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Office 365 vs. Office 2013

Microsoft Office 365: Summary

Customers who need Office across multiple devices

A subscription to Office 365 is a practical choice for households or individuals with multiple computing devices.

Small businesses may benefit from cloud-hosted services that are expensive and complex to setup and maintain on office servers.

Office 365 is a cloud-based service hosted by Microsoft. Full applications are installed on the local PC/device to enable off-line editing, with cloud synchronisation when Internet access is restored. It brings together the familiar Microsoft Office desktop applications with cloud-based business email (myname@businessname.com), shared calendars, instant messaging (IM), video conferencing and file sharing.

• Work with Office from virtually anywhere, backed by robust security and a 99.9 per cent uptime guarantee.
• For businesses, Office 365 provides enterprise-grade tools for a predictable monthly cost and no upfront infrastructure investments.
• For consumers, Office 365 is available as a prepaid subscription.

Microsoft Office 2013: Summary

Customers who need Office for a single PC only

Office 2013 suites are an option for customers who need Office on only one device. The Office 2013 suites allow customers to save their work to OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) by default and make it easy to connect to the cloud.

• Office Home & Student 2013 – for families.
• Includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Non-commercial use.
• Office Home & Business 2013 – for small-business and home users who need to manage email, calendars and tasks.
• Includes everything in Home & Student 2013, plus Outlook.
• Office Professional 2013 – for users who need the complete Office suite, including publishing and database tools.
• Includes everything in Home & Business 2013, plus Publisher and Access.
  

Microsoft Office 365: Details

Office 365 subscriptions are available as a media-less product licence, with software installation exclusively via Internet download onto multiple devices.

Microsoft Office 2013: Details

The Office 2013 suites are media-less in developed markets and can be purchased pre-installed and ready-to-run on new PCs or subsequently downloaded via the Internet. Customers use a 25-character product key to activate Office 2013 on a single PC.