(Yes, your purchase/subscription is called Office 365, but under that heading, you get whatever the latest “upgrade” is, currently 2016, however. Few other companies have done anything as compelling (they just use their market position to force it, like Adobe).ġ.) Office 365, all versions will work if you no longer subscribe, you only switch to the inferior (non 365/subscription) version.Ģ.) EVEN without a discount when buying a new PC/Mac, the subscription (365) ends up being FAR cheaper than the old fashioned “buy in FULL versions” every 3 years, or so! YET, it STILL offers more than the so called “full”, one-time-pay versions.ģ.) The 365 (subscription) versions will always automatically (if you wish) not JUST upDATE but also upGRADE to the newest version, like the upcoming Office 2019! It's cheap, and it adds value across the entire array of Microsoft consumer services. Office 365 is one of the best Subscription deals on the market. It also adds Support and Premium Features to and OneDrive (especially, which adds a number of features not found in iCloud) - in addition to the Skype Minutes (YMMV). How much would that cost in the Apple ecosystem? Right. Office 365 gives you access to 1TB of OneDrive storage - and that's ignoring Office. The Web Apps are sluggish compared to Office Web Apps, and it just doesn't make sense to be stuck in browser tabs when you can use desktop applications that perform better without the back button, refresh and connection gotchas of a web app. If you use both Windows and macOS, then iWork is a practical non-option anyways. I actually think iWork works better on Mobile than it does on the desktop, frankly, but there Office Mobile is just as good - IMHO - better when you factor in how much better Outlook, Excel and OneNote are than Apple Mail/Contacts/Calendar, Numbers, and Notes. Even Keynote isn't that good compared to PowerPoint, unless your needs are quite basic.Īpple is wise for targeting iWork at kindergarteners. The software is just incredibly incapable. I tried to make that work, but it's not a viable solution. IWork is terrible compared to Office, but you're free to stick with it if your needs are that incredibly basic.

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