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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:01AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:01AM (#632384)

    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

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:23AM (#632418)

    trying a bunch of the rabies that Trump's "right to try"
    FTFY

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