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You’re about to get even more from your Office 365 Home or Personal subscription!

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Jared Spataro
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Aug 30, 2018

Today I’m pleased to share three exciting changes to Office 365 consumer subscriptions.  

 

Office on all your devices

The Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal subscriptions currently include device install limits. Home limits subscribers to 10 devices in total (across five users) and Personal limits subscribers to one PC or Mac and one tablet.  Starting October 2, subscribers can install Office on an unlimited number of devices—and be signed into their accounts on up to five of those devices at the same time. 

 

Six licenses rather than five

The Office 365 Home subscription is already an incredible deal. For just $99.99 a year, five people can get their own licenses to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote—plus 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage and other valuable apps and services. Starting October 2, we’re increasing the number of licenses in a Home subscription from 5 to 6. That’s right: we’re adding an additional person to the subscription with no change in price. To be clear, that’s 6 people with their own license and 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage each—for a total of 6 TB. We’re also integrating the Home subscription more deeply into the Microsoft family service, so your subscription will automatically be shared with the people you’ve set up as members of your family.  

 

Everything you need in one place

Since launching the Office 365 consumer subscriptions in 2014, Office.com/MyAccount has been the starting point for all account management. We’re pleased to announce that you can now manage your Office 365 subscription directly on the Microsoft Account portal. —the single place to manage all your Microsoft subscriptions, redeem your Microsoft Rewards, and access other Microsoft benefits. 

 

If you’re already an Office 365 subscriber—thank you! Your subscription is about to get even more valuable. And if you’re not, buy today!  

 

For more information about these changes, please see our detailed FAQ or our updated terms and conditions.   

 

Amendment (9/24): For more information about sharing your Office 365 Home subscription, please see our sharing article and our detailed sharing FAQ.

 

 

Updated Sep 24, 2018
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16 Comments

  • MaryB's avatar
    MaryB
    Iron Contributor

    or if those of us with only two people in the family could use the other 4 users to roll over to a second year of usage ;)

  • Gavin Francis's avatar
    Gavin Francis
    Copper Contributor

    Totally agree with Gary Q that it would be great if we’re able to manage the allocation of the aggregated OneDrive storage. 

  • Gary Quigley's avatar
    Gary Quigley
    Copper Contributor

    It would be great if you could configure the 6tb between the users, or use the space of any users not configured or not using any or some of it 

  • Brant Isom's avatar
    Brant Isom
    Copper Contributor

    This is great. What about those of us on Office 365 University? Will we also see the device limit lifted from the current 2 Installs?

  • Gavin Francis's avatar
    Gavin Francis
    Copper Contributor

    Great news.

     

    I’m so glad Microsoft is doubling down on its Office product offering - making it even more convincing to subscribe. I appreciate the bundling of different products/services into one packaged deal.

     

    Looking forward to future improvements and customer benefits.