Office 2013 prices start at $ 140

The cheapest version, Office 2013 Home & Student, is $ 140. The most "open" price is applied to Office 365 cloud service: with 100 USD / year, users are comfortable installing applications on 5 different devices, including smartphones and tablets.

Other versions include Home & Business for $ 220 and Professional for $ 400. These prices are announced by Microsoft's official website.

All three versions have Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and the ability to access applications, settings and documents anywhere via cloud computing. In addition, Office 2013 Home & Business also includes Outlook, and Office 2013 Professional also has Outlook, Publisher and Access.

Microsoft will sell the license only once for PC and Mac platforms. However, in case the buyer plans to install Office on the Mac, they will get the older version of Office 2012 because the newer version has not been introduced to this point.

Office 2011 for Mac was released in October 2010 and replaced Office 2008 for Mac. According to Microsoft, they do not plan to launch Office 2013 for Mac. This year, the update only takes place with the PC. New platform for Apple Macintosh will be introduced next year.

When buying Office 2013 licenses, users can install the product on a PC or install Office 2011 for Mac on a Mac computer. There are no OneNote and Access apps for the Mac package, and the Office 2013 Professional version can only be installed on the PC.

Office 2013 prices start at $ 140.

As for Office 365 cloud service, users have two packages: Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 Small Business Premium.

Both packages contain all the applications included in the most complete version of the Office 2013 Professional desktop, and the ability to access applications, settings and documents from anywhere via computing. cloud.

In addition, users also get the ability to install maximum Office applications on 5 devices including PC, Mac, smartphone and tablet and at no extra charge, and they can use Office on Demand function. is a function to "transfer" applications from the cloud to a computer system without the need to install them as usual.

Buyers of Office 365 Home Premium packages will have an additional 20GB on the SkyDrive data store and receive 60 minutes of free calls from Skype every month to phone numbers in more than 40 countries. Office 365 Small Business Premium buyers will receive an additional 25GB of storage for e-mail and calendar protection from viruses and spam; 10GB of shared cloud storage for organizations and 500MB per user, for services such as HD format video conferencing and tools for teamwork.

Office 365 Home Premium's annual subscription price is 100 USD; with Small Business Premium of 150 USD (per user).

According to ZDNet, Microsoft plans to start upgrading to Office 2013 on October 19, 2012. The Office 2013 RT version for Windows RT-based tablets (ARM processing architecture) will be released at the same time as these tablets, and will be part of the pre-installed operating system.