Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business | Windows

Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business for Windows

Home & Business is the Office edition for the self-employed, freelancers, trade businesses and small companies. It contains all programs of Office Home 2024 plus Outlook for e-mail, calendar and contacts. The decisive difference for businesses: this edition is expressly licensed for commercial use.

You buy Office once and use it permanently. There is no subscription, no renewal and no monthly debit. This makes Home & Business the most straightforward solution for many small businesses.

These programs are included

• Word 2024 – quotes, contracts, invoice templates and business letters
• Excel 2024 – calculations, price lists, analyses and charts
• PowerPoint 2024 – presentations for customers, trade fairs and meetings
• Outlook 2024 – e-mail, calendar, contacts and tasks, also with Exchange and Microsoft 365
• OneNote – notes, meeting minutes and collections of ideas

What is new in Office 2024?

• Excel: dynamic charts that automatically adapt to array formulas, new text functions such as TEXTSPLIT, TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER, and the IMAGE function for inserting pictures directly into cells
• PowerPoint: Cameo embeds your live camera feed in the slide, and the Recording Studio makes video presentations with subtitles easier
• all programs: support for OpenDocument format 1.4, a revised accessibility checker and a design in the style of Windows 11

Search and the calendar view have also been revised in Outlook 2024; for example, shared calendars can be displayed side by side more clearly.

Who is Home & Business for?

• Self-employed people and freelancers who use Office for work and manage their e-mails in Outlook
• small businesses and practices that want to equip individual workstations permanently
• home users who need Outlook as well as Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Office 2024 or Microsoft 365?

With Microsoft 365 you pay year after year and receive new features and cloud storage in return. You buy Office 2024 Home & Business once. The programs stay at their 2024 feature level and receive security updates. Calculated over several years, the perpetual licence is usually much cheaper. If you want to manage many workstations centrally, you will find further editions in the category Microsoft Office 2024.

Home & Business compared

System requirements

• Operating system: Windows 11 or Windows 10 – for a new computer, Windows 11 Pro is a good match
• Processor: 1.1 GHz or faster, at least 2 cores
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Hard disk: 4 GB of free space
• Display: resolution of 1280 × 768 or higher (use the 64-bit version for 4K)
• Graphics: DirectX 9.1 or later with WDDM 1.3 driver for hardware acceleration
• Internet: required for download, activation and updates
• Other: some features require .NET 3.5 or 4.6 or later

Installation and activation

1. Have the product key and download link from our e-mail ready.
2. Download Office using the download link and start the setup. Uninstall older Office versions and trial versions beforehand.
3. Open an Office program, for example Word, and enter the product key when prompted.
4. Done: the licence is permanently activated, without a Microsoft account. Step-by-step instructions are included with the delivery.

Frequently asked questions about Office 2024 Home & Business

Do I need a Microsoft account?

No. You activate this edition directly with the product key; a Microsoft account is not required. If you prefer to link the licence to your Microsoft account, choose the “account-bound” edition.

May I use Office Home & Business in my company?

Yes. This edition is licensed for commercial use, including for the self-employed and freelancers.

Is this a subscription?

No, it is a perpetual licence. You pay once and use Office without any time limit.

How many devices does the licence cover?

One Windows PC. You need a separate licence for each additional workstation.

Does Outlook work with my existing mailbox?

Yes. Outlook 2024 works with Exchange, Microsoft 365, Gmail as well as IMAP and POP3 mailboxes.

Will I receive an invoice with my company address?

Yes. Simply enter your company address when ordering; you will receive the invoice with the delivery. Companies, associations and public authorities can also buy on account.

Delivery, invoice and support

• Delivery by e-mail: you will usually receive the product key, download link and installation guide within 5 to 30 minutes of payment (daily 09:00–21:00 CET). More under Shipping & payment.
• Invoice: every order comes with a proper invoice, with your company address on request.
• Origin of the licence: we source our licences from distributors and wholesalers in Europe. We explain exactly how this works on the page Buying legal software.
• Support: if you have questions about installation or activation, we help by e-mail (Mon–Sun 09:00–21:00 CET), phone (Mon–Fri 09:00–14:00 CET), live chat or remote support with TeamViewer.

Our goodwill promise

Should the ordered Office version ever no longer be available, we will supply the next higher version at no extra charge. You never pay more than the price at which you ordered.