This cycle's promotion is a more miserly deal than Microsoft has offered before.

Office 365 Personal does not include rights to use the Office 2016 applications for commercial - read, business - work. Read our initial hands-on with the software here.Office 365 Personal is a consumer-grade plan that lets the subscriber install one copy of Office 2016 on a Windows device or Mac. You can purchase Office 2016 for Mac outright for $150 now via Microsoft’s website. The apps are also all now optimized for devices with Retina displays. The software also includes enhanced cloud functionality, including the ability for multiple users to collaborate on documents in real time when using the same app on different platform, including Mac, iPad, or PC. Office 2016 for Mac features a redesigned suite of apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Business plans start at $5 per users and increase in increments up to $12.50 per user, depending on what features you want. Instead, organizations are required to sign up for an Office 365 plan. Microsoft this time around is not offering a standalone business plan for Office. Both of those prices are up $10 from the previous versions of Office and for single licenses, as Microsoft continues to push users towards Office 365 plans. Office 365 subscribers get 1 terabyte of space. Office Home & Business 2016 for Mac is also available for $229.99 and includes Outlook. With the purchase, you’ll also get 15GB of OneDrive storage. Purchasing Office 2016 for Mac without an Office 365 subscription will run you $150 for a Home & Student license, which lacks Outlook. Today, however, Microsoft has released a standalone version of Office 2016 for Mac, allowing anyone to purchase the software outright. Update (via ): MacMall has Office Home and Student 2016 for $139.99 ($10 off) or Business for $20 off) with Tax in a few states.Īfter teasing it at the beginning of this year, Microsoft made Office 2016 available for Mac earlier this summer, but only for those that had an Office 365 subscription, which runs $9.99/mo or $100/year.

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