10 reasons why Microsoft 365 INSTEAD of Home & Student 2019 

Yes. But the gamble is we don't know when MS will push the another upgrade. Suppose you take a new PC with MS 2019 Home and in next 4 months you see a new MS office suite coming.

@@anuradhaverma7 as long as you dont need any of the features of the new version, you are good with you one time paid version.

Hi Werewolf :) It's not a scam at all, it's simply giving people options. If you don't use Office a huge amount and just need the Office apps every now and again for one device? Great! You can do just that with Home & Student, no subscription required. If you've got a few devices though, and especially if you have family or friends that also need to use Office, then Microsoft 365 Family is the way to go. £79.99 a year, but that gets you Office plus a range of premium apps/features for 6 different people, each person getting 1TB cloud storage and can use all of that across 5 devices each. If you were to absolutely max that out, that's the equivalent to 30 Home & Student licences which would cost you just shy of £3600! Even if you only had two users with two devices each, that's still just under £500, plus you're guaranteed to get the latest version of Office when it comes out so there's no need to buy a new licence to upgrade. Same goes for if you upgrade your laptop. Sounds pretty good to me ;)

@@MicrosoftExpertZoneUKI 365 still sounds like a bad deal to me. You'd still end up paying more for 365 vs the Home plan in the long run.

@@anubiswerelupe It completely is. Most people would never use whatever ''premium features'' you get, same goes to whatever an upgrade would bring you. I find it similar to how people try to promote renting over buying houses, at the end of the day you end up wasting your money and own nothing. It only works if you want a short term trial for a group of people, which is a niche scenario I suppose.