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Because if you don't have proper licensing the business can be hit with very large fines. (Read tens of thousands of dollars per violation)<br />
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As far as to where or why Office 365 isn't for businesses is beyond me. It may very well be legal to use as a business. I don't know why they wouldn't want companies paying for dozens of subscriptions rather than upgrading single licenses every few years.
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Because if you don't have proper licensing the business can be hit with very large fines. (Read tens of thousands of dollars per violation)

As far as to where or why Office 365 isn't for businesses is beyond me. It may very well be legal to use as a business. I don't know why they wouldn't want companies paying for dozens of subscriptions rather than upgrading single licenses every few years.

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Yeah, people say that it's not for business but I can't find it on the Microsoft website to warn businesses not to use it. I look like a moron saying that but can't substantiate it
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Yeah, people say that it's not for business but I can't find it on the Microsoft website to warn businesses not to use it. I look like a moron saying that but can't substantiate it

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I know people say that office 365 home premium is for homes and up to 5 devices there. &nbsp;that's legal. &nbsp;supposedly, it's not for business use? &nbsp;but if you go to their home premium site, where does it say it's not for business? &nbsp;<br />
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it talks about it being best for families<br />
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<a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-premium/" rel="ugc">http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-premium/</a><br />
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but where's it say it isn't even allowed for bueinsses? &nbsp;likely in the eula. &nbsp;BUt I looked and didn't see it and if they are so good at hiding that fact, why do we have to play microsoft's police for them?
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I know people say that office 365 home premium is for homes and up to 5 devices there.  that's legal.  supposedly, it's not for business use?  but if you go to their home premium site, where does it say it's not for business?  

it talks about it being best for families

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-premium/

but where's it say it isn't even allowed for bueinsses?  likely in the eula.  BUt I looked and didn't see it and if they are so good at hiding that fact, why do we have to play microsoft's police for them?

Office 365 home premium - how do I tell businesses it's not for them?

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

Microsoft 365

Office Productivity refers both to the act of being productive and efficient in an office or professional environment, as well as the software applications used to "produce" information. This includes the development of professional skills, creating work processes, and almost any program used to create or modify a document, image, audio or video clip. However, business application suites such as Microsoft Office, which include word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs, are typically called productivity software, as contrasted with a "utility program," such as a file manager, which is used to organize files and folders on the computer. Many office- and business-oriented groups of programs are organized into suites.

Office Productivity

An office suite is a collection of bundled productivity software (a software suite) intended to be used by knowledge workers. The components are generally distributed together, have a consistent user interface and usually can interact with each other, sometimes in ways that the operating system would not normally allow. Most contain a word processor, a spreadsheet, an email client and presentation software; some might contain a database program. Several office suites have their own topics: Microsoft Office, Office 365, LibreOffice (also known as OpenOffice), Lotus IBM and Google Apps.