Hi Peter,
As I previously mentioned, I have gone the Office 365 route and have always used Officeworks to get a cheaper (than MS) subscription renewal price. Officeworks also sell the standalone software – but their price is significantly higher – HOWEVER they also have a “best price guarantee” which I have invoked a couple of times in the past (although the price savings were usually relatively modest). It used to be that these “best price guarantees” were only valid between other bricks-and-mortar competitors – but I see that Officeworks now also include online stores: https://www.officeworks.com.au//information/policies/price-beat-guarantee?cm_sp=all:allPage:Header_ESpot_V2:3:always_on:price-beat-guarantee Our Price Beat Guarantee includes products you find online - as long as the item is identical and in stock. When assessing the PBG from online stores we also take into account the added cost of delivery to your location (if any). If the identical, in stock product can be purchased and delivered to your location via an online store for a total price lower than the one we are offering, we will beat that total price by 5%. Of course you would need to check whether the best offer you find meet ALL of Officeworks price comparison criteria but, in the past, I have found that, for instance, showing my iPad with the competing offer live on screen can work. I like dealing with Officeworks because, besides having a store here in Albany, I have always got the best price and never had a problem having a faulty item replaced. DISCLOSURE – I also own Wesfarmers shares ;o) Regarding multiple users and even one user and multiple machines (eg desktop and laptop) I’m pretty sure that the “Office 2019 Home and Business for Mac” is only for 1PC. However, I find that the current stand-alone licensing setup is very confusing – it used to be much simpler – the Mac & PC versions were sold (& priced) separately and you could get versions for a single installation or for 5 installations (not counting the various business multi-user deals). This was what I used to use and I seem to remember (long time ago though!) that once you used the licence key on one computer it would no longer work for subsequent installs – however you could find ways to get it installed on multiple computers (eg when you migrated to a new computer) and they would all work – but only one at a time – eg if it was open on the laptop and you wanted to open the desktop installation you would have to quit the laptop version first. However, all that seems to have changed and, since I was curious, a quick look today showed: Most places offered Microsoft Office Home and Business 2019 which was good for 1 PC/Mac – eg, for $259: https://www.jw.com.au/microsoft-office-home-and-business-2019 But then there also seems to be a Mac only version – eg for $ 150: https://softwaremart.com.au/collections/office/products/dfddsaw443ds6dsfgdfgdf4332432gfh7gf7h7gfh78gf-gf78hgf65hfg-jdgfjhgfhgf-9gfh8f7ggenuine-microsoft-office-2019-home-and-business-for-apple-ma7dfgdfgdf-dfg9dfg9dfgsadas8sa8-f5435438ds8676ds7f87sd766?variant=17834645323833 But there does also seem to be multi-key versions of Office 2019 Professional Plus (for Windows 10 only): https://softwaremart.com.au/collections/office/products/dfddssdf6490dsad44rgfdg666dsfds6ds7-988dsf8-988-4653-899u87daswervbsd5671-78ghbala-fdsdfsfds0824325435-78-ht66646dsa-dshfhsdfh-dsfds-dsf-rt6898whjfwehj72374327?variant=31036472655970 Which offers pricing of: 1 key for $75 2 keys for $135 5 keys for $225 10 keys for $375 Which seems (relatively) cheap – but Windows only – I could not see a Mac equivalent The actual MS site seems to only offer the Office Home & Business 2019 –$349 for 1PC/Mac!! One-time purchase for 1 PC or Mac Classic 2019 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook If you look REALLY hard you can find this page relating to volume licensing –it really want to direct you to Microsoft 365 but says; For customers who are not yet ready for the cloud, Office offers three suites that are available through volume licensing—Office Professional Plus 2019, Office Standard 2019, and Office Standard 2019 for Mac (which seems to include the product offerings I showed above from softwaremart): https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-office-volume-licensing-suites-comparison but it does not lead to any actual specific package offerings and wants you to “Contact a Microsoft Certified Partner to find the best solution for your needs”. Good luck making sense of it all!! Forgive the ramble on – hopefully something might have been useful! Cheers Neil From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Peter Crisp <[email protected]> Reply-To: WAMUG <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 29 August 2020 at 11:44 To: WAMUG <[email protected]> Subject: Re: iTunes Hi Stephen, I’ve been a bit busy but this morning I had a look at the Software Depot site and I saw the Office 2019 Home and Business for Mac was on sale for $227. On other site I saw better priced (~$100) so I think that is an option but I will pursue further for a multi user licence for others in the house too. My Dad had used City Software as a provide he used for many years, plus others too. Will check around for best option. Regards Pete On 20 Aug 2020, at 6:01 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Peter. In May I bought from SoftwareDepot.co Office 2019 Home & Business for Mac. It was online and cost $124.99 On 20 Aug 2020, at 5:24 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for this Ronni. I have yet to make the move to Catalina (2013 MBP Retina). There is only one reason I am holding off for now and that is because I have an MS Office licence installation (2011 - I know it’s a bit ancient) but it is 32 bit and will be defunct when I shift to Catalina. I prefer the owned software approach to the web licensing with annual renewal fees for what is a VERY infrequently used software but no driving force to make a shift to Office 2016 or later. But, notwithstanding the above, I have my Music library on an external drive (along with my Photos library) and I wondered if this fact will be handled seamlessly with upgrade to Catalina and subsequent opening of Apple Music app and Finder etc? Regards Pete. On 20 Aug 2020, at 10:51 am, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Peter, As Stephen has mentioned... With macOS Catalina, your iTunes media library is now available in the Apple Music app, Apple TV app, Apple Books app, and Apple Podcasts app. And Finder is where you can manage and sync content on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210200 Kind Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB On 20 Aug 2020, at 10:38 am, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Peter. I am pretty sure iTunes was replaced with Apple Music and Apple TV. On 20 Aug 2020, at 10:27 am, Peter Curtis <[email protected]> wrote: Hi everyone I removed iTunes from my computer some time ago, but find that perhaps I was too hasty. Can I download iTunes from Apple? if so from where? 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