I finally gave in and purchased a subscription to Microsoft Office 365. Up to this point, I have been using really old versions of Office. On my PC, I have an installer for Office 2007 from University of Indiana that does not need an activation code. I bought a home license for Office Professional 2010 for Windows but the activation code doesn’t seem to work anymore. On the Mac, I was using a really old version from Microsoft’s home use program, probably Office 2004 for Mac. That was working fine until I upgraded to OS 10.15, and that version of Office stopped working.
At work, we’ve upgraded to Office 2016 so I’m used to all the new features. I do have a work computer at home but sometimes I have to use my personal computer and I’m limited to Office 2007 on the PC and nothing on my Mac. I found out that because my work has an enterprise agreement with Microsoft, I can get a 30% discount on home use licenses. Originally I was going to get the family license since I have multiple computers and my parents also use Office occasionally, but since you can log into 5 devices on one account, any my parents can keep using Office 2007, I opted for the personal license. With discount, it’s about $50/year. I’ve installed it on my PC already. On my Mac, I’m out of hard drive space so I’ll have to clear some files out. Since I’m planning to get a M1 based Mac soon, I’ll be prepared when I do upgrade my Mac hardware.
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The subscription also comes with 1TB of cloud storage. That seems like an overkill. 1TB is a lot of data. I already subscribe to 100GB on Google and 200GB on Apple iCloud. I also have a 4TB NAS at home. The amount are ridiculous compared to my first “real” computer: Mac Plus with 1MB of RAM and 32MB HDD.
Life with chronic diseases 