"Microsoft's productivity suite is well appreciated, but few know the core differences between Office 2013 and Office 365. With the high level of usability of both packages, we explain and compare both versions, head to head in order to let you choose the one that suits you best."
Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, creates and licenses a lot of products and services in the computing field. It’s the biggest software maker worldwide when it’s about of sales and value.Microsoft Office is one of its famous products which is available for both Windows and Mac OS X platforms since 1989 (and even on iOS or Android, sort of).
There are a bunch of different versions and lately, users can get access to two similar Microsoft products: Office 2013 and Office 365. Not many of them know the differences between these services and maybe neither do you, so we’re about to tackle each one and highlight their features, while lining up any worthy difference.
Microsoft Office is actually a suite of desktop applications, among which we can find the well-known Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access applications. Through the years, the number of applications has grown significantly and now, the current version contains over 10 different products.
The main program in Office is Microsoft Word, a text processor, which is the most used application of its kind. It uses the DOC format which is the de facto standard of documents in Windows, although with the launching of Office 2007 a new format appeared: DOCX which is a XML-based format.
Excel is a spreadsheet program, PowerPoint is a presentation program and Access is a database manager and other programs complete the Office suite, like OneNote, InfoPath, Outlook, Publisher, Visio and more. But let’s take a plunge and see which one is included where.
Office 2013
Microsoft Office 2013 is the successor of 2010 version and comes with a new retouched interface along with more features. With the latest version, Office became a more cloud-based suite of applications thanks to its integration with different online services, including Outlook, Flickr, SkyDrive, Skype and more. With a simple log in into the SkyDrive account, users can directly save their documents, presentations or databases on their personal cloud through the Office apps.
It was never easier to create, upload and share documents with colleagues or friends. Furthermore, depending on every user’s needs, Microsoft created three different application bundles: Office Home and Student 2013, Office Home and Business 2013 and Office Professional 2013. The differences between them are the programs that are included in the package and their prices.
While in the Home and Student bundle users will find only basic programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote), in the Home and Business will also find Outlook and in the Professional will be able to use Publisher and Access too. Also, the prices vary like this: $139.99, $213.99 and $399.99 for a life-time license to use on only one computer.
As a bonus, every user benefits of 7 GB of free cloud storage on Microsoft’s own cloud service, SkyDrive. Whether they are online, or offline, users can access their documents and personal stuff through the SkyDrive app. Furthermore, it’s possible to view, edit and share documents stored into the cloud account through any supported browser.
Office 365
Office 365 works as a subscription online office software which offers a great variety of applications and services for up to five computers on the same time. It’s built around the Microsoft Office platform and it’s the successor of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite which has initially launched to provide e-mail, social networking and cloud storage to businesses.
The most interesting feature is Office on Demand, which permits a quickly download of a virtualized version of the most important apps (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.) on a computer that isn’t yours. So, besides those five computers on which you can install Office 365 you can do this too, without extra charges.
As soon as the Office on Demand is closed, the service stops working. The bad thing is that it cannot be used on Mac, Linux or Chromebook computers, being compatible at this stage only with Windows platforms.
The good thing is that as a subscription member you will be always able to update and upgrade the programs, whatever version you already have installed on your computers. Also, as an Office 365 subscriber, you will get an additional 20 GB of storage on SkyDrive and 60 Skype world minutes per month.
With Office 365, users have a more varied palette of bundles, whether you are a simple student or you represent an enterprise, you will always find here the solution that fits best to your needs. Office 365 contains seven programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher) and for a regular account users have to pay $9.99 monthly or $99.99 a year.
For the other account types the prices start from $79.99 per year for a student account to $20 monthly for every user in the case of an enterprise account type. For a full list of business plans and features, you can check the Microsoft’s list here.
(Source:www.techpp.com)
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