Friday, October 1st 2021
Microsoft Reveals Office 2021 Pricing
Although Microsoft announced Office 2021 last month, the pricing was only announced today. As expected, Microsoft has several different versions of Office 2021 on offer and Microsoft 365 will also be updated to Office 2021 for subscribers to the service. Office 2021 will be available on the 5th of October, alongside Windows 11.
If you're looking to upgrade to Office 11, the bad news is that no upgrade pricing was announced and it's not clear if there even will be an upgrade offer. Office Home and Student, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Microsoft Teams, will set you back US$149.99, whereas Office Home and Business adds Outlook and "the right" to use the various Office packages for commercial usage, for US$249.99. Microsoft 365 remains at the same price levels. If you're planning to upgrade to Windows 11 and are using office 2013, do note that Microsoft is pulling the plug and you'll have to upgrade to a more recent version of Office.
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If you're looking to upgrade to Office 11, the bad news is that no upgrade pricing was announced and it's not clear if there even will be an upgrade offer. Office Home and Student, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Microsoft Teams, will set you back US$149.99, whereas Office Home and Business adds Outlook and "the right" to use the various Office packages for commercial usage, for US$249.99. Microsoft 365 remains at the same price levels. If you're planning to upgrade to Windows 11 and are using office 2013, do note that Microsoft is pulling the plug and you'll have to upgrade to a more recent version of Office.
107 Comments on Microsoft Reveals Office 2021 Pricing
Well, regardless, interesting find.If you're only using Office itself on one computer, you'd probably be fine not even upgrading more than once a decade, if at all. If you do multiple devices plus multiple users plus use things like the 1 TB of OneDrive storage, then suddenly the 365 subscription (at least the Family one) looks more interesting.
The business 365 looks like trash price wise, but businesses work at a completely different magnitude of budget than a home user, most of the time
The advantage of office 365 is you dont need all the money upfront, so yes in the long run if you have no use for onedrive, you will pay more, but there is value to avoiding upfront expense.