

Microsoft is also tweaking the Home subscription to better integrate better with your family members, by automatically sharing you subscription with anyone you've named as family.

The move appears to be recognition that many of us have more than two devices, and arrives with no change in price. If you're signed into five and try to login to a sixth, you'll be told "limit reached" and asked to sign out elsewhere. There is a limit to how many devices you can be signed into at any one time, however. Plus, Home subscribers will get an extra user account, increasing from five to six.

Before, Office 365 Home subscribers were limited to five users across ten devices, while Personal was limited to one computer and one tablet.Īs of 2 October, that will change, with subscribers allowed to install on an unlimited number of devices. Microsoft will no longer limit the number of devices that Office 365 subscribers can install on, after previously capping. If you're a little puzzled about whether to buy Office 365, Office Online or Office 2016, or you’re unsure whether it’s worth investing in the more expensive options, look no further than our comparison, which details what each version offers in terms of features, integrations and more.

Although there are some pretty big competitors today, including Google's own suite of apps via Google Drive, Microsoft has done well to keep up, changing and adapting its offering as computer trends have demanded. Office has grown to dominate the entire home and business productivity market throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s. These applications existed as standalone products before Microsoft decided to package them all together in a super-powerful productivity suite. Microsoft Office, whether you go for the company's Office 365, Office Online or standard desktop apps offering comprises Word (for word processing), Excel (spreadsheets) and PowerPoint (slide show presentation) – with a few more recent additions, including Access (database), Outlook (email) and OneNote (note-taking).
