Office 2013 and Office 365: What's Big Freakin Difference?

There's no set date for the official release of Office 2013, however, Microsoft has been working behind the scenes on setting prices for the Office 2013 suites along with subscription prices for it's new web-based office, Office 365.  So, you're probably asking yourself, which is best for me when they are released?  Here's a break down.

Office 2013 Suites (single-user licence)

*Office Home and Student 2013 $139 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote)

*Office Home and Business 2013 $219 (adds Outlook)

*Office Professional $399 (adds Access and Publisher)

Office 365 (Single subscription for up to 5 users)

*Office 365 Home Premium $99/year w/20GB SkyDrive, 60min of Skype Calling per month on five computers with the ability to change out the devices at any time.

*Office 365 Small Business Premium $149/year...Lets each user install it on up to 5 different PCs or Macs, along with 25GB Outlook storage, an organization-wide 10GB cloud drive plus 500MB for each user, online meetings and even website hosting. 

Still planning to upgrade to Office 2010 or Office 2011 for Mac? Well, if you wait until October 19th, you qualify to a FREE upgrade to Office 2013 or one year of Office 365 FREE.

You can still download and preview the new Office 2013 and give it a test run!

So, will you take advantage of the new subscriptions offer by Microsoft, or stick with the regular single user suite?  Student discount, anyone? 

Sources: Microsoft Office Blog