[Expired] Amazon: Microsoft Office Subscription for $99 with Bonus $50 Amazon Gift Card

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• People are still paying for Office?

  Reminds me of MCI long distance.

  • What is the alternative?

• If you only need Office 365 Personal (and 1TB storage for 1 vs 6 users), then this deal is effectively $20 off $70. So it's a 29% discount, not 50% off, if that's the case.

• can you cancel and refund the subscription after?

• Confirmed that this will extend a current Office 365 subscription by 1 year, just enter the product code in the 'redeem a code' section.

  • For those still tempted to jump, go to https://redeem.microsoft.com and enter the code there. This method was verified by a Microsoft support agent to properly extend, not create a new subscription.

    Going to Services & Subscriptions > Redeem a Code may not work correctly.

    I just used this method to successfully extend my current subscription.

  • When I tried to redeem the code, it actually creates a new subscription that expires 12 months from now, instead of extending my current subscription (which expires about 20 months from now). Spent an hour with Microsoft billing support and still no solution.

    • Interesting. My subscription was set to expire in August 2019, and was pushed back to August 2020 after entering the code.

      • Eventually support figured it out - the expiration date on the redemption page will show 12-month from now regardless if there is an existing subscription. Once I redeemed the product key, it did extend my subscription by 13 months (12 + 1 because of recurring billing). Hopefully no one missed out on this deal because my previous comment.

    • Not that this specifically helps your case, but per this Microsoft kb article, subscriptions can be extended for a maximum of five years.

      See "Will I get credit for unused time on my current subscription?" > https://support.office.com/en-us/article/switch-to-a-different-office-365-for-home-subscription-3fcc1efc-2722-427f-8efa-db94b9b0a36b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

    • Oh, bummer, I'll add an update. If anyone can figure out the correct method, please let us know.

  • Thanks! I'll add that confirmation.

• LibreOffice is free...forever.

• it looks like we can share with 6 members/devices ..Anyone interested in sharing subscription or two ?

  • I'd just recommend piracy. Reddit is a good resource.

• Is there any restriction on buying more than one and getting a 2-year+ extension?

  • Wondering this as well. I could purchase one and have my wife purchase one and we would have two year plan, per se.

  • Looks like there is a limit 1. Not sure if it's possible to purchase more than one by doing one per transaction.

• if this was the standalone, non-sub, version - I'd be all over it. Not a fan of MS subscriptions for Office

  • Honestly, it's one of the better valued software subscription packs being offered... especially when compared to something like Adobe's Creative Cloud

    Each user gets unlimited* installs of the full Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access), 1 TB dedicated Onedrive storage, 60 mins/month Skype call credit, and chat/phone support.

    That's pretty generous for $70 annually, or (especially) 6 users for $100 annually.

    Of course, if you don't use/value those benefits, it's harder to justify. Just wanted to clarify the benefits available... surprising number of people I run into think it's *just* Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

    (*5 installs of the suite can be active, or signed in, simultaneously. The others are inactive, or signed out. Signing in to it immediately reactivates the install, by signing out one of the other devices.)

    • I wish they had Neflix, Apple Music and Google Drive 1TB included. Feels like subscriptions has taken over and monthly bill is skyrocketing.

    • Totally agree. The 1TB storage would be a great value to me... The challenge is I pay for google storage as it links perfectly with Google Photos on my Pixel. If i had such a seamless picture experience through an MS app on my android, I would absolutely consider it one of the most fantastic sub values [admittedly, I've never really looked, so I think I might just go do that!]
      But you're right, a sub to this is much more than just "office."

      • I have OneDrive automatically sync with my camera roll on my Galaxy S9+. I'd be willing to bet it supports Pixel, too.

      • If you do want to take a look at the "seamless" picture backup, OneDrive offers Camera Upload: https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/automatically-save-photos-and-videos-from-onedrive-on-android-66605e54-48b8-4f55-bcff-34159702e344

        Microsoft OneDrive on Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.skydrive&hl=en_US

        Now, the big drawback for Pixel users is Google Photos offers truly unlimited photo storage... which (imo) beats mixed availability 1 TB bucket through OneDrive.

• If you agree to annual auto-renew w/Microsoft you get 1 mo free when registering the product. So essentially 13 mo for ~$105 (w/tax), and then $50 coming back as a physical Amazon GC.

• This was odd - it split the charge between the two items - $50 on the GC and 49.99 on the software.