Microsoft: Buy Office 365, Not Office 2013
There's nothing like a company competing against itself; who could be the winner in that scenario? The obvious answer is Microsoft and not the customer. If you are looking for a new version of Office Suite, you have two basic choices and neither is the perfect solution.
Office 2013 is apparently locked to a single machine, perpetually, while Office 365 licenses are sold to a group of users, who can license and de-license PCs at will.
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