Why Does Office 365 Have Better Features?

July 05, 2021 - by Bill Jelen

Problem: I have Geography and Stock Data Types at home, but not at work, What is going on?

Strategy: You have Office 365 at home. Buy agreeing to pay a monthly or annual fee for Office, you are getting frequent updates and new features. If someone buys Office 2019, they get a few new features, but they will never get the new monthly features. The days of the annual Service Pack are gone.

In the good old days (2003, 2007, 2010, 2013), Microsoft would spend three years putting new features into Office and the customers would invest $400 every other release. Now, Microsoft wants you to rent your copy of Office. Pay $10, $12, or $15 a month or $99 a year and you will get monthly updates.

I originally said that I would never rent Office. But then Microsoft started putting must-have features in Office 365 and not in the regular release of Office, so now I can see that renting Office 365 is the only logical choice. With Office 365, you will get to use mobile versions of Excel on an iPad, iPhone or Android device.

This article is an excerpt from Power Excel With MrExcel

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