Apa Perbedaan Microsoft Office 2013 dan Microsoft Office 365 ?

1. What’s the difference between Office 365 and Office 2013?

First announced in 2010 to mainly target businesses, the 'old' Office 365 consists of hosted, online versions of Microsoft Server products, such as SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online. It’s subscription-based, with different monthly plans based on the size of the business (that is, number of licences needed), and the number of features selected. In addition to the cloud-based services, Office 365 subscription plans can also include a subscription to the desktop applications.

On the other hand, think of Office 20XX as your traditional, locally installed desktop version of the Office suite. There’s no need to pay any subscription fees; you pay once, and the licence lasts forever. Similar to past releases, apps in the new Office 2013 suite have a year designation in their nameplates, such as Word 2013, Excel 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Outlook 2013, and so on.

The big change this time round is that Microsoft is hoping that most users would get Office through an Office 365 subscription, instead of going the boxed copy route. Along with the various Office 2013 box editions, the Redmond-based software and services giant has also devised four new Office 365 subscription plans, one of which being the RM250/year (or RM25/month) Office 365 Home Premium that targets households. This plan allows Office to be used on up to five PCs or Macs (in any combination) and five mobile devices for all users in one household.

Put another way, you can get the Office 2013 desktop apps via two ways: subscribe to a new Office 365 subscription plan or buy a boxed edition of Office 2013. There are several advantages to the former, which we'll explain more below.

The other three known versions of Office 365 at this point in time are Office 365 Small Business Premium

2. What are the benefits of getting Office 365 Home Premium?

Office 365 Home Premium allows you to use Office on up to five computers (any combination of PCs and Macs) and five mobile devices shared among all users in the household. One nice thing is you change the five devices at any time. For PC users, you get all the Office apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, and Publisher. Mac users get the same apps, with the exception of OneNote, Access, and Publisher.

The new version of Office is also connected to the cloud. Whether you choose to subscribe or buy a perpetually-licensed edition, through your Microsoft account, you get to enjoy the convenience of online document storage and sharing. Besides the 7GB of storage space you get when signing up for a Microsoft account, Office 365 Home Premium will land you (the subscriber) an additional 20GB of storage space on SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud service for storing just about anything, from your documents and multimedia content, to templates and system preferences. Unfortunately, you can't distribute the 20GB to your other family members. Also, you get 60 minutes worth of Skype talk time every month. This covers landlines in over 40 countries and mobile phones in seven countries.

Another great feature that only Office 365 subscribers get is Office on Demand. Need to run Excel on a friend’s Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC that doesn’t have the app installed? Just stream the application over. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can gift an Office app to your friend – when you close the app, it’ll be removed from the PC.

Realize too that with an Office 365 subscription, your Office apps are always kept up to date automatically with the latest features and services, compared to just maintenance updates for the one-time payment, perpetually-licensed versions.

3. What if I run a small business with 10 employees?

Organizations with one to ten employees can consider Office 365 Small Business Premium. In addition to all the apps in Office 365 Home Premium, Office 365 Small Business Premium includes Microsoft Lync, an enterprise instant messaging software. Each user can install Office on up to five PCs or Macs.

Office 365 Small Business Premium also comes with a 25GB Outlook mailbox, shared calendar, contact manager, scheduling and task-list tools, 10GB cloud drive plus 500MB for each user, as well as the ability to host online meetings and even a website.

Note too that Office 365 Home Premium isn't meant for commercial use.

4. What if I use a Mac or an iOS device?

An Office 365 subscription will land you the relevant Office apps for your devices. However, since there's no new Office for Mac yet, when you subscribe to an Office 365 plan now, what you'll get is Office for Mac 2011, which has been out for a couple of years as a perpetually-licensed edition (at the moment, this is still available for purchase). Unfortunately, besides the absence of OneNote, Publisher, and Access for the Mac, many new technologies like Click-to-Run and Office on Demand are also not available for Office for Mac.

For existing Office for Mac 2011 users, a new version 14.3.0 update is now available. Besides bug fixes for Outlook and PowerPoint, this update adds support for Office 365.

While a new major version of Office for Mac is in the works, it won't be shipping any time soon. Our guess is that it'd take at least another 18 months. It’s also anyone’s guess if there will be an Office for iOS. Presumably, the current OneNote app for iOS and Android devices will be updated soon.

5. I'm a poor student. Is there any Office 365 subscription plan for me?

For students, faculty, or staff in institutions of higher learning (such as colleges and universities), there's a subscription plan called Office 365 University. This four-year subscription plan is priced at RM219.99, which works out to slightly over RM4.50 per month. If you're a student, there's a verification process to determine your eligibility. The difference in the number of installations permitted aside (two PCs or Macs), Office 365 University gets you the same benefits as Office 365 Home Premium (use on mobile devices, Skype world minutes, additional 20GB SkyDrive storage, Office on Demand, version upgrades), but at a much lower cost.

Alas, one can’t remain a student forever.

6. What are the prices of Office 2013 and Office 365?

Here’s a list of the different consumer SKUs for the new Office 2013 and Office 365:

*OneNote, Publisher, and Access available on PC only.

Note that Office 365 Home Premium will be available in both physical and online stores across 162 markets worldwide. A free 30-day trial will be available online. And as far as we know, Office 365 Small Business Premium will also be available in both physical and online stores across 86 markets worldwide for an annual subscription fee of US$149.99 per user (this works out to be about US$12.50 per user per month), and a free 30-day trial will be available online.

The other Office 365 business and Office 2013 pro offerings will be announced on February 27, 2013.

7. So, of all the different editions, you’d recommend Office 365 Home Premium?

The answer to this question is obvious: It depends.

For home users, the RM250/year Office 365 Home Premium plan does indeed look to be a very attractive proposition. And this becomes even more so as Microsoft makes the licensing terms of the locally installed, perpetually-licensed versions of Office Home & Student 2013, Office Home & Business 2013, Office Standard 2013, and Office Professional 2013 tougher, and increases their prices by at least 10% compared to their predecessors. For example, Office Home and Student 2010 had a RM358 package that lets you install it on three PCs in a single household; but Office Home & Student 2013 doesn’t. If you want to install Office Home & Student 2013 on three PCs, you’ve to buy three copies at RM340 each.

Let’s do the math from another angle: Say you were to subscribe Office 365 Home Premium for five years for RM1,250 (RM250 x 5), you still save more than getting five copies of Office Home & Student 2013 for RM1,700 (RM340 x 5). And remember, you don’t get Outlook, Publisher, and Access in Office Home & Student 2013, so it’s advantage Office 365 if you use any of these apps.

Of course, Office 365 Home Premium makes the most sense if you’ve a household of five. If you only want Office for a single PC, you can still buy traditional, device-based, perpetually-licensed versions of the Office suite, as detailed in the table above. Like the Office 365 plans, these offerings also allow you to save documents to SkyDrive.

8. What if my need is even simpler, and I just want one particular Office 2013 app?

Interestingly, over at Office.com, you can also find individual Office 2013 apps for sale. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, and Access cost RM429.99 each, while OneNote itself costs RM279.99. Unless one desperately needs Outlook, Publisher, or Access, which are available only in the higher-priced editions, we don't see many people paying such money just to get a single app.

9. What is this Office Home & Student 2013 RT?

There’s a version of Windows 8 for ARM-based devices called Windows RT. On these devices, Microsoft will ship a version of Office called Office Home & Student 2013 RT for free. It consists of the following apps: Word 2013 RT, Excel 2013 RT, PowerPoint 2013 RT, and OneNote 2013 RT. For the most part, it’s a fully featured Office with complete document compatibility, and looks-wise, the apps are very similar to their non-RT counterparts.

That said, to fulfill security, reliability, and battery life requirements of Windows RT devices, some features have to go in Office for Windows RT. For example, it lacks macros, add-ins, and features that rely on ActiveX controls, certain legacy features such as playing of older media formats in PowerPoint, and certain email sending features (Windows RT doesn’t support Outlook or any other desktop mail app). You also can’t create a Data Model in Excel 2013 RT, and record narrations in PowerPoint 2013 RT. And in OneNote 2013 RT, you can’t search for embedded audio/video files, record audio/video notes, and import from an attached scanner.

It’s worth pointing out that at the early stages when Windows RT devices first went on sale, they were pre-installed with a preview edition of Office Home & Student 2013 RT. If you’re an early adopter and have this preview edition, it’ll be updated automatically via Windows Update. You can also do the update manually by accessing Windows Update through Control Panel.

There’s a very good FAQ about Office Home & Student 2013 RT from Microsoft here.

10. Are there any Modern-style Office apps for Windows 8/RT?

While the Office 2013 apps sport the Modern look and feel, they’re still desktop apps and they run in the desktop environment. There are however two Modern-style, Windows Store apps that Microsoft has put out that will run on both Windows 8 and Windows RT: OneNote

11. Oh dear, I just bought Office 2010! Can I get an upgrade?

Starting from October 19, if you’ve bought Office 2010 (for PC) or Office for Mac 2011, you’re entitled to a free upgrade to an equivalent Office 2013 offering, or one year of Office 365 Home Premium. Small business customers will also get a three-month trial of Office 365 Small Business Premium.

12. Do I need Windows 8 to run Office 2013?

The new Office requires that you run either Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2012. Of course, you need Windows RT to run Office Home and Student 2013 RT. Obviously, to use features such as SkyDrive and Office on Demand, an Internet connection is also required.

Here are the system requirements for Office 2013 for PCs:

*There may be additional hardware or server connectivity requirements for specific components and features of Office 2013. For more info, check out this TechNet article.

13. Can I try the new Office before buying?

Previously, you can sign up for the Office 365 Home Premium Customer Preview here

The trial can run alongside Office 2010, Office 2007, and Office 2003. By default, the 32-bit version of Office is installed, but you can change it through your Office account. Here is also where you manage Office deactivations, new installations, and subscription cancellations.

Like Office on Demand, the Office 2013 installer uses Microsoft’s Click-to-Run virtualization and streaming technologies. It’d install the essential components first, so that you can get Office up and running as soon as possible. Then, it’d continue to install the other parts in the background. And make sure that you’ve at least 3.5GB of free disk space before installing the trial.

14. Okay, I'm sold. Where can I buy the new Office?

Boxed copies of Office 2013 and Office 365 subscriptions will be available at authorized retailers across 162 countries, as well as online at Office.com.

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