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Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10

posted by janrinok on Saturday February 03 2018, @03:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the 10-or-nothing dept.

Apparition writes:

Microsoft revealed today that Office 2019 will ship in the second half of 2018, and will run exclusively on Windows 10.

Microsoft's General Manager for Windows, Bernardo Caldas, and General Manager for Office, Jared Spataro announced changes to Office and Windows servicing and support today.

[...] Office 2019 applications will only be supported on a limited number of Windows client and server operating system versions. In particular, Office 2019 will only be supported on the following systems:

  • Any supported Windows 10 SAC (Semi-Annual Channel) release.
  • Windows 10 Enterprise Long Term Servicing Channel 2018.
  • The next Long Term Servicing Channel release of Windows Server.

Unless I'm misreading Microsoft's announcement, Office 2019 won't be available for Windows 8.1 or Windows 7, or older Server versions.

[...] The company plans to support Office 2019 for five years of mainstream support and about two years of extended support.

[...] Office 2019 support will end around the same time that Office 2016 ends. It is unclear why Microsoft made the decision; one explanation is that the company plans to move all-in in regards to Office 365 and Office in the cloud and that 2025 may be the year Microsoft might make that switch.

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:08AM (2 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:08AM (#632347) Journal

    The users should have dumped Microsoft decades ago. I really don't understand why they put up with M$ abuse.

    Oh, heck, let's Godwin this. The users are like Hitler's followers, in love with being harshly disciplined for their own and everyone's good, scared of those freedom loving, hippie Linux followers, still mentally stuck on decades old "you get what you pay for" economic dogma, befuddled by arguments that copying is stealing and software should be treated like a scarce, material good, just can't believe Linux is real and better quality, and still convinced M$ is strong enough to crush all competition.

    It's not hopeless. Many times M$ has gone too far and had to backpedal. I think M$ is in a long, slow decline, and the day will come when they can't maintain the illusion any longer.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by melikamp on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:58AM (1 child)

    by melikamp (1886) on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:58AM (#632365) Journal

    <Eddard Stark voice> The Micro$oft Linux is coming.