
If you need Office on only a single PC, an Office 365 subscription quickly costs more after a year or so. (Right now, for example, you can still get a three-license version of Home and Student 2010 for $150, or only $30 more than a single-license copy.) Not only are those prices a bit higher than for comparable versions of Office 2010, but they also cover just one installation–and Microsoft isn’t going to offer discounted prices for multiple stand-alone installations. The $220 Home & Business edition adds Outlook, and the $400 Office 2013 Professional package throws in Publisher and Access. The $140 Office 2013 Home and Student version includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Unfortunately, the suite also costs more. Here’s how the Office 2013 icons appear within Windows 8’s Modern interface.
