Microsoft Office 365 Personal | 1-year subscription, 1 user, PC/Mac Key Card

Office is what it is, which is to say it is a good effort at doing a lot of pretty important stuff. The switch from Office 2010 was easy, with none of the gotcha's that often occur during an update. The new delivery mode -- subscription, rather than purchase a product -- was uneventful, which is as it should be. Is helpful that a "free" version is available for the iPad/iPhone, and I've had no difficulty transferring data between the two platforms without losing formatting and such. IOS support for my iPad is adequate, and is somewhat better with the recent upgrade (11/6/2014). By "adequate" I mean the following: it is not nearly as robust an interface as you get with the Windows version. I particularly miss being able to use keystroke combinations rather than click-and-point. Hopefully that capability will carry over in the next upgrade. That being said, I don't do heavy-duty work on my iPad, and the IOS functionality is good enough for note taking using Word, for viewing PowerPoint displays, and so forth . In other words, it is fine for consuming information, but is limited in its ability to easily create it. Comparing individual apps in Office to the ones that come from Apple, my conclusion is that the Office apps have greater functionality but the ones from Apple are, no surprise here, more elegant. Upgrades come smoothly via the web. I think the subscription model will be useful for me.

Microsoft Office 365 continues to be an indispensable tool for my work and personal projects. The seamless integration across devices, regular updates, and the vast array of features make it a must-have. The 1-year subscription offers great value, and the key card activation was hassle-free. Whether you're a student, professional, or just someone looking to stay organized, Office 365 is the way to go.

Office 365 is not software; it is a method of financing access to the latest Office products. Many of the 1, 2 and 3 star reviews seem to lack an understanding of that. To review the software here is inappropriate.That should be done by reviewing Office 2103, which is what you will get if you buy the Office 365 plan today. The promotional material could not be more clear that it is a subscription. So, if you don't like the subscription idea, don't buy it. You can stay with an older version of Office as long as you like, though it may in the long run become unsupported and you won't have any new features, or pay big one time bucks to periodically purchase what you need. (So far I like Office 2013, but will review that separately where it belongs.) I had been buying Office using Office Home and Student as a base and purchasing Outlook and Publisher separately.For what I do this seems a good deal at the current price. Buying the personal key card I got use of Office 2013 for my primary desktop, and a mobile device, which I probably won't use, for a year at about 1/8 the cost of purchasing the software outright. Would I have stayed with purchased software for more than 8 years? Unlikely. I will now always have the latest version of the applications that I regularly use, which is all but Access, plus I have Access if I ever need it. For me the download and install went easily and I like the new products, although I would like to have had the option not to install Access. Admittedly, I didn't have to try to go to Microsoft for help. So the source of purchase wasn't an issue, although by report it may have been for others, I also have a fast computer with high quality Internet service, so those aren't issues, although I find that the 2013 applications seem to run faster than 2007 from which I upgraded. If you have poor Internet service perhaps the One Drive cloud thing, which I will not use, could be a problem; I don't know. I have given only four stars because I don't have long experience with the Office 365 plan, nor does anyone else. The big question is, what will it cost to renew a year from now? If it's somewhere in the range of what I paid initially that will be ok. If it doubles or triples in price, not so, and I'll go back to what I had, or gradually purchase upgrades as in the past.. We shall see.

I have always used Microsoft Office products and when they switched over to the subscription based approach, I wasn't sure if I would like that. Well it turns out that it's not so bad as you always stay up to date. If you like the idea of just buying it once then this isn't for you. They still sell it so that you can install it on one PC (or tablet) so you would have to buy it for every device. The subscription based version has a one PC/Tablet or 5 PC/Tablet option. As far as the products included, they have thus far worked just as expected.

I had historically used a 3rd party On-line Back-up solution costing in excess of $100/year to safeguard my 700 GB library of research, videos, and photos. With an annual purchase of Office 365 you get 1 TB (1000 GB) of storage space, in addition to Microsoft's Office Suite of Work, Excel, PowerPoint, One Note, and Outlook Mail. It can be installed on a single home computer PLUS one Tablet, and includes free upgrade for the entire year. Note: I use Microsoft Sync Toy to copy the files to One Drive . https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=15155

Premièrement ce devais recevoir 5 clés pour pouvoir télécharger la suite office 365 sur 5 ordinateurs de mon choix. Deuxièmement j'ai reçu des liens pour télécharger une des copies avec des erreurs dans mon nom et j'ai éprouvé beaucoup de difficulté à me connecter avec les infos reçues. Quand j'ai contacté le vendeur, le préposé de ce dernier m'a répondu qu'il ne parlait pas anglais. Lorsque je suis parvenu à me débrouiller pour installer le programme, je n'ai pas pu me servir d'aucun des programmes de la suite office. Lorsque j'activais un des programmes on me disait soit d'acheter ou de me connecter. Lorsque je me connectais avec mon nouveau mot de passe qu'on m'avait demandé de mettre à la place de celui fourni, je ne pouvais pas activer la programme. Finalement après deux jours j'ai eu accès à mon activation. Et pour finir, je n'ai toujours pas reçu mes autres clés d'activation pour pouvoir installer la suite sur d'autres ordinateurs. Personnellement, c'est pour ça que je suis avec Apple. J'ai acheté la suite office par obligation à cause de mes contacts qui préfèrent travailler avec cette suite, mais je suis profondément déçu de ce qui s'est passé. J'aurai dû rester avec Google documents plutôt que de me lancer dans une telle aventure qui m'a demandé beaucoup de temps pour obtenir ce que je désirais. Merci d'avoir pris connaissance de mon aventure.

I bought this to get Outlook (the mail program) as well as the word processing. Word and Excel are fine. Outlook is fraught with errors (I have a PC) and Microsoft isn't fixing them. I don't recommend buying this (or renting, as it turns out). I have been on Microsoft Communities for six months and Mac users are having the same problems. I am about to uninstall and get some of my money back.

Works fine, could have better help and some functions are inefficient

Got the card all right. Serial number is to be entered with lowercases. Those yearly subscriptions are region locked. I had it delivered to my mom's house in canada but was unable to validate it from Europe where I work. From microsoft's forum got the info about region locked, MS have multiple validation server around the globe. I had to make my case by chatting with microsoft helpdesk. Eventually, the ms helpdesk acknowledged the problem and gave me a new serial number.