Now, looking at Office 2011, I’m not sure what I’ll do.
OFFICE FOR MAC 2011 BUY SERIAL NUMBER
The old policy of serial number checking made much more sense for owners of multiple Macs-we could be fully licensed for a reasonable amount of money, and easily work on any of the Macs we owned. Why should I have to pay so much more for the ability to work on any Mac I own? It makes no sense. (I guess I could put my laptop next to my desktop, and move my hands from keyboard to keyboard…but still, I’m really only using one Mac at a time!) And yet, simply because I own multiple Macs, I have to pay Microsoft as though I’m installing and using all of those copies at the same time. I cannot physically use more than one copy of Office at one time. It feels like Microsoft is penalizing those who own multiple Macs simple because they own multiple Macs. So to fully license my five-Mac household-even though I’m the only user of Office-I’m looking at either $298 for two copies of the three-install Home and Student versions, or (gasp!) $757 for the Home and Office version (a single-install version at $199, and two two-install versions at $279 each).
OFFICE FOR MAC 2011 BUY INSTALL
(Why does a user buying a more-expensive, higher-end version of the suite get one less install than someone buying the cheaper version of the program? That makes no sense to me.) For multi-Mac households, you can buy a $149 three-install version of Home and Student, or a $279 two-install version of Home and Office. The $119 Home and Student version allows one installation, as does the $199 Home and Office version. With Office 2011, Microsoft has switched to an install-based licensing plan. So I could install Office on all five of my Macs, and move my work easily between them by simply insuring that Office wasn’t running on any Mac other than the one I wanted to work on. As someone who owns five Macs, this setup was perfect for me: I’m one person, and I don’t need to run more than one copy at a time.
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