Is MS Office (Outlook, Word, and Access) Permanently free? In other words, is there a yearly fee for MS office as with the IPAD or other tablets?
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for the surface two it is free forever .not so on the surface pro. is there is no annual subscription fee.
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Windows RT includes Office tools Word, Powerpoint, Excel, One Note. Access is NOT in the package. The tools are build into RT and there is no annual fee like there is with Office 365 on a Surface Pro 2 or 3.
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Its free and no charges or anything like that a year but remember it is the basic edition, It does work for me and I use office all the time on it.
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Permanently free when I purchased it and believe it is still the case. I believe that was the main benefit of the Surface RT.
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No. But it's trailware and doesn't give you full MS Office functionality for free. After the trial period is over it reverts. I just uninstalled the entire application and replaced it with libreoffice http://www.libreoffice.org/. If you don't need all of the advanced macro feature libreoffice will do the job nicely.
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You can Buy MS Office.. or freely download Open Office and install...same features and compatable. Openoffice.org
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Yea, it first comes as the preview version for all of them, but once you set up your account they give all the Microsoft office things like PowerPoint, word, and outlook. And it's all free!
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Consider switching to Open Office. Its free! Plus it can read MS office documents. In the "save as" options you can even save your Open Office doc as a MS doc. Just a suggestion from someone staggered by the price of office.
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No it does not come with MS office..how ever it has a trial version for 60 days.
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No MS Office, you have to buy it additionally. I have only used Flash and Reader from Adobe, it works as expected. I only had issues setting the whole Windows 8 at the beginning.
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Nope just a trial for office. You can download open office or libre office for free though
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You get a 45 day trial of microsoft office, Including outlook I think. There is also the standard windows 8 photo program
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Microsoft has stated that there is no plan to release MS Office 2013 for Mac, only an update that would enable Microsoft's cloud storage option. Your free upgrade would presumably apply to the next Mac version, when it ultimately is delivered.
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If you are worried about not having Microsoft office on mac you can also buy the mac version of MS Office, or try other alternatives such as Open Office and Google Drive, both of which are free. With Mac you will rarely have to worry about getting nasty computer viruses which can have dangerous viruses which are common on Windows. I would recommend a Mac to anyone.
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MS Office is readily available as a third party product and is fairly simple to install. It can be purchased with media kit or usually quite a bit cheaper as a download.
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It also comes free with Works 9.0 (which includes a basic word processor/spreadsheet).Unless you really really need MS Office, OpenOffice can be downloaded free online.
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As I understand it, the version on the tablet is a preview. The full version is supposed to be provided by Microsoft (for free) when it is ready. This version doesn't include Outlook, however.
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No. Due to the operating system, you cannot put microsoft office on it. google's response to this was "google drive" which is essentially microsoft office free online.
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No, those are Microsoft programs. A great freebie alternative is available called "Apache". Apache is an open source program which includes virtually all the elements contained in MS Office. Updates and upgrades are provided periodically. I personally prefer it (Apache)
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No. But you can easily download the FREE "Open Office" or "Libre Office" which are just as good.