If you have been hunting to try out Office for iPad, but did not precisely feel like shelling out the full $10-per-month or $100-per-year for an Office 365 Home program, then may possibly Microsoft interest you in a slight discount? The firm this week launched a brand new Office 365 Individual Plan at a decrease price tag point.

Not that considerably decrease, although: The Individual strategy runs $7 monthly, or $70 for a year-long subscription. And that decrease price tag comes with far more restrictions: In contrast to the Home program, which makes it possible for you to run microsoft office professional plus 2013 on 5 PCs or Macs and 5 Windows tablets or iPads, the Private plan?aas the name suggests?aworks only on a single Pc or Mac moreover to one particular tablet. If you're a student, you also have access to a four-year Office 365 University subscription for $80, which delivers many of the very same positive aspects.

Otherwise, the Private plan is fairly close towards the Home program: Both give you access on smartphones and to online versions on the office suite, and each give you with offline storage at the same time as 20GB of further OneDrive storage per user. Plus, for the chatty amongst us, each plans include 60 minutes per month of Skype calling anyplace in the planet.

Even though some who were around the fence about trying out microsoft office 2013 standard may be swayed by the discounted strategy, it does still look on the pricey side: You can only deploy it on a fifth as a lot of devices, but it is a bit steeper than a fifth the price?athough, granted, you get many of the Home plan's other characteristics at the same time.

Though Office for iPad has racked up lots of downloads considering that its release, it really is unclear how a lot of of these cheap rosetta stone mandarine has managed to convert into paying users. Provided that considerably on the company's bread-and-butter clientele have access by way of their organization (as we right here at Macworld do), individual iPad users may possibly not have already been as swayed by Microsoft's subscription business model, specially when when compared with Apple's iWork suite. Still, the less costly price tag on the Private strategy may possibly make some converts, even if it appears unlikely to sway users of competitors.