that is the minority rather than majority.
Also each employee is only allowed to purchase a single copy for home use and it is for use by that employee, once again no sharing.
 
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