Free Office Products, sort of

The headline caught my eye, as it is meant to do, however, it was a useful article. If you don’t want to spend the money for a yearly subscription to Office, and I don’t blame you, but you still want to use Word, which came free with your Windows computer back in the day, then there might be a work around.
Read the article HERE. 

While few of us are Teachers or Students at this point, with the necessary school ID, you are apparently allowed to use many Office products in a browser. Since we are usually connected to the internet anyway, that seems a useful solution. I recommend Google Docs or Sheets to folks needing a word processor or spreadsheet program for free. It seems that the same type of solution is free from Microsoft. You need a free MS userid to start, but that’s simple enough. If you don’t have one, create it. If you are a Skype user, then you can use that sign in, since Microsoft owns Skype. Once you have a MS account, you can use it to log into Office 365, and use the available apps.
There are some limitations, but I doubt I would notice them as I am a pretty basic user.