Microsoft Office, or Microsoft 365, is a premium application suite that you need to pay for to get full access to. That is, unless you use the web apps, or the free trials, or you're a student ...

If a new report from Beebom is accurate, this new version of Office basically takes many of the basic features Microsoft has included in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and makes them available for free.

Microsoft has started testing free versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows. The test Office apps have started appearing in select countries.