Microsoft’s now steering eligible customers to consumer-grade Office 365 subscriptions under its Home Use Program benefit, and away from perpetual licenses of Office.

The company is moving away from perpetually-licensed Office 2019 and now offers annual subscriptions to Office 365 Personal and Office 365 Home for $69.99 and $48.99, respectively.

Microsoft hasn't yet launched its updated Home Use Program for Office in the U.S. But once it does, it will be offering qualified business customers 30 percent off on Office 365 Home/Personal ...

Microsoft has updated its Office Home Use Program by removing the previous benefit of steeply discounted copies of non-subscription Office for use at home by enterprise customers.

Microsoft has made some changes to its Home Use Program, which offers discounts on its products for Software Assurance customers. You can no longer get Office 2019, leaving only Office 365.

Microsoft drops the ability for eligible employees to pay once for Office 2019 and use it for as long as they like. Now a discounted Office 365 subscription is the only choice.

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Both Office Professional Plus 2019 and Office Home and Business 2019 have been removed as options for one-off licenses under the program.

Microsoft's equivalent of home base is the recently released Office 365 Home Premium, a subscription cloud service that allows anytime-anywhere access to your documents, across multiple devices.

The US software giant will no longer sell one-off licenses for Office 2019 as part of its Home Use Program (HUP) as it tries to encourage customers to opt for an annual subscription instead.

Office 2019 is available to purchase with a perpetual license (meaning you purchase it once, and it's yours forever), but Microsoft is removing this option from its Home Use Program (HUP).

Microsoft drops the ability for eligible employees to pay once for Office 2019 and use it for as long as they like. Now a discounted Office 365 subscription is the only choice.