Microsoft 365 is a subscription service that makes sure you always have the most up-to-date modern productivity tools from Microsoft. There are Microsoft 365 plans for home and personal use, as well as for small and midsized businesses, large enterprises, schools, and non-profits.
Most of the Microsoft 365 plans for business, schools, and non-profits include the fully installed desktop apps, but Microsoft also offers basic plans with the online versions of Microsoft 365, file storage, and email. You decide what works best for you: Small business, Enterprise, School, or Non-profit.
Office 2021 is sold as a one-time purchase, which means you pay a single, up-front cost to get Microsoft 365 apps for one computer. One-time purchases are available for both PCs and Macs. However, there are no upgrade options, which means if you plan to upgrade to the next major release, you'll have to buy it at full price.
Microsoft 365 for the web is a free version of Microsoft 365 that you can use in a web browser. All you need is to sign up for a Microsoft account with a new or existing email address. Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more for free on the web.
Get the fully installed and latest versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook, and OneNote for Windows or Mac. You'll always get the latest features, new tools, security updates, and bug fixes. (PC users also get Access and Publisher.)
Securely store your files in the cloud and access them from anywhere. Get 1 TB of cloud storage. With Microsoft 365 Family you get 1 TB per user, and anyone you're sharing with will also get their own 1 TB of cloud storage.
Deciding on a plan can depend on your specific business needs. The Microsoft 365 plan chooser is designed to help you with this. The chooser will make recommendations based on your answers to questions such as the size of your business, your field of work, the devices you use, and what kind of features, IT support, and security you're looking for. See Help me find the right plan for my business.
You don't need to be online to use Microsoft 365 apps after they are installed and activated on your devices. However, you will need internet access initially to install and activate Microsoft 365, to install any updates, and to manage your billing. Internet access is also required to access documents stored on OneDrive, unless you install the OneDrive desktop app. However, after your Microsoft 365 apps (like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel) are installed, you can use them offline.
No. There are benefits with saving your files to the cloud, but the choice is yours. With both Microsoft 365 and non-subscription versions of Office, you choose where you want to store your documents. The option is yours to save them to a local device or save them to the cloud using a service such as OneDrive.
You can even choose to store your files in the cloud, but continue to access them from your device whether you're online or offline. You do this by syncing your files to your device and making them available for offline access. See Sync files with OneDrive in Windows or Sync files with OneDrive on macOS.
To learn more about the benefits of saving to the cloud, see Video: Why store files in the cloud? To learn more about the choices for where to save your files, see Save your files and Save, back up, and recover a file in Microsoft Office.
This is a history of the various versions of Microsoft Office, consisting of a bundle of several different applications which changed over time. This table only includes final releases and not pre-release or beta software. It also does not list the history of the constituent standalone applications which were released much earlier starting with Word in 1983, Excel in 1985, and PowerPoint in 1987.
Microsoft Office 2000 Personal was an additional SKU, solely designed for the Japanese market, that included Word 2000, Excel 2000 and Outlook 2000.[26] This compilation would later become widespread as Microsoft Office 2003 Basic.
As with previous versions, Office 2016 is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets. All traditional editions of Microsoft Office 2016 contain Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote and are licensed for use on one computer.[56][57] The installation of retail channels of Office 2016 is Click-To-Run (C2R), however volume licensing channels Office 2016 are using traditional Microsoft Installer (MSI).
I am trying to run a report on Office versions and found a report here -office-version-audit/ When I run the report all my computers show up multiple times, I am not great at SQL but I think it has to do with only showing unique assets but don't know how to modify the SQL.
Like me (and some of my friends) do not want to migrate our domain hosting to just one party that allows 365 family version to work with own domains. Microsoft is essentially forcing all non business users to migrate to GoDaddy (where I have learned that migration often goes wrong and is more expensive) Does anybody know if Microsoft is changing the product offer anytime soon? so that I can use Microsoft 365 Family with my own domain hosting provider?
What capabilities are you using with your current domain registrar? Switching the registrar and having it managed by GoDaddy may not be as challenging as you think, if done properly it should be pretty seamless and without any impact.
Hello,
I haven't tried it myself yet, though it appears that a domain to be used for a family Microsoft 365 account need not be registered through Godaddy.
It appears that any domain can be used for this, regardless of the registrar it is registered through, based on this documentation page: -us/microsoft-365/admin/setup/add-domain?view=o365-worldwide
That documentation actually specifies that the user used to set the custom domain must be a global administrator of a business or enterprise plan, which is of course, not what we are talking about, yet the fact that a Microsoft employee linked to it in reference to a question specifically about home family plans makes me think that it applies to such accounts as well. As well, it doesn't make sense that there would be such an odd restriction that these plans could not have custom domains.
Here is the post where the Microsoft employee references the documentation mentioned above:
-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_account-mso_win10-mso_365hp/setting-up-c...
cc: @boneyfrancis @kusuriya
"To Add, modify or remove domains you must be a Global Administrator of a business or enterprise plan. These changes affect the whole tenant, Customized administrators or regular users won't be able to make these changes."
@Ed Randall I've read your very informative blog on this subject and noticed your boxed insert toward the top regarding MS having removed the ability to create a custom domain for 365 Family in Nov 2022. I believe they are planning to remove the ability at the end of Nov 2023, so hopefully your instructions will still allow someone to configure a non-GoDaddy domain for another 9 months or so.
Once you deploy Remote Desktop Services (RDS) for employee remote access, your next step will be to install user applications as well as all your line of business applications. One of the most widely used applications suite is Microsoft Office,...
thanks for the input, i guess i am looking for someone who has an active VDA environment running server 2019. I am spinning up a 2019 server with O365 and slow rolling it into our production to see reaction.
I have rolled out some 2019 servers to serve the apps to include MS 0365 Click to run. Microsoft has remediated some of the issues like ghost password screens and no lines around windows explorer sessions which kept me from using serve 2019 in the past. I was curious what others were doing in this scenario. I believe some are using MS Office versions other then click to run (it is hard to keep up on what MS is calling their product, so sorry for paraphrasing)
The issue isnt really at the Citrix end of the solution but what Microsoft will Support. See this post from Microsoft. Microsoft 365 Connectivity to see what they will allow to connect to the 365 solution.
Not sure if that helps but when it comes to running Office as a published App I have better support with Office 2019 than Office 365 unless Ive implemented a solid profile management solution (In my case FSLogix ) but there are other solutions. I also had issues getting Onedrivefor Business to work seamlessly on Server 2019 but this is also now fixed.
So your first step must be to exclude LibreOffice from this automatic updates, or your planned older version wil be updated again.
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Then uninstall LibreOffice, and download/ install an older version. You may find even very old versions in the archive at Index of /libreoffice/old
Not unless someone reports a problem. If you want LibreOffice to support Windows cursor accessibility options you should report an enhancement bug, How to Report Bugs in LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Wiki
Hi there! I currently have 2 versions of Libre Office installed. I already had the flatpack installed when I upgraded to Zorin 17. Normally I would just take that one off in the app centre but that one is v24.2. More or less a beta channel release with newer features.
As such, I'd like to go ahead and remove the 7.6 ubuntu native release since I don't need 2 of them and the one I have is working well.