Microsoft Office Home and Student 2016 - Download - 1PC

Pros: It has some nice new features.

Cons: Several features that I took for granted, are GONE. The biggest 'show-stopper' for me is NO OFFLINE HELP. I do a lot of VBA development, in Office, and I often work in situations where I am on a closed network or offline. The removal of offline help, means I have to haul around a lot of external reference material to support my work.

Overall Review: I bought this down-grade with more faith than research. Now I regret it. As near as I can tell, Office 2010 was the latest version I could live with. Office 2016 is not bad. I have had no unexpected malfunctions. Just be warned -- if there are features you rely on, you can't safely assume they are still there.

Pros: This is a good product, but it is not a giant leap for mankind. Office 2016 is more advanced if you are upgrading from 2003-2007. If you have Office 2010 or 2013 then you are going to be a little disappointed. 2013 and 2016 are very similar with small tweaks. Unless you just want to upgrade for the sake of it from 2013 then by all means do so, but you can save the money by holding on to 2013. Purchased when it was on sale.

Cons: No big upgrade (1 egg).

Pros: Absolutely none

Cons: Much slower than previous versions Runs mandatory "upgrader" in background or you can't open files You must maintain a microsoft account which it connects to verify or gets disabled Can't be offline for extended time or it can't login to MS account and stops working "updated" menus and UI is clunky and annoying installs a msoffice printer app that hijacks ALL print jobs and had to be removed

Overall Review: Worse than a waste of money, I would pay to be able to go back and not have to experience it. Disappointing when a company takes something that was pretty good and ruins it.

Pros: The download was fairly quick on my broadband connection. Installation went cleanly as did registration on my Windows 7 machine.

Cons: I already had a satisfactory MS Office 2013, but without Publisher so I bought the whole 2016 Professional suite. One review complained about only online help. I find most MS help to be of little value. It seems better to do a web search and find a non-MS source. I'm just learning Publisher and so far find it frustrating, probably some tutorial time would help.

Overall Review: Perhaps there are ways to get Publisher in the unbundled fashion. That would have suited me better.

Pros: I had been searching for a reasonable price on this product for a while, even to the point of setting up to be notified if the price dropped on A competitor. Very pleased to get the great deal and the easy purchase process on NewEgg. The activation code came in an email almost immediately and the whole transaction went very well.

Cons: The only downsides to this product would be having to download the large file from Microsoft, rather than having a physical disk or thumb drive, and having to deal with Microsoft licensing site. Neither were big problems for me, but the download would be a problem for someone without broadband. Fortunately you could download it elsewhere onto a flash drive and then install it on your computer. The activation on Microsoft's site should not be an issue even on a slower connection. If you have to have every new "bell and whistle" that Microsoft adds to Office, then buying this perpetually licensed version isn't the cost effective route - buy Office 365 instead to be continuously updated to the "latest and greatest".

Overall Review: This product is the way to go if you want all of the features of Microsoft Office Professional, don't want to pay an annual license fee to Microsoft for Office365, and will be happy with the feature set of the 2016 version for more than 3-4 years. (No problem for me, I'm switching from Office 2007 so I got 10 years.)

Pros: Easy to install. Customized the way I want it in a flash! New versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and One Note. They made it easy to get to where you want and do what you want. Interface very clean and easy to understand

Cons: None as yet.

Overall Review: Wish that the Home and Business contained Publisher instead of Outlook...would have purchased that. Kept my 2010 versions of Outlook, InfoPath and Publisher intact. Two versions of office do it for me.

Pros: Office 2016 looks and feels like Windows 10. Has all the features I need. Performs well. User interface can be customized.

Cons: For my use it isn't really better than Office 2003. The command ribbon is cluttered to the point of being distracting, so I turned it off most places.

Overall Review: All in all, after a month I can do everything I want to do with Office 2016, but I still liked the Office 2003 user interface better.

Pros: It installs the programs.

Cons: It forces installation onto your OS drive. Microsoft support incorrectly advised me the first time that it was possible to do a custom install location. Wrong. Caused an unnecessary read/write on my OS SSD, and wasted over an hour as both the uninstall and reinstall hung. Poor options, implementation by Microsoft. They are quickly becoming Apple so I might as well buy one in the future.

Overall Review: Stick with 2013 or previous versions.