The Web-based installation offers both good and bad news. The website is the place from which you install and manage Office 365 on your devices. Instead, you get an installation key, which you use to install Office on your device from the Web. In fact, when you buy Office 365 Home Premium, even in a retail store, you don't get a DVD. With Office 365 Home Premium, the website becomes your command center - the place from which you install and manage Office on your devices.

That review was based on the preview version, but aside from bug fixes and similar small changes, Office 2013 is essentially unchanged from then. Outlook has been tweaked with improved searching and a streamlined navigation pane.įor a full review of these changes to Office with Office 2013, see my review Office 2013 beta review: Microsoft (almost) nails it. PowerPoint offers new tools including those for embedding photos and pictures from Flickr and Facebook. In addition to the new interface, there's also SkyDrive integration, touch-based navigation and features, and underlying changes to many of the Office applications.įor example, Word can now edit PDFs and has improved commenting features. In line with Windows 8, the applications in Office 2013 - and, by extension, Office 365 Home Premium - have a cleaner look, with less clutter and a flatter, less-noticeable Ribbon. These will also offer a variety of additional features there is no information yet on when they will ship.) (Note: Other upcoming versions include Office 365 Small Business Premium, which is designed for businesses with up to 10 employees Office 365 ProPlus, which will include 25 user accounts and 5 installations per user and Office 365 Enterprise. For $100 (there's a one-month free trial period), users can install it on up to five devices (including Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs and tablets, and Apple OS X computers). Office 365 Home Premium (which is the basic version of the suite) includes the core applications that are included in all versions of Office 2013 - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - as well as Outlook, Publisher and Access. You can think of Home Premium as a 'wrapper' of sorts around Office 2013, with extra Web-based features. Microsoft's Office 365 Home Premium is the new subscription-based version of Office 2013, in which Microsoft gave its office suite a thorough and well-done makeover.

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