But even the suspiciously under-priced subscription was sketchy, as the buyer learned when he read the seller’s followup email. It turned out to be a subscription to Office 365, not a product key for a copy of the Microsoft Office desktop suite. In January 2019, Security researcher Brian Krebs recounted the experience of one of his readers who paid $3.97 for one of these “fuzzy” software deals. Even then, you can’t trust what you read you have to use common sense to avoid getting burned.
You can’t tell what’s being offered without reading every word of the description. Office Home & Student 2019 (which includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint) can be had for a one-time purchase of $149.Ĭlearly, Microsoft wants to move people towards SaaS (cloud-based Software As A Service), not traditional software that you buy once and install locally.īut on eBay, there are many sellers offering things like “Microsoft Office 2019 (Office 365) Pro Plus,” which is a mashup of search keywords and not even an actual product name. It comes with a $440 perpetual (non-expiring) license for only one user on one PC.
The equivalent desktop software package is Office 2019 Professional. Each user gets 1 TB of OneDrive storage space. The Microsoft 365 Family edition (formerly called Office 365 Home) includes a license for up to 6 users on multiple devices Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access, Skype, and OneDrive. Don't Get Burned by Sketchy Office Software Deals
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