Microsoft Office 365 launched,priced Rs. 420 per month for ayear for Home Premium

Microsoft has officially launched its
Office 365 productivity suite in the
Indian market and for the very first
time Microsoft has announced this
suite as a services rather than a
product. As previously Office 365
suites were only available as service
for enterprise users.
The Home Premium SKU of the
Office 365 is priced at Rs. 4,199
per year for its consumers and
users can also opt-in for the Rs.
420 per month option. However,
do keep in mind that even the Rs.
420 per month option is a lock-in
for a tear as the amount will be
automatically debited on a monthly
basis instead of every year.
The Office 265 Home Premium
subscription is bundled with all the
key Office apps and these include –
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote,
Outlook Publisher and Access. This
subscription can be used across 5
PCs/Macs and an additional 5
mobile device (However, currently
only Windows Phone and Windows
RT based tablets are supported).
While Mac users will still be using
Office 2011 there have been a few
indications suggesting that it will
receive a new update in the next
6-10 months.
With the Home Premium
subscription users will also get an
additional 20GB of SkyDrive
storage along with five free
SkyDrive accounts. This accounts to
a total of 27GB of free cloud
storage.
This is a good move from
Microsoft as all of a sudden many
users will find such a subscription
based model to be much affordable
than opting in for the actual
product which requires a huge
amount of money to be paid at a
single time. Hence, such a model
for Office 365 may really work out
for Microsoft.
The company has not announced
the pricing for the Home and
Student SKU, but the website has
priced it for Rs. 5,499 and it will
only work on a single PC is it not
available on the subscription
model. Similar box sets of Office
Home and Business 2013 cost Rs.
13,499 and box set for Office
Professional is priced at Rs.
24,999.

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