Microsoft Office Home & Student 2010
Microsoft is now offering a much cheaper version of its Office suite for use at home for a fraction of the cost of your typical Microsoft Office package, what does this include and why is it so much cheaper than the other versions that Microsoft produce?
What is included?
Included in the Home and Student package is Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. These are the main three programs that would be used by a typical home user or student.
Microsoft Word is a powerful word processor used for writing letters and reports, creating posters or signs, printing envelopes and many more.
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program which allows you to easily organise, present and manipulate data using calculations tables and charts
Microsoft PowerPoint allows you to create feature rich presentations over many slides with full animation and multimedia
The programs are the full versions with no features removed or limitations in place compared to the other Microsoft Office packages available
What's to prevent businesses going out and buying this version?
Microsoft Outlook is not included in the Home and Student Licence. Outlook is an Email program which would be used to send and receiving emails in a business environment when connected to a Business network with E-mail Servers such as Exchange. For the home use you would never have an e-mail server in place as you would be using either Hotmail, Gmail or Emails provided buy your broadband supplier in which case using Windows Live Mail which comes preinstalled with all versions of Windows will work without needing to use Microsoft Outlook
How Many PC’s does this include?
Home and Student is licensed for use on up to 3 Computers at any one time as opposed to the Home and Business and Professional suites which are only licensed for one PC at a time.
Prices from
Microsoft Office 2010 Home & (Student 3 license) £99 + VAT
Installation on up to 3 machines * £50 + VAT
* Machines brought into our office by the customer