Office 365 Home Premium subscribers double to 2 million in less than six months

Microsoft’s big bet on paid subscriptions for Office appears to be on the right track. While the company reported early signs of success with 1 million Office 365 Home Premium subscribers back in May, that number has now doubled to over 2 million. Subscribers pay $9.99 a month or $99.99 per year to download and install Office software on PCs and smartphones, alongside access to Microsoft's cloud services to store documents and settings.

Office 365 Home Premium sales are still a small percentage of the overall Office sales to enterprise customers and other businesses, but the transition to the cloud is going steady. It’s a key part of Microsoft’s new “devices and services” strategy to sell hardware to consumers and services on...

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