Hey all,

Just wanted to first note, that I'm not very computer savvy so if you could speak in more layman's terms that would make more sense, I would appreciate it! This past summer, I purchased a brand new Windows HP laptop with Windows 11. With it, I also purchased Microsoft 365 - Family, but I have not added that yet. I just had questions regarding what kind of virus protection the laptop already comes with and what's still active after a period of time, etc.? It's kind of confusing to me.

I know originally my laptop showed me having a free limited trial of McAfee that automatically came with it for like 30 days I believe, but that time period has expired. Yet, when I go into my Windows Security app on my computer and click on the sidebar to "Virus and Threat Protection", it shows inside a box that McAfee is turned on like I still am being protected by it along with status updates of current threats being none, etc.? If you scroll down, towards the bottom it also shows Microsoft Defender Antivirus options and you can toggle a switch to it being on for allowing it to periodically scan for threats. In addition to this, it shows a status of no current threats under "Current threats" and being able to do a quick scan for threats and it shows updates that have been done. If I click "manage settings" under "Virus and threat protection settings" it shows as real time protection being toggled off. Now if you go back and then scroll back to the top and click manage providers under "Who is protecting me?", it shows under "Antivirus" that McAfee is turned on there. It also shows Microsoft Defender Antivirus but this one shows as being off. Also on a side note, this laptop currently is not signed into anything dealing with a Microsoft account. From my understanding on what I was told when I made the purchase, Microsoft Defender for virus protection is only available with a purchased subscription of Microsoft 365, correct? I didn't think it came automatically free on the laptop?

In other words, I'm just confused what virus protections I currently have, how this all works, what is what and what I necessarily need. If my free trial of McAfee showed to have expired and if I haven't set up Microsoft 365 for the Microsoft Defender capability yet, why is it making it look like these two are both active and protecting me? And why is Microsoft Defender showing as active but also inactive in other spots?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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My current Windows laptop is roughly 12 years old. It has Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 on it.

I went and purchased a new Windows laptop at Best Buy. I was asking about how Microsoft Office would work and when I told him how old my current laptop is, he recommended that I purchase Microsoft 365 because my current Office is outdated (I couldn't remember what version of Office I had when speaking with him.) I ended up purchasing the Microsoft 365.

Looking at my older laptop now and seeing that it has this Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 and that it has the latest version of 15.0.5571.1000 on it and seems to still be getting updates and works fine besides the age. I did a google search and saw an article stating that support for Office 2013 ended in April 2023 with no extensions or extended security updates further. But yet I still got this latest version updated it looks like in July 2023 so updates are still continuing fine?

So I'm just wondering, did I even need to purchase this Microsoft 365? Or would it have been fine just to move this over to my new laptop and save money? Because I'm currently paying nothing for this older version of Office and this new Microsoft 365 will be $99 every year to renew. We bought the Family one so my wife could also have it for her new Mac (her old Mac is 10 years old) but besides that....I'm wondering if I didn't even need it for myself? Basically looking for the pros/cons of keeping the old one vs. this upgraded one....but I'm not even sure if I could have transferred this Microsoft Office 2013 to my new laptop? If you do recommend that I should make the switch to this purchased Microsoft 365, what's the best way to dispose of this 2013 Office version on my older laptop?

Thanks!

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