Updated: July 13, 2020 (October 1, 2012)

Office 2013 Consumer and Small Business Offers

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Office 2013 will be offered to consumers and small businesses in five packages, including two Office 365 subscription plans.

The two Office 365 plans will be offered as annual subscriptions, delivering Office desktop applications that will stop functioning when the subscription expires, as well as access to Microsoft-hosted online services. For consumers, the Office 365 Home Premium plan includes the applications of Office Professional with 20GB of storage in Microsoft’s SkyDrive online storage service (versus 7GB available for free) and 60 Skype World Minutes, which enable domestic and international calls to telephones with Microsoft’s Skype communications service. It covers one household with up to five computers running Office. For small businesses, the Office 365 Small Business Premium plan offers the Office Professional applications plus Lync and InfoPath, and Microsoft-hosted Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync services. It covers a single user with Office installs on up to five computers, and temporary installs on more.

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