If you are doing this, you can only submit 3 keys initially. Then you have to wait 4 months before you can submit the 4th one to get the full 5 years 4 months you would be "entitled" to. If you do buy more than 4 costco keys, keep the extras in a safe place.
And keep your userid and password in your will. If you get hit by the proverbial bus, you want your family to be able to continue using the subscription. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Install, upgrade and activate Microsoft and Office Search Community member. I currently have installed the Microsoft Office Professional Plus These are just a few questions I have before buying the cheap Costco offer of Office Family.
This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 8. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Perhaps this article will help explain the differences.
Note that Office is not "full blown" compared to Microsoft How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Didn't answer a single question I asked. Hoping I can get some answers to my questions as posted. Stefan Blom MVP. No reason to be snide. Microsoft Family will always be the most up-to-date because it's a subscription. The individual apps will receive feature updates.
It also allows you to share your subscription with five other people and you get expanded OneDrive space. You can also install it on as many devices as you own and use it on up to five of those devices simultaneously. Office is a one-time license for a single person and can be installed on exactly one computer and only once on that computer. While it will receive security updates, it will not get feature updates.
No additional cloud storage as well. You should not have both Microsoft and Office installed on the same computer, which means that if there are any applications you need that are in Office , you should not subscribe to Microsoft There is one case where you can have them both installed and that is if Office is an MSI installation and not a click-to-run installation.
MSI installations are generally for Volume License products. I have seen a report that they can both be installed, but that it can interfere with the Office license detection. It's not certain to me whether or not you can uninstall Office , use Microsoft for a subscription period, then uninstall it and reinstall Office Reason says you can, but I've seen Microsoft documentation that says you can install it only once and other documentation that says you can reinstall.
So, in the end, Microsoft is the "full-blown" version and I do think I've answered the questions you included, some of which were answered by the article to which I originally directed you.
I'm also sorry that you were so offended by the use of the term "full-blown," as you have once again referred to that term, even though I have clearly removed its usage from my original post, prior to your most recent reply, I should have stated the correct terminology for the software that I have currently installed: Microsoft Office Professional Plus So to everyone else that is following this thread, and who may have the same questions or concerns that I have I'm sure I'm not the only one that is in this situation , has my questions as posted been answered to your satisfaction?
Sorry you though I was snide. I didn't know what you meant by "full-blown", so I quoted it, as that was the term you used. I've seen mention of the costco offer before. It is a really good deal, you are not likely to see better. There is a second offer you can try to take advantage of. If you are lucky, this will trigger an "offer" of an extra "free" month if you turn it on. Turn it On, submit your key to get the extra month I believe it shows up immediately in your expire date.
Turn it off, start the process to submit the next key. If you are doing this, you can only submit 3 keys initially. Then you have to wait 4 months before you can submit the 4th one to get the full 5 years 4 months you would be "entitled" to. If you do buy more than 4 costco keys, keep the extras in a safe place. And keep your userid and password in your will. If you get hit by the proverbial bus, you want your family to be able to continue using the subscription.
Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Install, redeem, activate Microsoft and Office Search Community member. I currently have installed the Microsoft Office Professional Plus These are just a few questions I have before buying the cheap Costco offer of Office Family.
This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 8. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Perhaps this article will help explain the differences. Note that Office is not "full blown" compared to Microsoft How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Didn't answer a single question I asked. Hoping I can get some answers to my questions as posted. Stefan Blom MVP. No reason to be snide.
Microsoft Family will always be the most up-to-date because it's a subscription. The individual apps will receive feature updates. It also allows you to share your subscription with five other people and you get expanded OneDrive space.
You can also install it on as many devices as you own and use it on up to five of those devices simultaneously. Office is a one-time license for a single person and can be installed on exactly one computer and only once on that computer. While it will receive security updates, it will not get feature updates. No additional cloud storage as well. You should not have both Microsoft and Office installed on the same computer, which means that if there are any applications you need that are in Office , you should not subscribe to Microsoft There is one case where you can have them both installed and that is if Office is an MSI installation and not a click-to-run installation.
MSI installations are generally for Volume License products. I have seen a report that they can both be installed, but that it can interfere with the Office license detection. It's not certain to me whether or not you can uninstall Office , use Microsoft for a subscription period, then uninstall it and reinstall Office
