Microsoft’s push to push Windows and Office users to buy Microsoft 365 subscriptions can be annoying, but to its credit, the company is one of the few that has continued to sell buy-once, use-everyday versions of its flagship software after launching the subscription model. The company officially launched this week Microsoft Office 2024a new “closed-in-time” update for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other apps for people who don’t want constantly evolving versions of Microsoft 365.
For end users, Office Home 2024 You get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for $149.99. Home and business office 2024 It costs $249.99, which adds Outlook “and rights to use applications for commercial purposes.” Both licenses cover one PC or Mac.
new Office Long Term Service Channel (LTSC) products. They are also issued to companies and other organizations; Office LTSC Professional Plus 2024 for Windows also includes an Access database management application. Project 2024 and Visio 2024 are also still offered as standalone products.
The new apps include most of the changes made since Office 2021 was released three years ago; Microsoft details those updates here And on Its own documentation learning site. Unlike Microsoft 365 editions, perpetually licensed versions of the apps won’t get ongoing feature updates, they’re missing some real-time collaboration capabilities, and you also won’t get any Copilot AI assistant-related features.
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