#Microsoft home use program download software#
With its new strategy, Microsoft will hope to convince its users of the worth of new software every year, and suggest that a recurrent annual sum is better than a single-pay option. Many users are used to purchasing licensed software once and then using the same for a large number of years in future, eating into the potential money that the company could have earned. In recent times, Microsoft has made a clear shift to open-sourcing most of their technologies - a move by chief executive Satya Nadella that has paid dividends and helped the company recently scale the trillion-dollar valuation.Īlongside this, Microsoft has also been trying to push its users towards a monthly or annual subscription-based revenue scheme, in order to maintain a consistent revenue stream that might eventually yield higher profits in the long run, than perpetual licence copies. Typically, the Microsoft Office HUP offers a 30 percent discount to employees of organisations that have signed up for the programme with Microsoft. Going forward, these users will only get access to an annual subscription package, which costs $48.99 per year (~Rs 3,500) for Office 365 Personal and $69.99 per year (Rs 5,000) for Office 365 Home & Business. The programme, which is targeted at a select group of corporate clients that offer privilege discounts to their employees for purchasing the same Microsoft software at home, so far allowed these users to pay a discounted one-time fee to gain access to a latest Microsoft Office copy, which has typically been offered in two variants - Personal and Home & Business.
Earlier today, the software giant announced that it will be discontinuing the perpetual licence copies of Microsoft Office for its Home Use Program (HUP) users, and instead offer a monthly subscription. Microsoft is gradually pushing its services towards a subscription-based model, in hope that its customers will soon get accustomed to a monthly renewal format, rather than perpetual licenses.