Where to Buy Microsoft 365 Family License

[Greenmantle]

Obviously Microsoft are selling for £79.99 annual price but other places are cheaper.
Its just I cannot verify they are kosher!
Can anyone recommend a reseller for under £50?
Thanks.

[Harpoon]

Amazon is £50.99 at the moment

[eeLee]

I regularly stack special offer licences in our family M365, it runs into 2025 at the present time
So if you see offers, jump.

[paulrockliffe]

If you have access to the Home Use Programme via work it's about £50 that way too.

[QuartzDad]

An alert on Hot UK Deals is helpful, I usually pay £40 for 12 months and like above have it running into 2025 right now. (You buy 12 months, add it to your MS account and it extends your expiry date).

Can see 15 months for £54 or 27 months for £99 on HUKD currently.

[Condi]

Do you need 365? One off Office licences are cheaper, and last indefinitely. Only difference is no OneDrive, but you can use Google Drive for free.

MS Office 2021 Professional Plus - £30. https://www.gamekeydiscounter.co.uk/microsoft/micr...

Fully legit.

[andygo]

What about a Mac?

[craig1912]

andygo said:

What about a Mac?

Same site

https://www.gamekeydiscounter.co.uk/microsoft/micr...

[eeLee]

Condi said:

Do you need 365? One off Office licences are cheaper, and last indefinitely. Only difference is no OneDrive, but you can use Google Drive for free.

MS Office 2021 Professional Plus - £30. https://www.gamekeydiscounter.co.uk/microsoft/micr...

Fully legit.

The question is do you want to have Office enabled on basically limitless devices and 6 accounts with 1Tb OneDrive each.

My annual subscription is spread across 3 people and one server and I ensure that the annual price is less than 50 quid.

The pack also covers mobile and any OS available.

I think it's value.

[mikey_b]

eeLee said:

Condi said:

Do you need 365? One off Office licences are cheaper, and last indefinitely. Only difference is no OneDrive, but you can use Google Drive for free.

MS Office 2021 Professional Plus - £30. https://www.gamekeydiscounter.co.uk/microsoft/micr...

Fully legit.

The question is do you want to have Office enabled on basically limitless devices and 6 accounts with 1Tb OneDrive each.

My annual subscription is spread across 3 people and one server and I ensure that the annual price is less than 50 quid.

The pack also covers mobile and any OS available.

I think it's value.

Agreed. Also, that price of £30 seems suspiciously cheap, I don't think even the largest enterprise would pay that little for it. Also, 365 allows concurrent use of the same documents, assuming you can both access where it is saved. Granted that is a bit of a niche case for home users, but sometimes useful - and certainly at work I use it constantly.

[paulrockliffe]

Office 365 at £50 a year is £4 a month, you get 1Tb of storage. I pay Google £2.50 a month for 200Gb of storage, but you don't get any of the Office applications. You can use Office.com for free, regardless, which is the equivalent of Google's office online-only office suite.

If you can get value from one of the other 5 licenses in the family option, the numbers work even better, but I reckon as soon as you need to pay to store data you might ask well pay for Office 365.

(I only pay Google because it's buttons in the scheme of things and I need to extract my Wife's 100Gb of photos from there and make sure they're backed up somewhere else before I can turn that off)

[MrBen.911]

Condi said:

Do you need 365? One off Office licences are cheaper, and last indefinitely. Only difference is no OneDrive, but you can use Google Drive for free.

MS Office 2021 Professional Plus - £30. https://www.gamekeydiscounter.co.uk/microsoft/micr...

Fully legit.

Cheaper on EcoKeys - '21 Pro Plus is currently £18.49. Activation code came through instantly for me.

Agree with those saying 365 is better if you use the additional things it has, but if you don't use them and just want Office on one device then a one-off key is considerably cheaper and will last for years.

[Condi]

mikey_b said:

Agreed. Also, that price of £30 seems suspiciously cheap, I don't think even the largest enterprise would pay that little for it.

It's a second hand/used licence; companies buy Office new, and then they are entitled to resell the licence once they are finished with it. Microsoft are not delighted but there is nothing they can do about it after an EU court case agreed that once you own the licence it is yours to resell. It needs activating over the phone, that's the only difference.

If you're paying £50 a year for 365, but can buy a standalone version every 5 or 6 years it is much cheaper to get the standalone version. Until recently I had Office 2012 or something daft - Word and Excel don't change much, and you still get all the same updates as anyone else.

Edited by Condi on Wednesday 20th December 11:08

[eeLee]

SMALL companies might buy licences, the licence terms may also allow resale.

Bigger companies will likely be subscribing to one of these: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/ente...

The Workplace Discount Program (previously HUP) will get you some discounts if your company is knee-deep with MS: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/workplace-discount... and might also get you a good deal on an individual or family sub (but street price will often beat this).