Microsoft’s Subscription-Less Office Costs $150—Here’s What You Get

Microsoft has already confirmed that Office 2021 will launch on Oct. 5, together with Windows 11, however now we all know extra about its new options—and, most significantly, how a lot it’s going to value you.

Office 2021 will probably be a standalone model for companies and folk who don’t wish to cope with a Microsoft 365 subscription. There will probably be two tiers, together with the $150 Office Home and Student 2021, which will embody the standard software program suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneBe aware. Microsoft Teams will even be part of the package deal for each PC and Mac customers.

If you’re on the enterprise aspect of issues, the $250 Office Home and Business 2021 consists of the whole lot talked about above, plus the Outlook e mail suite for PC and Mac, and the rights to make use of Office apps for your enterprise.

The new Office 2021 may have a extra fashionable design to match the softer, rounded aesthetics of Windows 11. There’s even a reprised ribbon interface, together with a extra impartial shade palette.

If you select to go together with the Office license as an alternative of a subscription, you’ll nonetheless get a few of the collaboration options accessible within the cloud-based Microsoft 365, together with real-time co-authoring, OneDrive help, and direct Teams integration.

You can peep the record of Office 2021 options on the official Microsoft support page. Some of the updates embody common efficiency enhancements and up to date Draw tabs throughout the board. One of essentially the most notable options that can undoubtedly resonate with the late-night essay-writing crowd is that Word, Excel, and PowerPoint may have Open Document Format (ODF) 1.3 help. Free, open-source options like LibreOffice produce the ODF file. It’s what people throughout Mac, Windows, and Linux use as an alternative when there’s no accessible entry to Microsoft Office. And this may assist be sure that formatting and macros keep intact throughout the file conversion course of.

The new model of Office 2021 will work on Windows 11, Windows 10, and the most recent three variations of macOS. Start backing up these storage drives, and be sure you mark your calendars for Oct. 5.