Drop Microsoft 365 and buy Office for your Mac outright for $99.97

Macworld TL;DR: Own Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneNote on your Mac with a lifetime license for $99.97 (MSRP $219). A Microsoft 365 subscription bills you every year for as long as you use it, and the total climbs well past the cost of the apps themselves. Purchasing Office outright ends that cycle, and a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Home & Business 2021 for Mac is on sale for $99.97 (MSRP $219). Your one-time payment gets you Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams Basic, and OneNote, installed as full 2021 versions. Because this license is linked to your Microsoft account rather than a single machine, you retain access even when you switch to a new computer, though the code installs on one Mac. Updates are included, and the apps run on the three most recent versions of macOS: Sonoma, Sequoia, and Tahoe. Be sure to redeem your code within 7 days of purchase. Also, note that this version runs natively and won’t work thro