
Office 2019 is a buy it once, and you’re done until you buy another version deal. Plus, let’s take a look at how Office 365 compares to Office 2019. RELATED: Why Microsoft's Office 365 is a Great Deal That’s a solid ten years of Office 365 subscription goodness. If you’ve got five or six people who need access to Office on some different PCs, you’re looking at over $1,000 for Office 2019 licenses (a bit less if some of them qualify for the education edition). We’ve done a full write up of why Office 365 is such a great deal, so we won’t go into full detail here. Honestly, it’s hard to find that good a deal just on that much storage space, let alone access to the Office apps.


That screenshot above is from Microsoft’s Office 2019 landing page, and it starts right off with equivocating language: “For customers who aren’t ready for the cloud” is partly straight talk and partly subtle dark pattern manipulation. Microsoft Is Clearly Downplaying Office 2019

Why not avoid a subscription fee for Office 365 and buy a perpetual license? Well, there are a few reasons. The consumer version, Office Home & Business 2019, isn’t available yet, but Microsoft has announced the price-$249. You make a one time purchase, and you get to keep on using it as long as you want-on one PC or Mac. It’s just like Office was in the days before the subscription-based Office 365 was in play. Office 2019 is the stand-alone, perpetual license version of Office.
