I use this subscription Office for several months now.
By subscription, it is necessary to understand that you actually rent your Office license, it is not for you as a full license.
Subscription understand a license for five separate positions and allows modification paper on mobile applications I use daily on 3 PC, iPhone and iPad. The updates to the latest version are included in the subscription (roughly one always has the latest Office).
Mobile side, Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) are well above in terms of functionality and ergonomics as their counterparts that Google jutilisais far.
PC side, the reputation of the Office suite is well established, well above its competitors, although most are free (is like comparing Gimp to Photoshop, there is no picture: D).
Note that this is the equivalent of the Professional Plus version of Office that is made available: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access, all in their latest version. Only Publisher is not included.
But the Office 365 subscription is not limited to Office license, each user (up to 5) has 1TB storage in onedrive and 60 mins of Skype calls each month, as well as access to web versions of Office.
This is to me that the money is unbeatable performance compared to the best-known competitors (Google, DropBox and Hubic):
- Google Drive 9.99 / month for 1TB
- Dropbox: 9.99 / month for 1TB
- Hubic: 10 / month for 10TB
Only Hubic done better storage space for the same price, but it is disproportionate 10TB for my use and the Windows client is not yet up to the onedrive customers, Dropbox or Google Drive.
Google's ecosystem is still a notch below what Microsoft offers in Web Service or SAAS and nonexistent on PC. DropBox is limited to storage.
So for the same price in terms of storage, you have potentially "5TB" (1TB for 5 users) and the Office license for 5 family members.
Moreover onedrive is natively implemented in Office 2013 and mobile applications, we can access their documents in the cloud quickly from any support.
It is of course possible to store any type of file (up to 10GB / file), personally I backup my photos automatically every night (for encrypted and zipped before sending files).
So I liked:
- An updated Office Pro Plus license, usable on 5 positions
- Online Storage 1TB per user (unlimited since 10/29/2014)
- A unified working environment: We start a Word document on your PC, it stores it in onedrive, we finish it on his shelf
- 10 / month or 99 / year (see sometimes much less via Amazon, I saw up less than 60), compared to a 2013 Office Pro Plus license which costs 539 for a single position, the calculation is quickly doing unless we want the long-term (keep the same version of Office several years) without migrating to the latest version
I liked least:
- You need a Microsoft (Live, Outlook, Hotmail) account, including Windows 8 and 8.1 when a local account (non-Microsoft) does not provide access to onedrive, shame on Windows 7 no this limitation
- 99 / year it seems expensive, it takes several positions with Office for cushioning
- We retreat into the Ecosystem Microsoft, like Google or Apple, choose unfortunately.