Three years ago, for example, Microsoft customers who bought the then-current Office 2010 for Windows were promised either a free copy of the impending Office 2013 - which shipped in January 2013 - or a one-year subscription to Office 365 Home Premium, a since-renamed plan that provided rights to install the application suite on up to five PCs or Macs. This cycle's promotion is a more miserly deal than Microsoft has offered before. Office 365 Personal does not include rights to use the Office 2016 applications for commercial - read, business - work. Office 365 Personal is a consumer-grade plan that lets the subscriber install one copy of Office 2016 on a Windows device or Mac.
