Office365 costs11/10/2023 ![]() It is NOT to be used for a commercial environment like a business.įor reference sake, take a look at Opens a new window M365 Apps for Business Opens a new window. This is promoted for the reasons against piracy and promoting use I previously mentioned in a given home. The single license purchase that is intended for multiple different people and devices to use it is M365 Family. Which, this also promotes users using M365 more because it is available. It also cuts back on piracy of people taking home their work license to install at home so they can work there, etc. Most people are only working on one device at a time. The reason they allow this is that the one license will not be used on all five at the same time. The intent is that this is for *one* person to have it on five devices, ie: work desktop, work laptop, home desktop, home laptop, tablet, mobile phone, etc). Thelanranger - My understanding is that with regards to businesses, yes, you can buy one license and install it on five devices. Overview of licensing and activation in Microsoft 365 Apps - Deploy Office | Microsoft Learn Opens a new window This might also be worth reviewing in general before making a purchase decision: But honestly, if you only have one sign-in on the computer that everyone shares like, "staff" or some such, then M365 will treat it like it is a single user. Since Business licenses are technically licensed per person, you might want to look at Apps for Enterprise registered to a device Opens a new window. Or you can do updates by downloading to a USB and copying to the machine and manually running them.Įither option, you shouldn't need the AD Premium for the conditional access from my understanding. You won't get updates, but if it is never on a network, that might not be as big of a concern. Ideally, if you never ever want to put your computer on a network, then buy Office Home & Business 2021 Opens a new window. But that does look to be limited to 180 days. You can setup a machine to have extended offline access Opens a new window. I do not know that you would need the AD Premium licensing. Here is the M365 Business comparison matrix Opens a new window (recommended for small/medium businesses with under 300 licenses) for your reference. This is *only* desktop-installed Office applications. What you would want if you went M365 for licensing is M365 Apps for Business. You would not want M365 Business Basic, which is email only and *web* Office applications. This has the desktop-installed Office applications and an email account to go with it. ![]() If you're paying $12.50/license/month/user then you are paying for M365 Business Standard. If they ever did away with some of the little 'loopholes' to allow people to activate 5 machines per license there'd probably be a mass exodus of that product because SMBs would simply no longer be able to afford it. It is kind of ridiculous how expensive the 365 products are tbh though. The monthly fee version really is just cheaper. The 'enterprise' license is going to be about $500-600 + some kind of MSP licensing shennanigans like you have to buy a min of 5 of them or 2 + 3 other things so it's at least 5 items then add on software assurance so you can actually download it.and then you're going to need to rebuy it every 3 years so all your versions match. But the 'Apps' license is about $99 a year for 5 PCs and comes with one drive. ![]() The only real annoyance with this is that if there's frequent user switching on the computer then it becomes a headache and you might as well just buy a copy of Pro Plus or something. Just get the basic license for a user and have the machine activated with some generic other user to activate office and turn off the file collaboration. I do that regularly for SMBs that don't use file collaboration too to cut back on the costs of the $12.50 a month per user. If you just need the locally installed office and nothing else (no email/file collaboration/etc) you can get the 'basic' license and install that on up to 5 computers. Also, it's not really that much per computer. ![]() You can, but it's more expensive than that. Or what are other manufacturing or warehouse admins doing?
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