
If you’re a home user, you can get Microsoft Office 2021 Home and Student (it doesn’t matter if you’re a student or not) – it costs about £120 inc VAT and will work on one PC forever.The version and features of the Office applications don’t change.

If you replace your PC before then, you can keep the software and use it on the new PC, but you can’t use it on two PCs at the same time. You shouldn’t use it after that – it’ll be dangerous. If you buy Office 2021, you get a licence to use the program on one PC forever – but receive only security updates until October 2026.


Which you do depends on who you are, and how many PCs you use. You can buy the current version of Microsoft Office is available in at least four different ways.
