Microsoft Office 2024 Lifetime License for PC Is Now $70 Off

A rare price cut has made a permanent license for Microsoft Office 2024 cheaper. A lifetime Home and Business license for Mac or PC is $179.99, a $70 reduction from its usual price of $249.99. It’s a clear option for people who don’t want another monthly bill, as it lets you own the core Office apps outright and install them on your computer.

Key details of the current Office 2024 discount

This deal is for a one-time, single-user purchase of Office 2024 Home and Business with no annual fees. You receive activation for either a Mac or a Windows PC, and you can go offline without being held to a subscription. It works out to compelling math for many buyers — $69.99 annually for Microsoft 365 Personal and $99.99 a year for Family. From that perspective, a $179.99 one-time purchase can pay for itself in two to three years — and then keep paying dividends year after year while you’re using the device.

What you get in Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business

Office 2024 Home and Business includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. These are the old-school desktop applications that you can fully install and use on modern macOS and Windows machines without any hiccups. Microsoft’s documentation acknowledges that the perpetual Office line focuses on reliable, offline-first productivity instead of constantly changing cloud features.

New in this release, PowerPoint now offers presentation recording with voiceover and video support, including the ability to record and navigate slides directly within a deck without the need for outside tools. Outlook updates its accessibility and layout checks to help teams send more readable, navigable emails. Word improves its writing assistance, drilling down to better phrasing and tone recommendations, while Excel grows wiser about comparing data with faster calculations and more versatile dashboards and models.

Since it’s a lifetime license, you’ll never have to worry about not having the latest features or security.

If your team needs more than one app for creative work

When a single app won’t work, or when you need unlimited usage for just one Creative Cloud application, there are platforms that offer multiple apps at once. With Creative Cloud plans from Adobe, you can get every Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) tool and start using new CC tools immediately so your creativity knows no bounds.

You continue to get security and stability updates throughout the product’s support life, but you’re not buying into a continuous feature churn of a subscription.

How it compares with Microsoft 365 subscriptions overall

Microsoft 365 subscribers receive ongoing cloud features and security updates, plus other benefits including 1TB of OneDrive storage per user, Microsoft Family Safety sharing and more. They also get faster access to newer AI-driven features, like premium writing and presentation assistance or enterprise integrations. That cadence is why Microsoft can claim tens of millions of consumer subscribers and deep, wide enterprise adoption.

The catch: Subscriptions can never stop charging.

For a solo professional on Microsoft 365 Personal, three years amounts to about $210 at regular prices; a comparable family plan runs about $300 over that time. That contrasts with a $179.99 Office 2024 license that’s a one-off purchase for one device. If you’re not in need of multi-user cloud storage, workforce-focused workflows or continuous feature updates that are constantly adding new ways for your product to be obsolete, the one-time option can work out cheaper.

Compatibility and support across Windows and macOS systems

Office 2024 works with the current versions of Windows and macOS, while Microsoft’s policy has been to support the current and the two prior releases of macOS; it also supports Windows 10 and 11, according to the software support lifecycle. Similar to other long-term releases, it will enjoy the normal five years of mainstream support including security and reliability updates. The features don’t change by design, something many IT teams appreciate as they prefer predictability and compliance.

Keep in mind that a perpetual license will apply to a single computer. You can log in with a Microsoft account for settings synchronization and basic cloud connectivity, but large OneDrive storage allotments and some premium features are linked to Microsoft 365 subscriptions and aren’t part of the bundle here.

Who should consider this one-time Office license

Those with small businesses, freelancers — or anyone suffering from subscription creep from too many cloud apps and storage services — should benefit the most. Deloitte has documented growing subscription fatigue across digital services, and productivity software is an increasingly obvious line item to shrink. A consultant whose dependence on reliable Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook is confined to a single machine can hit break-even quickly as well as minimize surprises at renewal rates.

The never-upgrade model is also attractive in more security-conscious locales or IT environments with poor connectivity, where fixed feature sets and offline installation are network hiccups, not product flaws. (This is something Gartner has been noting for a while, specifically that some regulated industries keep perpetual licensing for just this kind of operational stability.)

Bottom line on the Office 2024 Home and Business deal

A lifetime Office 2024 Home and Business license for Mac or PC is a solid deal at this $70 discount, if you want the basics without a monthly fee.

If you’re comfortable not getting the full range of features offered by Microsoft 365, Office Home & Student 2019 can be a really good deal, too — the key here is to know what’s in the apps and decide whether or not you’ll use them.