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1. BEST BUY MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013 HOME AND BUSINESS INSTALL
2. BEST BUY MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013 HOME AND BUSINESS PC
3. BEST BUY MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013 HOME AND BUSINESS LICENSE
4. BEST BUY MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013 HOME AND BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL

The specifications for Office Home and Business are here. The dependency on a Microsoft account is not clear on Microsoft’s site.

BEST BUY MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013 HOME AND BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL

The approximate ex-VAT cost in the UK is £150 for Home and Business, versus £375 for Professional Plus. But you guessed: this costs more than double the cost of Home and Business 2013.

BEST BUY MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013 HOME AND BUSINESS INSTALL

You can install it without using click-to-run and it does not require a Microsoft account to activate. The ideal product is Office Professional Plus.

BEST BUY MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013 HOME AND BUSINESS LICENSE

You can overcome these problems by purchasing a volume license for Office 2013 instead. The new Office 2013 is still licensed only for one laptop, but also has some sort of relationship to an individual Microsoft account, which will be a nuisance if that person leaves the company. Office is licensed for the laptop, not the individual. With the old Office 2010 PKC, which did not require a hook to a Microsoft account, that was a smooth transition. Another is that the employee may leave, and the laptop transferred to somebody new. One is that the business does not want the employee to start using features like Skydrive which are attached to any Microsoft account other than Office 365. There are a couple of problems with the requirement for a Microsoft account. To view or manage any consumer subscriptions you may have purchased, please sign in with your Microsoft account.” This intrigues me, since if you have purchased a perpetual product called “Home and Business” you might imagine that is it neither consumer, nor a subscription. It says, “You’re currently signed in with an organizational account. If you sign into Office 365 instead, you get an error. You can enter the product key when invited to activate, but the process will not complete without logging in online. Unfortunately this is still a click-to-run install, and still requires a Microsoft account. You can also install from a DVD as discussed here, if you download the DVD image from Microsoft. Maybe these are fixed now, maybe not, but this choice has been removed. Personally I prefer the non-virtualised install, after experiencing problems with previous versions of Click and Run. When you do, you enter the supplied product key, following which the unavoidable next step is to sign in with a Microsoft account.Īnother feature of Office Home and Business 2013 (again different from Office 2010) is that there is no way (that I know of) to install it other than via Click and Run, which uses application virtualisation. Specifically, the normal way to install is to go to. The Office 2013 purchase is then tied in to some extent to that account. You might think that an Office 365 subscription counts as a “Microsoft account” but it is the wrong kind: it is an “organizational” account in Microsoft’s jargon, which is a subtly different creature. Office Home and Business cannot be activated without a “Microsoft account”. Next, they set up the laptop for Office 365 and install their new Office 2013. Note the designation Home and Business, indicating that it is fine for business use. They buy with it the closest equivalent to the Office 2010 Product Key Card, which is Home and Business 2013, this guy: With me so far? Now comes the moment when a new member of staff joins, for whom a new laptop is purchased.

BEST BUY MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013 HOME AND BUSINESS PC

This is licensed only for the PC on which it is first installed. That would normally be the OEM version or more recently the Product Key Card (PKC) equivalent.