
Microsoft would prefer that everyone purchase the Microsoft 365 annual payment plans because they assure recurring revenue and are interconnected with Microsoft’s cloud services. If Microsoft could, there’d be no “perpetual license” versions at all. When I linked this to the association’s Microsoft account, I saw the old license for Office 2013!!! Of course that one is no longer being supported by Microsoft but probably would work OK for out purposes. Got it set up and configured for the new treasurer in about a half hour. I ended up getting Office 2021 (I was tempted by the ultra low prices for Office 2019 that seem to be proliferating these days). I was on chat with a Microsoft agent and he didn’t understand this and tried telling me the Office 2021 would not do what we needed which was not true. All we need is Excel, Word and Outlook but Office 365 comes in bundles with stuff we don’t need. We need Outlook so I had to get the Business version. The problem with Office 365 is that over time, the cost becomes much more than Office 2021. The salesman at Microcenter wanted to sell me one with an more powerful CPU but I laughed and told him this PC only had to do a couple of basic things.

Our old laptop went out of service two years ago as it was a Win7 machine with a very slow hard drive. I’ve been keeping the books with Quicken on my workstation but the incoming treasurer cannot install programs on his work laptop because of corporate rules. I’m retiring as treasurer of our small citizens association. It would take at least nine years for the cost of your Microsoft 365 to equal the price of an equal number of Office 2021 licenses.I had a bizarre experience with Microsoft on this very issue two weeks ago.

But if you pick the Microsoft 365 Family plan and have six users sharing it, you would have only paid $16.67 per head. In just two years, you would have already spent more if you chose Microsoft 365 Personal over Office Home & Student 2021. On the other hand, you will have to pay the $69.99 fee annually if you're going for Microsoft 365 Personal. However, since it's a one-time purchase, you only need to spend on the app once. The initial cash outlay for both versions of Office 2021 is significantly higher than Microsoft 365's offerings. The Personal plan costs $69.99 per year (or $6.99 a month), while the Family plan costs $99.99 per year (or $9.99 a month). Microsoft 365, the subscription-based office suite, also comes in two options: Personal and Family. Related: What to Expect With Microsoft Office 2021? The Home & Business 2021 license also lets you use the apps for corporate use. The former, which costs $149.99, includes the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, while the latter, at $249.99, adds Outlook to the mix. It comes in two flavors: Home & Student 2021 and Home & Business 2021.
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Office 2021 is the single-purchase version of Microsoft's office suite.
