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With Office 2013, the retail editions are for one PC, no exceptions. In some editions of previous Office releases, Microsoft included the right to install the software on two or three PCs. Multi-PC editions are no longer available.With a perpetual license, you pay once but have to pay all over again for new versions. The subscription version always entitles you to the most recent version. With an Office 365 Home Premium subscription, you get those programs and Outlook, Publisher, and Access. Office Home and Student, at a cost of $140 for a single license, gives you Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. You get much less software compared with the subscription editions.Here’s a list of the stark difference between perpetual-license editions of the Office 2013 and the equivalent products sold through subscription: That’s more true than ever with Office 2013. In either case, you have to go to /setup, where you’ll see this prompt: If you buy a boxed copy of Office 2013 from a retailer, you get a product key on a card. If you purchase a single-user copy of Office 2013 from an online reseller (including the Microsoft Store) you get a product key code. You can’t even download offline installer files for the three retail editions of Office: Home and Student, Home and Business, and Professional. You can no longer buy Office, Microsoft’s flagship product, on removable media. The subscription-based offerings of Office 365 are just a hint of what’s to come. Azure is moving entire server farms into the cloud. Office 365 services are fundamental to Office 2013. Microsoft has thrown massive amounts of resources at the task of integrating cloud-based services into its flagship products. “Services are the cornerstone of Microsoft’s strategy,” I noted at the time. Microsoft is in the process of a dramatic transition in its core business, one that I first noted last summer. Microsoft's radical new business plan is hidden in plain sight.Can Office 365 convince you that renting software is a good deal?.