Not sure if you should upgrade to Office 365 or Office 2013?

 

This article compares the differences between Office 365 and Office 2013 and asks which version is worth choosing.

With Office still available as a suite to install in the normal way, why consider Office 365 instead of Office 2013?

For that matter, why shouldn’t you stick with an older version of Office, if you already have one on your PC?
Outlook and licences

 

One of the biggest problems with Office Home & Student - the leading independent suite offered to home users - it does not include Outlook. The applications you get with Office 365 University (subscription available to students and staff of four years) and are equivalent to the Premium Office Professional 2013, the addition of Access, Outlook and Publisher to the usual four Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Subscriptions include commercial and business Professional Plus, which adds InfoPath, and Lync to provide the full nine strong private.

There is also the number of users and devices to consider. Office 2013 license to user consumption are in one device; commercial licenses allow the user to install Office on a desktop and a laptop; Office 365 allows the user to install all applications on up to five devices. Office 365 Home Premium goes further, allowing up to five users at home, so it is ideal for a family with multiple PCs, laptops and tablets.

t does not even matter if you have a Mac or two, because Office 365 allows you to run the latest version of Office in that, too . You should spend a lot of Office 2013 licenses for the same package offered by a single subscription to Office 365 Home Premium. If you are buying for personal use on a PC, not that impressive..

Upgrades and extras

 

Office 365 subscriptions include updates to new versions of Office as they’re released. If you buy Office 2013 through the retail channel, you’ll have to shell out again to get the next version. Business customers buying through volume licensing get upgrade rights only if they pay extra for Software Assurance.

Home users of Office 365 get an hour of Skype calls with their subscriptions – covering calls to Skype, landlines and mobiles – and the subscriber can choose how to share this benefit with the other users in their family.

You also receive an extra 20GB of cloud storage through SkyDrive in addition to the 7GB Microsoft gives to everyone free.

Business services

  

You can get free e- mail with www.outlook.com go with any MS Office 2013 , but Office 365 subscriptions to your company domain with addresses@yourcompany.com and the tools to manage your email through Exchange Online . To match the characteristics expected of the Business Office 365 subscriptions, you must purchase, install, configure and maintain Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Lync Server.

The costs of server hardware, server software and client access licenses would be substantial, and you'd need to use their experience in administration, or purchasing the services of a consultant, as these products are not easy to handle.

Purchase services online Exchange, SharePoint and Lync through Office 365 is released from the cost of running their servers in the company, and greatly simplifies administration (eg, let someone else worry about the copies of security). Note, however, that Telstra has been a bit “slow and limited to major changes when deploying Office 365.

Why not stick with your current version?

Even if you own a previous version of Office, a reason to consider shelling out for Office 2013 or Office 365 is a security risk. If you are using Office 2003 - any iteration or more - are no new security patches will be published in the future, as it is ten years, in April 2014, for example, the risk of exploitation of the vulnerability increases. .

Office 2007 and 2010 are still supported, but there are many new features in Office 2013 than previous versions will not be able to change, even if you can see. The new templates and themes in Word and PowerPoint are bright, fresh and easy to read.

The main applications stored on SkyDrive and SharePoint more easily than before, and I encourage you to share documents by sending a link instead of an entire copy of a document. Excel offers new analysis features such as sparklines and slicers, business intelligence and power features (BI) to analyze enormous data sets easier.

One of the biggest obstacles to upgrade to Office 2013 is the fact that it will not work in Windows XP. However, since XP will become a security issue after support ends in April 2014, you are going to have to intervene in all cases.