
Traditional installed software isn’t always convenient – especially if you need to work on different machines. It doesn’t benefit from the OneDrive upgrade, won’t get new tools over time, and can only be installed on a single computer. However, it lacks Access, Publisher, and Outlook. Office Home & Student 2021 remains on sale for a one-off price of £119.99.

So, has the ‘Office’ brand disappeared? Not at all.

Even if there’s just two of you, it makes sense to upgrade to Family, since it trims the fee to less than £40 each.

Each gets the same range of apps and their own 1TB of storage to keep their files separate. Where a Personal subscription only licences one user, opting for Microsoft 365 Family (£79.99 a year), lets you enrol up to six.
