Here's a tip for those wishing to save money on their Office 365 Home renewal.
If you were to click on the Buy button when you get the message, "RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION To keep your Office applications with interruption, please renew by...Office 365 renewal message", and renew your subscription, you may be paying more than you need to.
As you can see from the following screenshot the cost for Office 365 Home is $119 if you renew on the internet.
Checking the cost on the Microsoft online store Office 365 Home is $119 (the same as the renewal online) and Office 365 Personal is $89.
However last year I decided to do a test and found you can renew your subscription by buying the Office 365 subscription from Officeworks (or possibly another retailer) and the renewal worked fine. The only problem I found is you need to wait until the last day, otherwise the renewal starts from the day you enter the subscription and thus you could lose a couple of days if you update early. It doesn't simply extend the renewal.
The benefit is Officeworks has the Ofice 365 Home subscription currently for $87 (limit four per customer for the card, but no such limit for the box version) and Office 365 Personal for $77. In both cases a good saving can be made by purchasing at Officeworks. A quick check of the other major retailers found their prices were higher.
For those with staff discount at Officeworks, even better.
Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.
If you were to click on the Buy button when you get the message, "RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION To keep your Office applications with interruption, please renew by...Office 365 renewal message", and renew your subscription, you may be paying more than you need to.
As you can see from the following screenshot the cost for Office 365 Home is $119 if you renew on the internet.
Checking the cost on the Microsoft online store Office 365 Home is $119 (the same as the renewal online) and Office 365 Personal is $89.
However last year I decided to do a test and found you can renew your subscription by buying the Office 365 subscription from Officeworks (or possibly another retailer) and the renewal worked fine. The only problem I found is you need to wait until the last day, otherwise the renewal starts from the day you enter the subscription and thus you could lose a couple of days if you update early. It doesn't simply extend the renewal.
The benefit is Officeworks has the Ofice 365 Home subscription currently for $87 (limit four per customer for the card, but no such limit for the box version) and Office 365 Personal for $77. In both cases a good saving can be made by purchasing at Officeworks. A quick check of the other major retailers found their prices were higher.
For those with staff discount at Officeworks, even better.
Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Call 0415 910 703 for IT support.
Under Windows 7 what is interesting is you'll continue to get nagged for over a month. That may be a good way for some people to get an extra month's usage out of their subscription. On the Mac however, Office 2011 has editing features disabled almost immediately. No bonus time for Mac users.
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