Microsoft isn't pulling the offer with immediate effect, though indeed, it will remain available for small tablets and ultra-affordable notebooks sold with Windows 8.1, but all those with Windows 10 pre-installed will no longer come with a free year of Office 365. As it released free Office apps on other platforms, the company needed some form of equivalent offering for its Windows customers.
Indeed, this makes perfect sense when you think about it - the only reason that Microsoft introduced the offer was to make up for the fact that its next-gen Office touch apps remained far from ready. Based on official info and a bit of input from our sources, we're here to clear things up.Ī source contacted me earlier this week to point out that Microsoft is phasing out the Office 365 offer across all devices with Windows 10 except its own Surface 3. I've been asked a few times recently how the launch of these Windows Store apps will affect Microsoft's free Office 365 offer on new devices.
But alongside the launch of its new OS, Microsoft has released its new Office Universal apps, which are free to use on these smaller devices. This subscription allowed users to install the full Office 2013 desktop applications on their devices, and also included 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage, as part of the 365 package. In the absence of its long-awaited touch-friendly Office apps for Windows, Microsoft also allowed manufacturers to bundle a free one-year Office 365 Personal subscription, worth $69.99, with these devices. Last year, Microsoft attracted dozens of new manufacturers to its Windows ecosystem, enticing them with free OS licensing for phones, small tablets and low-cost notebooks.
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