Microsoft has offered a new update on its subscriber base for Office 365 Home, announcing that 4.4 million users have now signed up to access the software service.



From Neowin:

Today's new update, part of Microsoft's latest quarterly financial results, shows that the company's slow switch from using stand alone software for its Office products to a monthly or yearly subscription model seems to be working. Today's numbers compared well to the 3.5 million Office 365 Home subscribers that it announced just three months ago in January.

Today's announcement does not take into account any subscribers that might have signed up for the new Office 365 Personal, the cheaper version of Home that launched earlier in April. Personal has a price of $6.99 a month or $69.99 a year, for access to Office software on one PC and one tablet. Home charges $9.99 a month, or $99.99 for a year, for up to five PCs and up to five tablets. The numbers also don't likely reflect the full impact of the launch of Office for iPad, which happened just a few days before Microsoft's fiscal quarter ended.

  Microsoft: Office 365 Home now has 4.4 million subscribers