TL;DR: Free productivity apps are fine—until they aren’t. Get a lifetime of Microsoft Office’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ...

Microsoft now lets you use the basic Microsoft Office suite on your desktop PC without a subscription. You previously needed ...

If you’ve messed around with Microsoft’s “free” Office web app, you’ve quickly discovered that it stinks, for one important reason: You can’t actually ...

Microsoft Word is actually part of the company’s wider Office app suite. Now known simply as Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office), Microsoft’s enterprise software is available in a number of ...

TL;DR: Get a Microsoft Office Lifetime License on sale for $35 today. Microsoft 365 is no longer the only way to get access ...

You can now access a version of Microsoft’s Office package without a subscription…but there are a few caveats. This new version of the desktop app is ad-supported ...

Microsoft has quietly released a free, ad-supported version of Office (rebranded as Microsoft 365). The free version includes ads and restrictions like saving files only to OneDrive but still allows ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. But what if you don’t want to pay for Office at all? What if you only use it sporadically, or can’t afford a subscription? There are a couple of legit ...

Microsoft Word users with new laptops can consider Microsoft 365, a paid subscription service offering access to various Microsoft applications and cloud storage. Free alternatives like Google Docs, ...

Google has shown the way: You can offer typical Office programs such as word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation programs online. Free of charge and with a range of functions that is completely ...

You can get the Office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for free on the iPhone and iPad, but if you have an iPad Pro you miss out on the free functionality and have to subscribe to Office 365.