

Outlook, Access, and Publisher are not included, and you also miss out on the monthly Skype minutes, and you only get an extra 7GB of SkyDrive space. Desktop-bound customers, however, only get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. If a yearly subscription doesn’t sound tempting, you can also buy the usual desktop versions for a one-time fee of $140. You also get an extra 20GB of SkyDrive storage space and 60 free Skype world calling minutes per month. The preview runs on OS X Yosemite, it's free to use, and it includes a tool for providing feedback to Microsoft.

Pricing starts at $100 per year for Office 365 Home Premium, which entitles you to use the Office 2013 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, and Publisher on up to 5 PCs. Microsoft has just released a preview of Office 2016 for Mac, a suite which will include the current versions of Outlook and OneNote alongside newly updated versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. With the end of the Office trial period in sight, it’s time to decide whether or not you are going to fork over the money to keep using the new version of Office. When the preview period does end, Office Preview apps will enter a read-only mode. That puts the end of the preview period around March 30, 12 days from now. At the time, the company said preview versions would continue to work for about 60 days after the new Office release. Microsoft released Office 2013 and Office 365 for home users on January 29.
