- #Reviews of microsoft office 2019 update#
- #Reviews of microsoft office 2019 upgrade#
- #Reviews of microsoft office 2019 windows 10#
Microsoft are also clearly attempting to make us all refer to our Office programs as “Apps” suggesting: “…Office that includes apps (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and Skype for Business)“.
#Reviews of microsoft office 2019 upgrade#
It seems likely that users may well be more inclined to increasingly make do with what they have unless they can get the newer versions – especially as there is rarely a need to upgrade to the latest version of Office as there was in the early days. However, we wouldn’t be surprised if some further adjustments are made to the suggested support periods, especially with the proposed reduction of Office 2019’s support lifecycle.
#Reviews of microsoft office 2019 windows 10#
It seems a shame that this news wasn’t available all the time that Microsoft were offering free upgrades to its Windows 10 operating system, otherwise organisations and individuals may have decided to take up the offer as part of their plans, rather than to defer. It therefore seems clear that the supported option will require users to be using and updating Windows 10. Those businesses and users on Office 365 will therefore have another deadline to ensure their workstations are updated or replaced during the next couple of years if they want to maintain the most recent versions (one of the key reasons users are moving to the Office 365 model). Office 365 ProPlus is the SAC version of Office that comes with most Office 365 subscriptions. Other changes include Office 365 ProPlus no longer being supported on Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Server 2016 and any Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release (versions every 2-3 years) from January 14, 2020. The policy for Office 2016 in comparison, is 10 years in total, also ending in 2025. Microsoft suggest that Office 2019 will only come with 5 years mainstream and “approximately” 2 years extended support, ending in 2025, therefore indicating a shift to shorter support policies. Office 2019 will also only be available via ‘Click-to-Run’ installations – the mechanism used by Office 365 installations – and an MSI will not be available for deployment (used by network managers to rollout software centrally). It is an interesting move, considering that Windows 8.1 still has extended support until 2023 and Windows 7 SP1 until 2020.
If you want to know your version, type winver into your Windows 10 search box or a Command Prompt. Its successor will be built in March 2018, hence named 1803. The current version of Windows 10 on SAC is 1709 because it was built in September 2017.
#Reviews of microsoft office 2019 update#
UPDATE (as of 6th September 2018): In a change of policy by Microsoft, Windows 8.1 (and Windows 7 for organisations who purchase Extended Support Updates), will now be able to support Office 365 Pro Plus until January 2023.