22 and year's end would get the discount only if purchasing Office Home & Student 2016 before Dec. Someone who bought a copy of Office Home & Student 2013 or Office for Mac Home & Student 2011 between Aug. The $40 discount can be applied to the corresponding SKU (stock-keeping unit) of Office 2016.
Yesterday's offer discarded the completely free stand-alone, perpetual license and reduced the install rights with the free Office 365 subscription from five PCs or Macs to just one.Įligible purchases during the offer's four-month stretch include Office Home & Student 2013, Home & Business 2013, and Office Professional on Windows and Office for Mac Home & Student 2011 and Home & Business for Mac 2011 on OS X. Three years ago, for example, Microsoft customers who bought the then-current Office 2010 for Windows were promised either a free copy of the impending Office 2013 - which shipped in January 2013 - or a one-year subscription to Office 365 Home Premium, a since-renamed plan that provided rights to install the application suite on up to five PCs or Macs. 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. Office 365 Personal is a consumer-grade plan that lets the subscriber install one copy of Office 2016 on a Windows device or Mac.
