My big question is, say I buy this for myself, my wife who has her own live account and Hotmail --- can she use it with her Live account if I install one of the 5 licenses I have on her computer? I imagine not, so that means those of my family who have their own hotmail, if they want to use the whole experience, each one has to pay $99!
Individual experiences. Speaking of which, while you do use a single Microsoft account to create an Office 365 subscription, each of the family members who installs Office on their own PCs will sign in with their own Microsoft account and get the personalized experience I wrote about recently, including their own settings sync, recent documents sync, SkyDrive access, and more.
According to Thurrott
http://winsupersite.com/office-365/office-365-home-premium-review
Which seems similar to the MAS model.
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Begun the cloud subscriptions have.
I've been using the trial for a while now and it seems like a watered down version of office that has a tablet interface focus to it.
Like Windows 8, I think I am going to skip this one.
A bigger issue is people use Excel as a database. Its not a database!
They need to make it for all platforms. This is the stupid thinking that is hurting Microsoft. They need to make software not hardware.
Read the name. Microsoft.
Even if the Surface could catch up to the iPad in sales that would take years. In the meantime you are throwing away millions, and possibly billions of dollars in sales. All because Ballmer is an idiot who has forgotten what Microsoft was founded on.
Office 365 is obviously aimed at folks that depend and use Office frequently.
What will your company do in May 2014? My understanding is that XP will be end-of-life'd in April 2014. That means no more security updates or and fixes whatsoever.My workplace of over 110,000 employees still uses Office 2003 and XP.
If it ain't broke...
Have some perspective. Most users don't even use 10% of Word or Excel's features. Yes Excel (even the Mac version) has many more features than iWork, but that doesn't mean that iWork doesn't meet the needs of a large amount of Office users.
We actually use Google Docs (for hosted domains) at work. It's simple, shares well and has good data connectivity (XPATH support, etc).
Which reminds me, when will Apple finally update iWork?
This has to be the biggest missing upgrade joke besides the MacPro.
I really don't see how they can have 137 billion in the bank and not upgrade the Mac version of iWork for four years. The iOS version is nice for viewing stuff but not actual productive work
This "subscription" stuff is for the birds. No thanks.
There is no obvious way to save's Microsoft business. The future is moving away from Windows, and they're going to be a shell of the company that they were when that happens. There are lots of problems that all relate to one thing: uncompetitive products. Customers today expect more both from the software and the hardware, and they expect a level of quality that is above what PC OEMs are creating today. One of the big problems is actually hardware-related: customers expect thin and light (i.e. ARM-based) devices, but they also want lots of apps. Microsoft has a large existing app catalogue, but that necessitates the thicker, heavier, more power hungry Intel processors. There's not one simple thing that Microsoft can do to fix this; it's a big collection of things.
Open Office is Open Ugly though.
Office 365 is obviously aimed at folks that depend and use Office frequently. Many of you criticizing the service are not intended audience. As for me, I use only Excel frequently (which I don't love, but alternatives are just much worse for my needs) so it isn't for me.
Having said that, subscription-based cloud model seems to be the trend. Adobe Creative Cloud at $600/year (for access to $2800 worth of software + cloud services) and Microsoft Office 365 at $100/year (for access to $400 worth of software + cloud services).
I actually wouldn't mind Apple joining the party. Consumer subscription that bundles iApps (about $220 worth of iOS apps and iLife, iWork, and OS X) + 15GB iCloud storage for $60/year. And professional subscription that adds all the pro apps (about $1000 worth of apps, including Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and OS X Server) and 50GB iCloud storage for $200/year.
If you use all of the apps, it would take 4 years or so to break even, but good side benefit is that you get larger cloud storage that integrates more tightly than Dropbox and always having access to the latest version of apps.
That's Office 2010 you're showing, not 2011.
Does this mean Microsoft doesn't care about Macs ?
Putting their 'best foot forward' to cater for Windows in every possible way, "we'll get round to Apple eventually, but they have a version to keep them happy"
It would be different if it was only a few months apart, but this ?
Not happy.