Office 365 streams and updates in the background automatically, meaning that updates rollout to people automatically, including any new versions. In comparison, the ‘about’ screenshot on an Office 365 installation is slightly different, nowhere does it say Office 2013. See and read below carefully my ‘about’ screenshot.

As for what it is? Well essentially at the moment, it’s Office 2013 (but it’s not called Office 2013).Īs an option, I don’t have to install Office 365, I can can still install Office 2013 only. So to simplify things, it’s all one single product called Office 365. See below, when I try to install Lync from the Microsoft Online Portal by itself, it clearly states that “ Lync 2013 is included in the latest version of Office” You can’t even install Lync or any other individual Office 365 component by itself. This includes all Office components including Lync. In saying this, the new product is called ‘Office 365’. Not too long ago Steve Ballmer the CEO announced that Microsoft would now be known as a devices and services company, here’s a link in case you didn’t see it Having two Office installations would be be confusing to the user and be very messy. As a result, when Office 365 is streamed to the computer, previous versions of Office are left installed, so you would effectively have two Office installations. With Office 365, it’s more like a stream rather than an install. Historically Office installations have been different where as they install fully inside of Windows. Companies moving to Office 365 will come across a hurdle.

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