Microsoft's much-hyped free upgrade offer for Windows 10 ended in 2016, right? Not exactly. Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade In addition, Microsoft is going to provide five years of mainstream support and approximately two years of extended support so as to align with the extended-support end date for Office 2016 (which is Oct. Office 2016 will continue to work with Office 365 back-end services through October 2023 now. Microsoft recently relented on some of its previously stated support cut-off dates for Office on various variants of Windows. MORE FROM IGNITE: What's next for Teams | Microsoft staggers rollout of Surface Hub 2 | Microsoft to unify search across Windows 10, Office 365 and Bing with Microsoft Search | Microsoft readies previews of Azure Digital Twins, Azure Sphere secure-edge service (Before today, all we could get was a "maybe.") Microsoft isn't providing any timing guidelines as to when the successor to Office 2019 client and server will be available, but they are definitely on the roadmap, as a result of customer feedback.
Update (September 24): Microsoft officials also confirmed today that there will be another on-premises, perpetual version of both its Office clients and servers after Office 2019. Microsoft won't be providing a MSI option for Office 2019 clients, but will continue to do so for Office Server products. The Office 2019 client apps also will be released as Click-to-Run only.
Just a reminder: Office 2019 will only run on Windows 10, not Windows 7/8.1 and in the case of the server apps, Windows Server 2019. Microsoft plans to roll out the 2019 releases of its on-premises business servers, including Exchange Server 2019, Skype for Business Server 2019, SharePoint Server 2019 and Project Server 2019 "in the coming weeks."Īlso: Microsoft: 5 tips for developers to reduce malware TechRepublic And Project, Visio, Access and Publisher are available for Windows only.Īlso: Microsoft Surface: Rumored specs, features, leaks, price, release date CNET It will be available to other consumer and commercial customers in the next few weeks, officials said. Office 2019 is going out first to volume licensees, starting today. The Office 2019 release won't get feature updates it will get security updates and fixes only.With Office 2019, users will get Morph and Zoom for PowerPoint new data-analysis features for PowerPivot Learning Tools like Read Aloud and Text Spacing for Word and Outlook various security updates across the suite and more. The 2019 release adds some of the key Office features that Microsoft already has rolled out to its Office 365 subscribers over the past three years. Microsoft released a preview of these applications to commercial customers in April 2018.Īlso: Windows 10 how-to: Ed Bott's free tech support guideĪs Microsoft officials have said previously, the Office 2019 feature list is a subset of what Office 365 ProPlus subscribers get. It's the "perpetual," on-premises version of Microsoft's Office suite and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access and Publisher. Office 2019 is the successor to Office 2016.
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