If you were to purchase six Home version editions of Office 2019 (the one without Outlook) at $150 per license, it would be $900.

When you figure a perpetual license release has been happening roughly every three years, $300 over that time is much, much less expensive. The $99 per year fee for six computers is a far better value than getting individual licenses for Office 2019. Otherwise, if you price it out, the subscription versions actually cost less when you have even just two people using a 365 plan.

It's really only cost efficient for the user who will keep using that version through as many major OS releases it will run under (and MS themselves continue to support). MS has hinted 2019 may be the last perpetual license version. The same as updates for Office 2011 never changed it from 2011 to any newer version. They are released monthly and are a combination of bug and security fixes.Īnd by 'updates', they are updates for Office 2019 which will always and only be Office 2019.

The updates to Office 2019 will always be free.

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