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Microsoft Removes Device Install Limits For Office 365 Subscribers (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the removing-the-shackles dept.

Starting October 2nd, Office 365 Home users will no longer be restricted to 10 devices across five users and Personal subscribers will no longer have a limit of one computer and one tablet. The catch is that you can only stay signed in on five devices at once. Engadget reports: Meanwhile, Home users can let another person use the productivity suite through their account, with Microsoft bumping up the number of licenses per subscriber from five to six. Each user has access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, along with 1TB of individual storage. Microsoft is also integrating Home subscriptions with its family service, so you can automatically share your Office 365 plan with people you've set up as family members. Elsewhere, you'll manage your subscription from within your Microsoft account settings from now on.

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  1. It's called bait and switch by Puls4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're just trying to move people off legacy office. 5 years from now this will go away and it'll be one license one user.

  2. OK, here's the deal... by GerryGilmore · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ....any idiot still using Microsoft software absolutely deserves all of these levels of bullshit - and more on the way! - that you are dealing with. FFS, why would any person, much less organization submit to this?!? Is Outlook THAT fucking awesome that you'll give up your IT life/control? Is there any aspect of AD that justifies ridiculous reboots in mid-presentation/whatever-I'm-running-at-the-time?

    Christ on a candle! What does it take for you to at least START breaking your chains of slavery?!?!