Even by Microsoft’s standards, The Office Twins Challenge is a self-serving and annoying crock which treats customers like fools. Office 2019 ad to discourage buying it It’s not often (ever?) that a company doesn’t want to sell a product, but that’s what Microsoft is doing with their latest Microsoft Office
The Microsoft Office Home Use Program (HUP) has officially been extended to include Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal annual plans. Naturally there’s a catch, the rules have changed but the Microsoft department isn’t ready yet! UPDATES: Home Use Program details are dribbling out. You’d better hurry if you
The latest Microsoft Office promotion is a rare example of an ad which shows how a product was deliberately crippled with less features. The ‘Twins Challenge’ is a series of very selective videos that are supposed to highlight differences between Office 2019 (single purchase, less profitable for Microsoft) and Office
Apple and Microsoft have come to terms and now you can buy an Office 365 ‘subscription’ plan from the Apple App Store. Why do such a silly thing? We’ve seen a lot of hype about Office 365’s arrival in the App Store. Commentators almost hyperventilating with excitement including the phrase
Now that Microsoft is changing the default Office 365 and Office 2019 install to 64-bit software from 32-bit software – which one do you choose and does it matter? Most people will not notice the difference between 32-bit Office and the 64-bit version. The latter is faster but not so
Microsoft Project and Visio are expensive extras to Microsoft Office so it’s tempting to buy cheap versions from sites like Ebay but there are traps for the unwary. Visio software plans start at $15 a month up to a one-time price of $530 for Visio Professional. Visio Online only can
Ads for cheap, illegal or maybe non-existent versions of Office 365 appear all over the place, including Facebook. Just like similar offers on Ebay or Amazon they look great but can’t possibly be legitimate. This one on Facebook mobile offers ‘Lifetime’ Office 365 for just $75. Since a single year
Microsoft India has announced a 15% price increase for Office 365 Home from 8 January 2019. Buy now to beat the price rise and extend your Office 365 subscription. The current price for Office 365 Home is INR4,619 – which has been the price since January 2017 when Microsoft raised
Microsoft’s own Bing search engine was giving prominent place to a link which explains how to pirate Office 2019. It’s a curious display of algorithmic and corporate independence, All you had to do is search for ‘Office 2019 download’ on Bing to see information that Microsoft definitely does not approve
Office Watch reader, Meredith M. asks a question we’ve heard many times before. Why can’t you buy individual Office programs instead of paying for an Office bundle with programs you don’t need? “My issue: I need ONLY Word, Excel and Access–but I NEED them. I know that I cannot buy
Office 2019 is different in licencing and enforcement from earlier perpetual licence versions of Office. Your Office 2019 could be cancelled if Microsoft decides it’s a pirated or illegal copy. Software activation or authorization is now an ongoing process. From time to time, Office 2019 and Office 365 checks with
Here’s three more Office 2019 scams to avoid. They are plainly illegal sales of Microsoft Office that might work but Microsoft can cancel the licence at any time. Two of them are on Amazon or Ebay, sites that customers should be able to trust and are supposed to prevent these
This is a good time to renew Office 365 Home with prices about as low as we’ve ever seen them. It’s possible to save $40 or 40%. There are also some good deals on Office 2019 packages. The official and automatic renewal price for Office 365 Home in the USA
Microsoft has raised the prices of Office 2019, but there are still ways to beat the price rise. As widely expected, Microsoft upped the retail price of Office 2019. The official price increases are up to 10%. Office 2019 Home & Student remains at the same price, $149.99, keeping the
The new iPad Pro’s announced today by Apple come with an extra cost to use Microsoft Office. Office Mobile apps for iPad are usually free for everyone. There are some extras for Office 365 customers but most of the app features are available for all comers. But the new iPad
The Office Home Use Program (HUP) is a cheap way to buy Office 2019 but there are some downsides. Your money might be better used for an Office 365 Home or Personal plan. The Home Use Program product is very limited in both features and how many computers you can
We clear up some of the misunderstandings about the MS Office Home Use Program (HUP), one of the cheapest ways to buy Microsoft Office. In our article Home Use Program or getting Microsoft Office for $15 we explained how many companies can let their staff buy Office 2019 for Windows
The cheapest legal way to get Microsoft Office is the Home Use Program (HUP). It costs just $15 each for Office 2019 Windows or Mac. Like many Microsoft deals, it’s not as good as in the past, but it’s still cheap and worth considering. Many people qualify for the Home
It was inevitable that scammers would start using Office 365 as the basis for email scams, here’s what to look out for and how to avoid any dangerous web links. The scams are similar to the fake emails that pretend to come from banks and other large companies. They try
It was surprising and frankly disappointing to see Amazon USA post a very dubious offer for Office 2019 Professional Plus at just US$46.99. Office 2019 Professional Plus sells for around $559 but only as a volume licence. There’s no retail version of Office 2019 Professional Plus. This offer is doubly
Various ‘news’ stories going around promising a trick to getting Office 2019 for free … don’t believe it. We know a way to get Office 2019 cheap, but not free. Maybe these ‘Office 2019 for free’ stories are deliberate clickbait or horribly ill-informed, either way they’re quite wrong. As often
Microsoft has released Office 2019 for Windows or Mac to the Home Use Program. Just $15 gets qualifying employees Office 2019 Professional Plus for Windows or Office 2019 Home and Business for Mac. The Home Use Program (HUP) is part of the Software Assurance package for Volume Licence customers. Employees
Microsoft Office for Windows is gradually changing the software name to Office 365 . It’s being done slowly, almost by stealth but it’s happening. Keen eyed readers have noticed a gradual change on the Microsoft web site and software. We first mentioned it back in August 2018 but the software
As Douglas Adams said, Don’t Panic. There are problems with the Windows 10 October 2018 major update but they won’t strike you if you’re careful. The October 2018 update has been suspended by Microsoft after reports that documents/files were being deleted during the update process. Not good at all. The
