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Tiffany Kaiser - January 29, 2013 3:58 PM

28 comment(s) - last by johnsmith9875.. on Feb 5 at 3:59 PM

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The business versions of the new Office will launch February 27

Microsoft released Office 365 today as a subscription, cloud-based service that costs only a little over $8 per month.

Office 365 Home Premium costs $99.99 per year and features Word, Excel, Outlook, Access and Publisher. It also comes with 20GB of cloud storage in SkyDrive and 60 minutes of worldwide calling through Skype per month.

This version works with up to five desktops, tablets and laptops, and will receive automatic updates since it's cloud-based.

“Today’s launch of Office 365 Home Premium marks the next big step in Microsoft’s transformation to a devices and services business,” said Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. “This is so much more than just another release of Office. This is Office reinvented as a consumer cloud service with all the full-featured Office applications people know and love, together with impressive new cloud and social benefits.”

Microsoft also launched a few other versions of Office today, including Office 365 University, which is $79.99 for four years and up to two PCs or Macs, and offers all the same features as Office 365 Home Premium; Office Home and Student 2013, which is $139.99 for one PC and offers Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote without any Office 365 extras; Office Home and Business 2013, which is $219.99 for one PC and offers the same features as Office Home and Student 2013 (but includes Outlook), and Office Professional 2013, which is $399.99 for one PC that offers the same features as Office Home and Business 2013 but with Access and Publisher.

The business versions of the new Office will launch February 27.

Source: Microsoft

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1970s General Motors

By christojojo on 1/30/2013 7:47:39 PM , Rating: 2

Does anyone else feel the same about Microsoft? Like they have some great years ahead of them but mostly disappointing designed and over priced products for the quality? Is is just my mood or is it what others are thinking too?

RE: 1970s General Motors

By Ammohunt on 1/31/2013 1:46:53 PM , Rating: 1

I always felt Microsoft was the hit and miss type Innovator after their giant Operating System ans Office success. You do have to respect them for at least making an attempt to compete is markets dominated by one or more companies. Zune was failboat but Xbox360 and later the Kinect was a slow to rise bitchslap to the console markets. I would never make the mistake of counting them out or any market they want to jump into.

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