

This means payments are made monthly or annually. On the other hand, Office 365, the version of Office that Microsoft is pushing most aggressively, is a subscription-based service. Run Office 2019 until 2030? There’s nothing stopping you (as long as the computer it was installed on keeps working, that is). Pay for Office 2016 this year and use it for the next eight years? Fine. In other words, the license has no expiration date, and users may run the suite as long as they want. This means that whether someone walks into a retail store and buys one copy at a time or purchases hundreds via volume licensing, that purchase (of a license to legally run the software), gives the buyer the right to use the software in perpetuity. Office 2016 and Office 2019 are dubbed as “one-time purchases.” Microsoft defines this term as when, “…you pay a single, up-front cost to get Office applications for one computer.” Up-front is the key adjective there Office 20’’s entire purchase price must be laid out before receiving the software. Microsoft Office 2016 Differences from Office 2019 Of the differences between Office 2016, Office 2019, and Office 365, purchase plans are among the most striking. Plus, we’ll take a look at what’s coming based on Microsoft’s new support policies for the Office 2019 and Office 365 down the road.

To help you better understand your Microsoft Office options, here is a breakdown of those three top differentiators that these tools apart. However, they way in which they are paid for, serviced, and connected to the cloud differ. How they differ can be confusing, especially since each includes, more or less, the same applications. This model of Office debuted in 2011, with options for both personal and business use.

Microsoft Office may be the de facto productivity tool for millions of workers worldwide, but it’s certainly not a one-size-fits-all solution.
