The good news is, you don’t actually have to keep paying for it forever. Right now, a lifetime license for Microsoft Office ...

Office 365 will be offered as a Personal subscription for one user, at $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year. Probably more cost-effective, however, will be the Office 365 Home plan.

On April 21, Office 365 will become Microsoft 365. New AI and cloud-powered features are coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Some readers have asked whether it makes sense for an individual to move from an Office 365 consumer account to a commercial account.

Learn how to upgrade or downgrade Microsoft Office 365 plans. You can also change from an Office 365 Personal to a Home subscription or vice versa.

Perpetual Office 365 licenses for Home Use Program (HUP) customers are no longer available, with only subscription purchases on offer.

The cheapskate's option: Office 365 Home If your business is literally a one-person shop, you might be tempted to choose an Office 365 Home subscription over one of the more expensive Office 365 ...

Microsoft says that while they have already begun rolling the features into Office 365 Home and Personal, the process for updating all accounts will take about a month.

Office 365 subscribers will now get the same ad-free experience that was available with Outlook Premium, eliminating banner ads and advertisements in the message list.

But there's a downside to this: Outlook.com Premium is being discontinued (as spotted by Paul Thurrott). At least for now, that service includes features not found in Office 365 Home or Personal.

Ending months of speculation, Microsoft confirmed today that it will bring Outlook.com Premium features to Office 365 Home and Personal.