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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when I told him how old my current laptop is, he recommended that I purchase Microsoft 365 because my current Office is outdated (I couldn't remember what version of Office I had when speaking with him.)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?

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Thanks. So you all are saying it's probably best to just move on from this Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 that my old laptop has and make the switch to this new Microsoft 365 Family package that I purchased for 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?

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The main thing is the security risk and chance it will not run much longer. That said I ran a copy of 2010 well past EOL until one of my key clearinghouses got a bunch of 2019 keys for cheap likely due to more supply then demand. Hey I'll take it. That said I know 2019 is probably nearing EOL too but for next to nothing I do not care, truly. I'll risk it in the future and archive installers. You're probably getting Extended Support updates at this point which your company paid for.

I wouldn't rely on 2013 much longer at this point. Use it until it dies due to SW compatibility issues sure but it's not going to go much longer when things change too much because it will not be fixed.

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Thanks. So you are saying it's probably best to just move on from this Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 that my old laptop has and make the switch to this new Microsoft 365 Family package that I purchased for 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?

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@bd3616 Look for a perpetual license, not O365. If you bought it, use it.

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@nick Sorry, can you explain further what you mean by that? Confused. Also, are you saying it's probably best to just move on from this Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 that my old laptop has and make the switch to this new Microsoft 365 Family package that I purchased for my new laptop rather than find a way to convert it over to my new laptop? If you do recommend I switch to Microsoft 365...what's the best way to dispose of this 2013 Office version on my older laptop? What's the typical thing that others do? Thanks for your help.

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Hi @bd3616 , Welcome to Meta!

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If you are looking for a non-petpetual MS Office License, I would recommend MS Office 2021 Home & Student. If you need the professional version, it's available here.

If you're just looking for a decent office suite, there's always Libreoffice (download links here or type sudo apt-get install libreoffice into any debian-based Linux distro).

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Thanks. So you are saying it's probably best to just move on from this Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 that my old laptop has and make the switch to this new Microsoft 365 Family package that I purchased for 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?

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@andrewsawesome just checking back, thanks!

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