Microsoft team had Announced today : 22nd September 2014, that Every eligible student ( above 13 years of age) can get the Office 365 ( Latest version of Word,Excel,Powerpoint and publisher ) for FREE. While, earlier they had this same service to the organizations that have purchased the bulk licences for the desktops and laptops, where students need to sign up with the college/university and wait for the licence to arrive, this time the Microsoft team announced that there is no need to ask the organization as if they have enabled a feature of getting subscription right away by following the simple steps for sign up as explained in the following video. Starting this December, Faculty also gets a copy of Microsoft 365.
The Subscription includes the following Benifits:
- The latest versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access and Publisher
- Installation on up to five PCs or Macs, and Office apps on other mobile devices including Windows tablets and iPad
- 1 Terabyte of OneDrive cloud storage
- Office Online
Office 365 covers the September 22nd announcement that all eligible students can get Office free. In this show hosts Jeremy Chapman and Frank Chiappone explain how to tell if you're among the millions of qualifying students, the new simple process to get an Office 365 account and what you can do with Office 365 ProPlus once you've got it installed. They also look at Office Mix, OneNote tools for teachers and take Napoleon's March into the 21st century with powerful PowerMap analytics in Excel.
Note: Currently this feature is available in US and will spread across the world by the end of the year as said in the Official blog post of Mircrosoft.
>Microsoft Office Blog Post
