I’m a student/parent/educator, which version of Microsoft 365 should I choose? Learn more about the differences between Microsoft 365 and Office 2019 in Office Support, or use the comparison chart to help you pick the right Office version for your needs. One-time purchases don’t have an upgrade option, which means if you plan to upgrade to the next major release, you’ll have to buy it at full price. Office 2019 is a one-time purchase that comes with classic apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint for PC or Mac, and does not include any of the services that come with a Microsoft 365 subscription. With a subscription, you get the latest versions of the apps and automatically receive updates when they happen. Microsoft 365 also comes with services like 1 TB of OneDrive storage, 60 Skype minutes per month and Microsoft chat and phone support. The apps can be installed on multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and Android phones. Microsoft said it will commit to another version sometime in the future.Microsoft 365 is a subscription that comes with premium apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access (Publisher and Access available on PC only). If you’re a fan of the one-time Office model (also known as an on-premises suite, in Microsoft parlance) you’ll be happy to know that that model won’t die with Office 2019.
With Office 365, you’ll pay a subscription fee: $69.99 per year for Office 365 Personal, which grants you a license to one PC. (Amazon sells a single copy of Microsoft Office 2016 Home & Business for $205, which would put Office 2019 at at least $225, and possibly higher.) The tradeoff, of course, is that it’s a one-time fee: you’ll have to reinstall the apps yourself is your PC goes belly-up, but you’ll also own those apps for life.
As Computerworld reported earlier, however, Microsoft has said it will raise prices by 10 percent over previous versions. The big unanswered question is what Microsoft will charge for Office 2019, which still hasn’t been answered.
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