We predict crowds at Microsoft Stores tomorrow. Microsoft Stores are offering a very limited number of people a years worth of Office 365. The first 50 people to arrive at a Microsoft Store on Friday 28th March 2014 with an iPad will get Office 365 (probably Home Premium) for a year. There’ll probably be queues […]
Beware of ‘experts’ to toe the Microsoft party line on Office 365 vs. Office 2013. We continue to be amazed at some of the comparisons by ‘experts’ between Office 365 annual rental prices and buying Office 2013 as a one-off payment. Microsoft has deliberately made it hard to do ‘side-by-side’ comparisons. That’s no excuse for […]
When Microsoft feels the need, they read cloud emails on Outlook.com (aka Hotmail) or other Microsoft 365 hosted email. Microsoft has been caught reading private data stored on their cloud servers and it’s all quite legal. In 2012 screenshots of the, then unreleased, Windows 8 had been leaked and Microsoft wanted to know where the […]
Can friends share the cost of an Office 365 subscription/rental? The Office 365 Home Premium has 5 copies Office (Windows or Mac) that can be shared among different people. Could friends pool their money and share the cost of a single Home Premium subscription? Officially no … unless the friends lived in the same household. […]
Where’s the value in Office 365 Personal? Microsoft has announced a new, lower price point for Office 365 subscriptions (rentals). Office 365 Personal will costs US$6.99 per month or US$69.99 a year (plus tax) at first. For that you get: Office for Windows or Office for Mac – one transferable licence. Tablet version of Office […]
