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

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 Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:29PM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:29PM (#632673) Journal

    I've never done this myself, but as I understand it, a CPU with Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU is required. This allows you to specify, at the Linux commandline, which PCIe slots are to be populated with a "PCI Stub" driver, and then the VM hypervisor of your choice can be directed to dedicate these slots explicitly to a single VM.

    There's a youtube video of someone doing this, IIRC, which I first saw more than a year ago.

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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday February 04 2018, @05:02AM

    by Marand (1081) on Sunday February 04 2018, @05:02AM (#632804) Journal

    You've got the gist of it. I gave some extra detail in my other comment [soylentnews.org] if you're interested.