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The Cheapest Ways to Get Microsoft Office for Your Mac or PC Today Techinch tech, simplified. • • • The Cheapest Ways to Get Microsoft Office for Your Mac or PC Today Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 There's two expensive application suites that are almost considered a necessity to have on your computer: Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite. Many find ways around paying for the latter (alternate apps work, there's the cheaper apps that work for most stuff, and such), but Office is a bit trickier.

Especially this year. After releasing Office 2013 for Windows and the new Office 365 subscription version of Office, traditional Office pricing has gone up. Used to, all editions of Office let one user install Office on up to two computers, which worked great if, say, you had a desktop and a laptop. Then, the Home and Student edition let you install Office on up to 3 computers in the same household, which was a great deal for families. With Office 2013's release, now all editions of both Office 2013 and Office 2011 for Mac are only licensed to be installed on one computer. At least you're still allowed to if you need to, something Office 2013 oddly didn't allow at first.

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The Cheapest Way to Get Office Today So, if you want to purchase Office today, and not get it as part of a subscription, then here's your options: Office Web Apps I know, I know: it's not real Office, but it's close enough for basic use, and it's free. It's the best option if you really need to go cheap on Office. Check out my full review of the at Web.AppStorm, or go try them out for yourself at. You might be surprised. Real Office Ok, so you want real Office to install on your computer?

Here's the options today: • Office 356 - the subscription version of Office for Mac and PC • Office 2011 for Mac • Office 2013 for PC • Office 2010 for PC Office 365 The first option — and easily the best if you have more than two or three computers — is, Microsoft's new subscription for Office. 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). You'll get full Office - Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, as well as Access and Publisher on a PC.

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. Students get even cheaper: $79.99 for 4 years of Office 365 for 2 computers. That'd work out to around $10/computer/year. If you're running a business, makes a fairly compelling choice as well if you do need Office, or even if you just need hosted email. 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. You can and see what works for you. I'm actually considering giving the cheaper option a shot for my own domain's email, and have an upcoming AppStorm series about it.

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). 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. That's pretty nifty.

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. The only problem is, you don't really own Office, and can't use it forever. It's a subscription. 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. If you want real Office that you own, for good, then there's still options.