The cheapest boxed version of the Microsoft Office 2019 suite costs €149 in the Microsoft Store. Still, there is a 100% free and legal way to get all the apps in the suite on your Windows 10 computer. Microsoft has indeed followed Google’s lead by launching a free version of its suite in the cloud. The difference from Google Docs is that Microsoft’s web apps take over almost all the functionality of “real” Windows apps.
So, if you have access to the internet, a Microsoft account and a Windows 10 PC, thanks to a trick, you can get the same result as if you bought the package, but without paying anything. All this thanks to magic progressive web applications.
How to Install Free Microsoft Office on Windows 10
Here’s how:
- Open www.office.com in the browser corner
- After connecting with your Microsoft account, open Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook or any other application of the suite
- open menu More of the browser
- click Install this site as an app
- Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 for each application
As with Google Docs, you get OneDrive online storage for your documents. The free version of Office 365 offers 5 GB, which is enough to store many documents in the immediate package. In any case, remember that you can always save your files to the hard disk. Even export documents in other formats, including PDF and open equivalents of Office files.
Finally, remember that The full version of Office 365 also available. Unlike Web Apps, you don’t have to be connected to take advantage of it, and the package gives you access to 1TB of space per person on OneDrive, among other things. You can subscribe at the link below:
