So at some point in the future you may find that you need to buy a new version to replace the aging one that you have. Of course that is not going to include major updates. You can still do that from Microsoft but it's going to cost more. There's also the option to do a one time purchase. You can choose from a couple of different subscription plans from the Microsoft site and then in those apps you login to be able to access your account and then unlock the app. But, you're going to need a subscription to use them. They're all available to download for free. You can get Microsoft's apps from the Mac App Store. But they all do look and word differently. Keynote and Power Point are both presentation apps. Numbers and Excel are both spreadsheet apps. The alternative, of course, is to use Apple's apps Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. In particular apps like Word, Excel, and Power Point.

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