(mini news) Office 365 Personal now allows up to 5 concurrent installs

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source: Microsoft https://support.office.com/en-us/article/important-news-about-your-office-365-subscription-06828297-4f1d-4059-8748-365d8e658968

 

This is a pretty simple one.  You used to be able to have it on 2 PCs at once, and anymore and to sign into another you'd have to sign out of an existing one, but now that limit has been bumped up to 5.

 

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You'll be able install Office 365 on all your devices and sign in to 5 at the same time

 

This makes sense since it helps increase convenience for home users who have more than 2 devices such as myself, but it's not likely going to cost Microsoft anything extra since those kinds of users weren't going to upgrade to a more expensive tier just to get more installs, so they're not losing sales or cannibalizing the other options with this change.

[GoldenLag]

and my Office 365 Home subscription just got refreshed for another year........... yaaaaaaaaaay money down the drain.

[NelizMastr]

It's especially convenient because you can now install on an unlimited amount of devices, and use it on 5 of them concurrently. This means you can equip all of your devices with Office no problem and just adhere to the limit of concurrent use. 

[Sfekke]

A great change, still not buying a license, Google Docs masterrace.

I preferred buying a disc with Office lets say 2010 and then activating it usual a serial code.

No yearly cost, just that one time fee.

[GoldenLag]

5 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

It's especially convenient because you can now install on an unlimited amount of devices, and use it on 5 of them concurrently. This means you can equip all of your devices with Office no problem and just adhere to the limit of concurrent use. 

that was one thing very annoying about office personal. if you had three devices like say a phone, a laptop and a desktop you would have to opt for the more expensive home edition. and there are a very large userbase with more than 2 devices

[NelizMastr]

6 minutes ago, Sfekke said:

A great change, still not buying a license

Same. I've never purchased any Microsoft licenses in my life and I don't intend to. They were either included with systems or good old AutoKMS  

[NTDaws]

Yes I know I pirate (no I will not specify where) but I do also purchase business subscriptions considering how well it's used for work.

[Guest]

Office is still free for university and school students. The Mac Office suite is still completely free, and OpenOffice is also quite good now, even Google Docs is catching up. 

 

There really is no justification for current prices of Microsoft Office, I don't know why people buy it.

[Sfekke]

16 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Same. I've never purchased any Microsoft licenses in my life and I don't intend to. They were either included with systems or good old AutoKMS  

You sire are a man of tradition.

 

 

I never said I didn't run some unofficial version of Office hehe

[Sfekke]

4 minutes ago, RorzNZ said:

Office is still free for university and school students. The Mac Office suite is still completely free, and OpenOffice is also quite good now, even Google Docs is catching up. 

 

There really is no justification for current prices of Microsoft Office, I don't know why people buy it.

Sorry for the double post but .. whatever.

We are creatures of habit, same reason Windows is still .. well nevermind they screwed that up; we buy it because we are used to using it.

When we say Let's write something on our PC we go and open Word.

Almost like we are condition to associate one with the other.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Sfekke said:

Sorry for the double post but .. whatever.

We are creatures of habit, same reason Windows is still .. well nevermind they screwed that up; we buy it because we are used to using it.

When we say Let's write something on our PC we go and open Word.

Almost like we are condition to associate one with the other.

Well Windows 10 is garbage. I think most of us know that people only use it for compatability and it comes with OEM machines. Most people don't realise the telemetry that Microsoft gets and the awful Windows Updates. They just don't know about Linux or think its too hard, or that MacOS is just too expensive etc. 

 

The future is that there really are many other options out there and people need to be more informed. 

[Sfekke]

14 minutes ago, RorzNZ said:

Well Windows 10 is garbage. I think most of us know that people only use it for compatability and it comes with OEM machines. Most people don't realise the telemetry that Microsoft gets and the awful Windows Updates. They just don't know about Linux or think its too hard, or that MacOS is just too expensive etc. 

 

The future is that there really are many other options out there and people need to be more informed. 

Agreed.

I'm hesitating to downgrade to Windows 7 myself, but I'm unsure if they'll keep supporting it and if not if the community keeps it alive; like Windows XP.

Windows 10 LTSB is nice and all that, but that Settings app is still complete garbage; where can a poweruser go soon? They are stripping the control panel!

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Sfekke said:

Agreed.

I'm hesitating to downgrade to Windows 7 myself, but I'm unsure if they'll keep supporting it and if not if the community keeps it alive; like Windows XP.

Windows 10 LTSB is nice and all that, but that Settings app is still complete garbage; where can a poweruser go soon? They are stripping the control panel!

Thats not really the main concern, its more hiding some power features using another app for basic functions. I like the idea of it being more user-friendly, always need to try to appeal to the end-user more, however using two seperate apps for the same thing, or even different toggles that should be all within one app seems redundant and almost like hiding something. If it was all contained under one app (either interface would be fine), it would be a lot better. 

[Teddy07]

Stupid subscription. I bought office 2016 from eBay for 5 €. Don´t need more.

[Sfekke]

15 minutes ago, RorzNZ said:

Thats not really the main concern, its more hiding some power features using another app for basic functions. I like the idea of it being more user-friendly, always need to try to appeal to the end-user more, however using two seperate apps for the same thing, or even different toggles that should be all within one app seems redundant and almost like hiding something. If it was all contained under one app (either interface would be fine), it would be a lot better. 

One app would be fine, if they actually got all the features in there.

I can get used to the new app, not that I'm waiting for them to switch .. far from.

 

Windows 10 feels like every other game released, unfinished and buggy.

Early Access vibes is what I get all the time!

Part of the stuff is still being put in the Settings app, shouldn't that be done before they release it?

And c'mon how long does it take; it isn't some small company it is Microsoft.

[captain_to_fire]

1 hour ago, RorzNZ said:

Office is still free for university and school students. The Mac Office suite is still completely free, and OpenOffice is also quite good now, even Google Docs is catching up. 

 

There really is no justification for current prices of Microsoft Office, I don't know why people buy it.

The only reason I see to justify a purchase of Office 365 is compatibility with the rest of Office users. While I still have an Office 365 Home subscription because uni won’t provide me one, I managed to make my written reports with Pages on the web. I’m even making presentations with Keynote and it will put PowerPoint animations to shame. 

[schwellmo92]

I hate Microsoft to! *rabble rabble rabble*

[AlTech]

Nice but I decided to cancel my sub anyway so it doesn't renew. LibreOffice is good enough for my personal stuff.

[Sfekke]

30 minutes ago, James Evens said:

nop. The uni or school pays for it. The free version is just the website which would not call office.

OpenOffice is a pain to use: more bugs then microsoft office

google docs: still just a website

pricing: office 365 student: 80€ for 4 years is awesome offer.

Open Office became really usable; @AluminiumTech also mentioned LibreOffice.

Both are good enough for basic stuff, of course some classes/schools require the use of MS Office suites.

[Sfekke]

25 minutes ago, James Evens said:

For simple and short documents yes. For larger more complex documents it is not usable at all. The second problem is compability most documents get shared as PDF or doc and not in odf format but this could be easily fixed by switching to libreoffice.

Larger documents are fine, but complexity kills the software.

Especially if it has to look nice, only Google Docs comes close to Microsoft's offering.

Personally I haven't installed Office on my main system, if I need it docs.google.com and I'm off to the races; if you know what I mean.

 

Powerpoint however .. ehh let's just say Slides isn't exactly well .. great.

For the seldom cases I need it my old laptop still has Office 2010 and when I boot that sucker up I can do what I need to do.

 

Edit:

OpenOffice supports .doc, all you have to do is save it as such.

LibreOffice does as well, if I'm not mistaken.

[AlTech]

36 minutes ago, Sfekke said:

Open Office became really usable; @AluminiumTech also mentioned LibreOffice.

Both are good enough for basic stuff, of course some classes/schools require the use of MS Office suites.

Yeah, I still get Office 365 from my Uni but i'm not gonna pay for my own personal office.

[Sfekke]

4 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Yeah, I still get Office 365 from my Uni but i'm not gonna pay for my own personal office.

I'm happy to still have a key for Office 2010 Professional, one time payment that now lasted me for years and years.

[AlTech]

Just now, Sfekke said:

I'm happy to still have a key for Office 2010 Professional, one time payment that now lasted me for years and years.

Honestly the only reason I've even had my own Office 365 sub for the last 2-3 years is my own OneDrive but I hope to move to my own storage solution.

[Sfekke]

5 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Honestly the only reason I've even had my own Office 365 sub for the last 2-3 years is my own OneDrive but I hope to move to my own storage solution.

For all data I cannot miss Dropbox is where it goes unless it is sensitive data.

Other stuff goes on one of my backup drives, internal and/or external.

 

Never really had an issue so far, 1TB on Dropbox will become small at some point .. so investing in a solid NAS with RAID 1; filled up 450GB on there in about two years now.

[suicidalfranco]

13 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Google is no replacement for me. I need the ability to work offline. 

humm... Google docs do work offline...