Good so far - easy to download and no problems

I've been comparing various services like dropbox and carbonite for some time to make it easier to access my documents from both home and work. I've also been looking at Office 365 because I've been using Office since it was first released and have upgraded each time a new version was released. I was hesitant to upgrade this time both because of the negative reviews that I've seen and because I really liked Office 2010 and was afraid that I'd lose the features that I rely on on a daily basis.

Because we have a number of devices that run Office and my need for access to documents from various locations and devices, I decided to try Office 365. Download was very fast on the three devices that I've set up so far. I did have a problem with one of the devices but it was my own error because I was logged into the wrong MS account so it didn't recognize that I had already purchased Office 365 and instead of downloading, took me to the store to buy again. Because the accounts are similar in name it took me a few minutes to realize what was going on. Again - my error, not Microsoft's. Once I changed ID download was as easy on that device as the other two (Two HP laptops and an Lenovo ideapad, all running Win8). If a document is updated on one device then opened on another, the changes are highlighted in green to make it easy to see what was changed.

The fact that Office 365 also offers Access was a major selling point for me as the other Office 2013 packages don't include Access or offer it for one PC per license and it's a product that I use frequently for work.

So far, I've pulled up existing documents (created in Office 2010 and 2003) in Word, Excel, and Access as well as creating new documents in each application. There are differences in the ribbon between 2010 and 2013 and, like Win8, the appearance is very flat but overall I like what I've seen. It's very easy to bring resources from various sources, both online and local, together into a single document.

I'm a little leery of the subscription model and wish that there was some guarantee that the price would not increase each year - or would at least include a cap on possible increases - but for now it gives me the software I need over multiple devices, 20G Skydrive storage, MS Access, and very easy access to documents from different devices in different locations.