The new MS Office 2013 is being released today. Nothing too exciting (it's just Office after all), but there is a cool new purchase option. It's called Office 365 Home Premium. You don't buy Office, you subscribe to it monthly or yearly. The regular disk based Office 2013 is $139, Office 365 is $10/month or $99/year.

Benefits:
- you get the Pro suite of Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, One Note, Outlook, Publisher and Access) - the disc based version of this is actually over $500
- it's always being updated. It's not called Office 2013 because this subscription version is going to be updated with new features constantly. Unlike getting the disc based version every 3 years.
- you get an extra 20GB of online storage space added to your SkyDrive account
- you get 60 minutes of Skype calls per month to make calls to land lines or cell phones

Now the biggest benefit of them all
You can install Office 365 on 5 computers (PC or Mac)!!

Be warned now - this is how things are going to be in the future. I think Office 2013 will probably be the last disc based version of Office you see.

If you don't use Office very much or only plan on using it one computer then you'll probably be happy with the version you are using now. If you are constant user of Office and have a few computers in you home you install Office on then Office 365 is a great deal.