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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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by crafoo on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:42AM (10 children)
Adding 5 more clicks to save a file in MS Office 2017 was the only "feature" I really noticed with that release. I can't imagine how they could make it much worse, but that's probably just my lack of imagination.
It wouldn't be so bad if Linux hadn't taken such a turn for the worse. All the new window managers are shit. Network Manager is trash. Pulse Audio is trash. sysD just flushed what I knew about linux admin down the toilet and I really don't care to relearn a buggy, half-baked init system that seems to be co-opting and running every other sub-system into the ground. Linux has made GhostBSD look good, and that's quite a feat.
Guess I'm buying a mac eventually?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:01AM (1 child)
Don't let them break you, crapfoo, if that is your real name! Going Mac is going to the dark side! If you don't like current linux, change it? Create your own distro! Code some shit! This is something you will not have the opportunity to do with any of the proprietary Slaver Corps. Free software, as in free, and in you can free your mind! Don't buy a Mac! It is suicide! Or at least like getting cancer and then trying a bunch of therapies that Trump's "right to try" would let you try, but you would end up dead eventually anyway, if you go Mac.
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:23AM
trying a bunch of the rabies that Trump's "right to try"
FTFY
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:08AM
Come to Devuan, we haven't lost our spine yet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:25AM (2 children)
I really don't care to relearn a buggy, half-baked init system
Linux is like duck tape: it has a sticky side and a bright shine side. [without-systemd.org]
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(Score: 4, Touché) by maxwell demon on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:50AM
No. Rather it's like penguin tape.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @02:29PM
I'm a fan of subsentient's (haven't seen him lately but he used to post here) epoch init myself. S6 is very fast and unixy too.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:39AM
Do you think Apple will love you any more than Microsoft did?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by turgid on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:07PM (1 child)
Slackware plus WindowMaker FTW.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:18PM
WindowMaker doesn't really suit *my* needs, but Mate works well. So did lxde, and a couple of others the last time I used them. KDE has gotten too noisy. I want my window manager to be unobtrusive, but easily available. I really liked the KDE3 desktop, but the respin didn't work well with lots of the current software.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:31PM
Devuan? Slackware? Gentoo? Artix? Void? Maybe even a BSD rather than Linux? There's options, don't despair.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...