Microsoft is moving from selling software "in a box" to software "in the cloud". Instead of purchasing a copy of a specific version of Windows or Office, they will eventually just have "Windows" and "Office" and you purchase it via yearly subscription. So if you purchase a subscription to Office 365, you will automatically get the latest version of Office each year or whenever it comes up. Right now Office 365 is effectively Office 2016, but next year it might be Office 2017.
I also use it and find it perfectly fine. But others have a problem because they would rather "own" a piece of software (even though they really just licensed it). --------- Brian On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Vincent Winterling < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes it is. I have the Office 365 Home which provides a decent package of 5 > licenses for about $80 / year (up a bit from last year). For me it’s a > value and a business expense and I use it. With the subscription it’s > always the current version. It also has some extras including a terabyte of > storage in the cloud. > -- > Vincent Winterling > Vineland, NJ > > > > > > > > On 2/4/16, 7:36 PM, "Hardware on behalf of DSinc" < > [email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> > wrote: > > >All, > >Saw in the Register yesterday that MS intends to enable upgrade to Win10 > >via monthly update logic. I'll be pleased to see this. > >But I'm now thinking it may be time to update my current version of > >Office '03 to a newer version. Is there something specific about the > >"Office 365" brand of code? > >Is it some kind subscription? > >Thank you, > >Duncan > > > >
