Microsoft 365 is my favorite Microsoft product

While Windows is arguably Microsoft's premier product for consumers in terms of marketing and general market awareness, it's not my favorite Microsoft product. That title goes to

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), the company's cloud-powered subscription service that grants you access to Office apps and lots more for a recurring cost. I've been a

Microsoft 365 Family subscriber for a few years and this is probably the only Microsoft product that I have had absolutely no regrets purchasing so far. There are multiple reasons

for this and I'll walk through some of those in this piece today so readers who are on the fence have an easier time reaching a decision about whether Microsoft 365 is worth their

money or not. For starters, Microsoft 365 gives you the latest version of Office apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, and more at all times. You don't need to worry about

updates at all, they are handled directly by the Redmond tech giant and the update process is seamless too. This is in stark contrast to one-time Office purchases like Office 2021

where you only receive the version you paid for along with some security updates, but no feature updates. Speaking of feature updates, these are regularly rolled out to Microsoft

365. If you actively read Neowin, you've probably seen our monthly round-up articles of the latest capabilities added to Office apps. Some of the new functionalities are really

useful to me and I believe there is almost always something of interest for someone considering that updates are bountiful. It even includes cloud-powered capabilities that are not

present in offline or LTSC versions of Office. It's also worth mentioning that I'm yet to experience major bugs in Office apps. This is relative with respect to other Microsoft

software that I use such as Windows, Edge, Teams, Power BI Desktop, Visual Studio etc. I'm not saying that these software are bug-ridden, nor am I saying that Office apps are

completely bug-free. What I'm emphasizing is that the occurrence of bugs is rarer for me in Office apps when compared to Microsoft's other software, which results in a better

experience overall. Another benefit I love with my Microsoft 365 subscription is the bundling of OneDrive cloud storage. If you purchase a Family plan, you can share your

subscription among six people and each of them gets 1TB of OneDrive storage. For me, this is a sizeable amount of storage and it means that I can save all of my important files

such as photos, videos, documents, and more to the cloud without a second thought. I'm nowhere close to worrying about running out of storage use even though I use it comfortably.