It’s been three years since Microsoft released the 2021 version of its inescapable Office apps suite, but the company hasn’t been resting on its laurels. The subscription-based, always-online Microsoft 365 has been getting constant tweaks and updates in that time.
But not everyone is keen on software-as-a-service. If you’d rather pay a flat fee for software, here’s some good news for you: Microsoft recently released Office 2024 for consumers.
The base version of Office 2024 is called Office Home — I see Microsoft is keeping up its tradition of terrible branding — and it includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for a price tag of $150 on both PC and Mac.
Click here to grab Office Home 2024 for a one-time $149.99 flat fee directly through Microsoft.
There’s also the Office Home & Business version that adds commercial licensing, which really only matters if your business is big enough to have an HR department, for $250. (If you need to install on five or more machines, talk to Microsoft’s sales department for bulk licensing and be prepared for a hard upsell to Microsoft 365.)
The big draw of Office 2024 is that you can purchase the package once and use it forever — or at least for however long Microsoft keeps its purchase validation servers running.
But it’s also worth considering if you’re a power user because it offers improved performance, updated interface tweaks, and more data analysis and image embedding tools in Excel, as well as support for new features in the OpenDocument ODF 1.4 standard.
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