It is quite restrictive, and we only recommend Office Home & Student’s one-off payment if you want the basic Word, Excel and PowerPoint set up on one computer and if you save files locally to the computer or a hard drive.
It also doesn’t get you OneDrive cloud storage, and you can’t use the apps on your phone or tablet - you must download Office to one PC or Mac and forever use it there. Unfortunately, that’s it - buying Office outright does not get you popular apps like Outlook for email or OneNote. Office Home & Student costs AU$199 as a one-off payment and includes: It does however receive security updates. Buying Office Home & Student 2019 as a one-off purchase means you will forever have that edition of Office, and you won’t receive software updates to add new features or upgrade to the next year’s version.
Office 365 does not have a year in its branding it as it is constantly updated. If you don’t like the idea of a monthly subscription and would prefer to pay once for Office and have it forever like the good old days then you can still do that with Microsoft Office Home & Student 2019 (current version at the time of writing). Read more Black Friday Deal: 15% off Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Can you buy Microsoft Office outright?
