Office 365 Home Premium (Access) Vs the MS Office 2013 disk (1 Viewer)

I just recently bought a Toshiba with Windows 8.1. I downloaded the Office 365 which is $12 AUS per month.

In terms off Access is, the interface etc. the same as what comes on the disk.

As a side note converting Access 2003 to 2013 is a 10 second deal and that is with a big data base. Also the same data base seems OK leaving it as 2003 and opening it with 2013, althoughI have only a small amount testing.

One other question. In Australia some of the bigger electronic shops have Office 365 for $90 or so and it looks like it would be a USB plug in. I assume it is the same as the down load but there would be no repayments commence until 12 months after purchase.

I bought office 365 directly, primarily because I needed outlook. The off the shelf package allows you to install on up to 5 machines - and unlike disk versions of the software, appears to regulate this precisely.

These 5 installations can be several of your own machines, or other machines.

obviously you pay annually, which in the long run is more expensive - but on the other hand you always have the latest version.

seems a better deal than monthly licences to me


just to clarify - this is office 365 (ie not office 2013) bought with a download code, rather than a monthly registration

Mine was a down load and is Office 365 Home Premium. It has Outlook.

You can cancel the monthly payment at anytime without loss ie. it is not some sort of contract deal.

I appreciate the monthly sub version has outlook. I think it is only for one machine though, but the outright-buy provides 5 licences for the year.