Discounts, however, can be found at online outlets like Amazon, where "Key Card" options were priced today at $88.21 for Office 365 Home and $58.99 for Office 365 Personal.Īpple first announced that the Office applications would land in the Mac App Store in June 2018, during its annual developers conference. There is no difference between the purchase price through the Mac App Store and via Microsoft's website. One of the advantages of acquiring Office 365 through the Mac App Store is that the market then delivers updates and upgrades, rather than the Microsoft-made AutoUpdate app on macOS. They do differ, however, from those covered by retail "perpetual" licenses, including Office Home & Student 2019 (a $150 one-time purchase) and Office Home & Business 2019 ($250).
The applications are not any different from the ones Microsoft offers for download from its website or from a customer's Office 365 web-based control panel. It's unclear whether Apple will scrape its usual 30% off the top of Office 365 in-app purchases - as it does for all app revenue - or if Apple and Microsoft came to a different financial agreement.Įnterprises can also leverage the Mac App Store by using the Apple Business Manager dashboard to distribute the Office 365 applications to employees covered by corporate-grade subscriptions such as Office 365 Business or Office 365 Enterprise E3. If the latter, people have a choice between the $100-per-year Office 365 Home (alternately, $10 per month) and the $70 Office 365 Personal ($7 per month).
While the applications can be downloaded - and even run in a reduced functionality mode that bars actions like creating and editing documents, and sending and receiving email - the customer must already subscribe to Office 365 or obtain a subscription through an in-app purchase to unlock their full potential. The Office applications - Excel, Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, PowerPoint and Word - can be downloaded separately or as a bundled collection from the Mac App Store, Apple's e-market. "We're excited to announce that Office 365 is now available on the newly redesigned Mac App Store," Microsoft executive Jared Spataro wrote in a Jan.
The update provides several fixes to Outlook and PowerPoint.Microsoft this week for the first time offered its Office for Mac applications in Apple's Mac App Store. Unrelated to the Office 365/Office 2013 announcement, Microsoft released an update for Office for Mac 2011 on Tuesday.
However, those Web apps aren’t as full-featured as the desktop versions SkyDrive does provide the option to open a document directly in the desktop version of each program (provided that app is on your Mac). Accessible through a SkyDrive account, those apps let you create and edit Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations using Web-based versions of those apps, then save those documents to your SkyDrive or Mac. Mac users do have an alternative to Office on Demand: Microsoft’s Web apps, which have been available since 2010. But Office on Demand is a Windows-only feature it remains to be seen whether it will be available to Mac users when the next version of Office for Mac is released.
One of the marquee new features of Office 365 is Office on Demand, a service that allows a PC without Word, Excel, or PowerPoint installed to run those programs via Internet streaming. Mac users who sign up for Office 365 will also get 20GB of SkyDrive storage (up from the 5GB that comes with a free account) and 60 minutes per month of Skype calls.