You can also purchase perpetual licenses for Commercial Use Rights for Office Home & Student 2013 RT on a per-device basis through the Microsoft Open License or Microsoft Select Plus programs. You do not need active Software Assurance for Office to receive this benefit. The primary user of a device licensed for Office for Mac Standard 2011 also has Commercial Use Rights for Office Home & Student 2013 RT. "If you are the primary user of a device licensed with Office Professional Plus 2013 or Office Standard 2013, then you can use Office Home & Student 2013 RT for commercial use. Here's how Microsoft's brief describes it (page 2): The one exception seems to be in cases where Office Professional Plus 2013 or Office Standard 2013 is hosted in a datacenter. This same concept applies when an organization is licensed to use Office for Mac Standard 2011. If a worker is licensed to use Office Professional Plus 2013 or Office Standard 2013, then he or she can use Office Home and Student 2013 RT for work purposes.
Microsoft clarifies this latter point in its brief. Organizations can purchase either a "standalone commercial license," an "Office user subscription license," or "any Office volume licensing SKU" will allow its use, according to a Microsoft blog post. The October PUR indicated three ways in which Office Home and Student RT can be used at a business.
However, that Office RT suite isn't licensed for commercial use, meaning that you aren't permitted to type that memo for work on it. Microsoft bundles Office and Student RT with Windows RT devices, including its Surface RT tablet. In particular, the brief spells out how organizations can use Office Home and Student RT in a commercial setting, as well as Windows To Go.
It's perhaps a bit more clear (although less definitive) to read this brief than to sift through the 123-page October PUR document - especially if organizations want to figure out what they can do given the new Office licensing. The nine-page document can be downloaded here. Microsoft published a volume licensing "brief" this month that shines a little more light on the product use rights (PUR) of Office 2013. News Microsoft Clarifies Office 2013 Product Use Rights
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