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The Offer
Direct Link to offer (affiliate link)
- Amazon is selling a Microsoft 365 Family (12 month Microsoft Office subscription for 6 users) for $69.99. Plus you get a free $20 Amazon gift card.
Our Verdict
This is always a popular deal when it comes around. It used to be called Microsoft Office 365 Home and now is rebranded to Microsoft 365 Family. The regular price on Microsoft is $99.99.
View Comments (13)
I do this deal every year. Rock solid value, tho I still wish I had the classic Office which did not require a subscription!
You can still buy a (one-time purchase, lifetime) license to Microsoft Office 2021 on Windows or Mac. 2021 (I believe) being the most recent version.
You can get it now for $29.97 over at the Apple Insider Shop.
Have that myself, refuse to go sub on Microsoft. I don’t use it enough to justify.
most people (including me) buy the 365 deal for the 5TB (1TBx5) of cloud storage. For office stuff I like OpenOffice or LibreOffice better and open source and free.
what do i do if I have a current subsciption on microsoft.com can i cancel it and buy this one?
From my DPs last time: you can first buy a bunch of personal subscriptions, then add one of these family ones, and it'll convert all your personal subscriptions into family ones.
Not sure what happened but this ended up costing me $57 instead of $69.99. Plus I should get the $20 gift card in the mail.
No, they charge it separately...you'll see another ~12.99 charge for the GC
Can you use this to extend an already active 365 Family subscription?
Yes, and with a caveat. I've been purchasing discounted Keys when they're on sale, bought this. It activated, showing a "renewal" success. My current O365 subscription prior to the activation was Nov 2023, with the purchase of this my updated existing subscription shows as managed by Amazon and expires in February 2025.
So, my active existing subscription was extended the 15 months (which is what I wanted), now it's tied to my Amazon account (which I didn't want).
Yup, just extended my existing subscription by 15 months. Way cheaper than paying microsoft directly
Yes, you can bank your subscription up to 5 years:
"You can renew and extend the duration of a Microsoft 365 subscription for a maximum of 5 years." Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/renew-microsoft-365-for-personal-or-family-use-58f3d0f8-15c4-4ad8-8c5f-16d682e8b545
You can get $7.50 cashback via Rakuten on an annual sub