I just bought a new 16" Macbook Pro 5300 and want to BUY and INSTALL a local, individual, lifetime copy of Microsoft Office that is compatible with Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 WITHOUT SUBSCRIBING MONTHLY OR RENEWING IT AFTER ONE YEAR!
Which Office product suite can I buy to do this?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15
You were right! Thanks! I bought, downloaded and installed the Office suite. Now, I need to decide whether or not to opt in for the automatic updates. Is that a free Microsoft service? Will that tend to bloat my applications over time? I prefer to keep my apps lean, but don't want to have them become incompatible with a future Mac OS. Can you advise?
Microsoft updates replace the previous applications with updated versions. Do the autoupdate (which are free) so that you have the most recent compatibility between Office applications and the current operating system.
The updates to Office 2019 will always be free. They are released monthly and are a combination of bug and security fixes.
And by "updates", they are updates for Office 2019 which will always and only be Office 2019. The same as updates for Office 2011 never changed it from 2011 to any newer version.
MS has hinted 2019 may be the last perpetual license version. It's really only cost efficient for the user who will keep using that version through as many major OS releases it will run under (and MS themselves continue to support). Otherwise, if you price it out, the subscription versions actually cost less when you have even just two people using a 365 plan.
The $99 per year fee for six computers is a far better value than getting individual licenses for Office 2019. When you figure a perpetual license release has been happening roughly every three years, $300 over that time is much, much less expensive. If you were to purchase six Home version editions of Office 2019 (the one without Outlook) at $150 per license, it would be $900. For the Home and Business edition with Outlook, it would be a whopping $1,500! Then you'd spend that again about three years from now if you always get the latest release when they become available. Even installing Office 365 for only two devices is cheaper than the perpetual license Business edition ($500). Plus, since you can install Office 365 on any six devices you want, that means you can also install a copy in Windows so you have a working install of Access, which there has never been a Mac version of.
Ah, good to know! I'd run across a few articles (supposedly quoting statements made by MS employees) that 2019 may be the last. But, it was may, not for sure. So now it's confirmed there will be at least one more.
I had individual, lifetime licenses for Microsoft Word and Excel for the 68k. When the PPC came out I bought individual lifetime licenses for their OS X versions. When Apple transitioned to Intel I decided two lifetimes was enough.
Apple's current Macs will be the last ones using the Intel CPU. Decide accordingly.
A Best Buy Geek Squad specialist told me that ALL Microsoft Office products require either a monthly or annual subscription or renewal.
Well the Best Buy Geek Squad specialist is wrong. Did you read the info for purchasing Office 2019 at the link I provided?
I had read that the next Office for Mac after 2019 would also be a perpetual license, though I don't have the link to the relevant article. It was said in that article that Microsoft confirmed it.
Kurt,
Next perpetual version of Office to debut in 2021 - ComputerWorld, 2020-09-23.
Not the article that I think I read, but it will suffice.
individual, lifetime copy of Microsoft Office that is compatible with Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 ???
