Microsoft removes non-subscription SKUs from Home Use Program

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Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away. This may not affect many but is a nice perk if you work for a large company using Office. Here’s an articl
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It’s really too bad – but a sign of the times.

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If your company has Office 365 Business or Business Premium, and they have purchased a license for you, you can install it at home as well as having it on your work computer. In fact you can install it on up to five devices total – your work computer plus four more.

So while you won’t have your own license, you will have a very generous offering as long as you have your current job.

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MrJimPhelps wrote:

If your company has Office 365 Business or Business Premium, and they have purchased a license for you, you can install it at home as well as having it on your work computer. In fact you can install it on up to five devices total – your work computer plus four more.

So while you won’t have your own license, you will have a very generous offering as long as you have your current job.

If you do that, you lose a significant portion of the benefit of Office 365, which is the ability to keep your documents backed up to OneDrive where they’ll be safe in case your system crashes, and the ability to access those documents while away from the computer.

Unless you’re fine with putting your personal files on the company OneDrive, of course…..

 

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Unless you’re fine with putting your personal files on the company OneDrive, of course…..

In the jobs I have had in the past several years, it wouldn’t have mattered; in my current job, it would be a problem.

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warrenrumak wrote:

Unless you’re fine with putting your personal files on the company OneDrive, of course…..

Actually last time I checked, the current official OneDrive client runs semi-separate instances for OneDrive personal and OneDrive for Business, and allows multiple accounts in each.

And I understand non-subscription SKUs didn’t come with cloud storage anyway? Sort of by definition even…

joep517 wrote:

Three Office 365 enterprise SKUs allow five installs on PCs or Macs. (same as business SKUs).

… and Education.

Yes, though it’s up to the organization on what is allowed locally. (As in Microsoft doesn’t mind if you install one at home, but your own employer might.)

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Three Office 365 enterprise SKUs allow five installs on PCs or Macs. They are Pro Plus, E3, & E5. Additionally on 5 phones and 5 tablets too (same as business SKUs).

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Like so many other things crushed under the steamroller of forced obsolescence, I’ll keep using my Office 2007 Home Use SKU for as long as it remains compatible with my computer, because it does everything I have ever needed it to do.

Makes me wonder how long it will be before Microsoft finally gives up on backwards compatibility, and makes the leap to forcing non-subscription licenses out of functionality.

 

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Yup:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/13/adobe_creative_cloud_licence/

(in a roundabout way, but the same end result)

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