Microsoft introduces the new Office version Office 365 Home Premium

Tuesday was a big day for Microsoft when they launched a new version of their Office software – the Office 365 Home Premium. It will be a great development for the company, whose Office suite has been one of the most popular software around for a long time now.

The new suite will be targeting the home users more than the professional ones. It will most certainly help the company to strengthen their footing and spell some tough competition, especially from Google which has many free online apps. It remains to be seen how the users approach the new version from Microsoft.

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The Office 365 Home Premium is tagged as being the first major revamp of the Office 2010. Though the latest version was launched on Tuesday, it was last month itself that some of the companies had got the new version. That was because of the contracts those companies had with Microsoft.

The new Office is likely to take on other companies like Apple and Google in this category. Though Microsoft has a domination in this field, there are a lot of Google apps, that can be used online and are very popular as well.

Microsoft reveals the price of Office 2013 and Office 365

Though Microsoft has been experiencing busy working hours in the run up to their Windows 8 OS, they have taken time off to officially declare the price tags of Office 2013 and Office 365. The standalone version in the suite will be accessible to be activated on one single computer.

However, the whole suite will also be there in the form of various packages. It will be customized according to the needs and demands of the users. Office Home as well as Student 2013 will be inclusive of PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote and Word. It has been priced at around $139.

Office Home and Business 2013 contains the entire range of earlier software. It will come accompanied by Outlook and bears a price tag of $219. The Professional package is the best in the category that not only has the earlier editions of the software, but will also have Publisher as well as Access. It can make your wallet lighter by around $399.

If you want to subscribe to the Office 365 Home Premium, you will have to pay $99 every year. 20GB of SkyDrive storage as well as one hour of Skype calling every month is what you will get as a subscriber.

If you were to buy the Office 2010, you will either get upgrades to Office 2013 for free or one full free year to Office 365.