Office 365 is Microsoft's licensing of its Office products (including Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point, and more) for $99 per year. That fee though entitles you to have these Office products installed on 5 different computers, and unlike a bundled Office product, you can activate or de-activate licensed computers. Beyond the price (which works out to be $20 per computer per year), there are some compelling reasons to consider this offering, including:
1. Outlook is a terrific email, calendar, address book program. While there is a bit of a learning curve to set up the options you want, it is amazingly customizable, and integrates seamlessly with your ISP's email server (so now you can see spam filtered out by your ISP and you can block senders without the limitations imposed by your ISP). Just by way of example, it will let you designate that an email you compose be held and not sent until a data/time of your choosing; it's auto-complete addressing is much more adaptable than even Gmail's as is its Folder organization; you can add or remove or change the weather bar in a zillion ways; and on, and on, and on. The only shortcoming is that it's not available on smart devices yet, so Gmail remains the best way to handle email on such devices.
2. With Word comes bundled One Drive which lets you set up a folder so that you can access your documents from any computer anywhere in the world.
3. Most amazing for a Microsoft product, you actually can reach free telephone support in a minute or so to trouble-shoot a problem.
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