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In the 25 years since Microsoft made Office, it's grown to 1. Office is nearing the end of its lifecyle , with Microsoft scheduled to shut off mainstream support on October 13, If that applies to you, then you may care less about what's new in Office than you do about how much it is going to cost you. Microsoft wants customers to embrace its cloud, so it is rewarding the 15 million users who already subscribe to Office with regular updates and features, including Office apps and promised improvements to OneDrive syncing.

The company calls Office its "best Office value. It requires an annual commitment to score on those prices of either Business or Enterprise flavors of Office The pricier two options for both come with "full installed Office applications," which now include Office apps for PC and Mac, "on up to five PCs or Macs.

Other options are available depending upon the flavor of Office Business or Enterprise. If you are not inclined to use Office because a subscription is a bit like Microsoft holding your data for ransom, or because you don't trust the cloud in the U. The Redmond giant may want to kill off software in favor of services, but it's not happening with this new Office release. These can be downloaded or bought in brick-and-mortar stores; two searches showed both listed at Walmart and Best Buy. Users who opt for the one-time purchase of boxed Office flavors will not get the frequent updates, new features, and improvements that will roll out to the cloud versions, according to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.

Now, if you think you don't need no stinkin' Office subscription, but want Office Professional , then get ready to feel the pain. You still get the cloud too, as Microsoft said, "Sign in to Office and use OneDrive to easily access your recent documents on any device with seamless integration. It can be purchased and downloaded via Microsoft. Office "is all about the cloud," according to a review on The Verge.

Indeed, Microsoft is pushing new collaboration features in this "mobile-first, cloud-first world" since "how people work has changed dramatically. The new Office has a "Tell Me" tool that is a bit like Clippy without actually seeing the distraction; it allows you to "find the right Office feature or command," while Smart Lookup uses Bing. The digital storytelling app Sway mentioned by Satya is already available for free in the Windows Store.

There are other new features and improvements, but in PCWorld Mark Hachman's review, he said Microsoft hasn't answered the most basic question of "Why should I upgrade? But if you have Office , then remember the end-of-lifecyle clock is ticking and you need to upgrade before Microsoft stops patching it and you become extremely vulnerable to hacking. Smith not her real name is a freelance writer and programmer with a special and somewhat personal interest in IT privacy and security issues.

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