Microsoft 365 – the subscription / annual fee plan for Microsoft Office on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Includes Word 365, Excel 365, PowerPoint 365, Outlook 365 and many other ‘365’ programs, apps and services.
If you need an older version of Microsoft Office, like Office 2016, 2019 or 2021, your options have narrowed but they have not disappeared. Microsoft doesn’t sell perpetual licenses for past releases, but you may already own a transferable license, qualify for downgrade rights through a volume agreement, or find a legitimate retail copy still […]
Microsoft has quietly added a new Group Policy and Registry switch to Windows 11 that can remove the Microsoft Copilot app and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app from your PC. It sounds like the Copilot kill switch many Windows 11 users have been waiting for, but the fine print is tight. The policy only works […]
Microsoft has quietly added a “Move to ribbon” option to the much hated Copilot Dynamic Access Button in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, after a wave of customer complaints about the floating button cluttering every document, workbook and slide deck. The fix gives paying Microsoft 365 customers a way to push Copilot back where it belongs […]
If you see “Lifetime Microsoft Office” advertised for $20 or $40, ignore the word “Lifetime” entirely. Microsoft does not sell anything called “Lifetime Office”. That word is a marketing trick used by third party resellers, and it’s often a flag that the license is dubious or outright illegal. “Lifetime” Office is NOT a word that […]
OneNote finally lets you open Office file links in the desktop apps instead of a browser tab. A new setting in OneNote for Windows and Mac decides where Word, Excel and PowerPoint links go when you click them from inside a notebook. Choose Desktop and your spreadsheet opens in full Excel, your slide deck in […]
