Office 365 Home Premium vs. Office 2013 – Rent, Buy or Walk Away?

In the recent past, people had two choices for acquiring Microsoft’s Office productivity suite – buy or pirate. Then along came Open Office/Libre Office, Google Apps, and other free applications, transforming the decision to buy, pirate, or skip altogether. Microsoft may not have to worry about losing its core business and educational customers, but Office’s future in the home market was starting to look a little iffy.

As typical for Microsoft, its largest competitor was often itself...