Microsoft 365 vs Office 2024: Which Should You Buy?
Compare Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 by devices, apps, storage, updates, and renewal costs, with checks for regional licenses and your existing Office documents.
Read guide →Windows editions, licences and support dates
Some limits are set by edition and some by a date. Neither is on the product page: both come from the manufacturer’s terms and lifecycle documents, so check your own Windows version and how the licence was purchased before deciding.
Before choosing a task
- Check your Windows version with winver and look up when updates for it stop.
- Check feature by feature whether Home covers what you need or Pro is required.
- Put the cost and the deadline side by side for replacing, upgrading and extending.
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Windows 11 Home vs Pro: When Is the Upgrade Worth It?
Compare Windows 11 Home and Pro for Remote Desktop, encryption, Hyper-V, and organization management, with checks to decide whether you need a paid upgrade.
Read guide →Still on Windows 10: choosing between ESU, an in-place Windows 11 upgrade and a new PC, from two published dates
Windows 10 support ended on 14 October 2025 and consumer ESU ends on 12 October 2027. Here are the three paths with the conditions, costs and deadlines Microsoft publishes, plus what to check on a used machine.
Read guide →Before buying a used business PC: how to read Windows 11's supported-CPU lists, and what "activated" does not prove
There is only so much you can check on an ex-lease business PC before it arrives. This guide separates what Microsoft's supported-processor lists are actually for, what Windows activation does not guarantee, and whether TPM is absent or merely switched off.
Read guide →Can a Windows licence move to a new PC? The two acquisition routes section 4 of the licence terms separates
"OEM cannot be moved, retail can" — where in the text does that come from? This guide reads section 4 of the Windows 11 licence terms Microsoft publishes, in both the English and Japanese editions, and sets out what each route is permitted to do and what conditions are attached.
Read guide →Windows 11 stops updating by version: check yours with winver against the published end dates
Each Windows 11 version has its own end of updates, and Home and Pro get 24 months from the feature update. Check your version with winver, read the right edition column in Microsoft's table, and see why version 26H1 matters when buying a new PC.
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