But not anymore, because this week Microsoft announced Office 365 Home Premium, a cloud-based rental version of their dominant Office suite.
The company noted that Office 365 Home Premium is being offered in 162 markets in 21 languages.
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Office 365 Home Premium is a cloud service designed for busy households and people juggling ever-increasing work and family responsibilities.
Office 365 Home Premium is designed to help people be more productive from virtually anywhere and find the flexibility to do the things they want.
"Today's launch of Office 365 Home Premium marks the next big step in Microsoft's transformation to a devices and services business, " said Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft.
The basic, Office 365 Home Premium subscription package also comes with PowerPoint for presentations, OneNote for note-taking, Outlook for e-mail, Publisher for desktop publishing and Access for databases.
Like the Home Premium version of Office 365, a user can install the software on up to five devices, though IT controls are of course more of selling point here than they are on the consumer version.
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As she noshes on almonds in her office, she compares superfoods to premium gas for a car.
Sure enough, today's the 27th, and Microsoft's issued a press release explaining the pricing for Office 365 ProPlus, Midsize Business and Small Business Premium.
The Congressional Budget Office did the most to promote the idea that that premium support would shift costs to beneficiaries.
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Though the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects a 13 percent increase in premium costs by 2016, subsidies provided under the PPACA will cut those costs by half.
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Now the family is transforming the land surrounding the malls into high-tech office centers and fancy condominiums, the hope being that people will pay a premium to work and live near an SM mall.
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