A subscription also includes 1 TB of online storage per user for just $99.99 (USD) per year, paid annually. Self-employed users may wish to consider Microsoft's Office 365 Home option, which provides a household with rights to install the full Microsoft Office 2011 suite on up to five Macs (running OS X 10.6 or higher), five iPads, and five smartphones. Thankfully, Microsoft's numerous Office 365 subscription plans are also available for Mac organizations. Office for Mac 2011 for Enterprise, meanwhile, the volume licensing method Microsoft recommends larger Mac organizations leverage, tends to be adopted by larger firms possessing in-house IT pros familiar with Microsoft's open licensing programs. When you do track down an installation DVD and valid license key, most new Mac models (iMacs and MacBook Airs) don't even include the required native optical drive.
Office 365 is catching all the attention among Windows offices, but what should Mac firms do? Retail boxes are becoming harder to find. How Mac offices should buy copies is a fair question. Small and medium businesses, however, often struggle with the best method of licensing Microsoft productivity software. Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint popularity remains impressive, even within Mac offices.
