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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:33AM (#632848)

    Even the plain old home edition is usable in a VM without violating the license,

    As if I cared even a scintilla about violating the license of an convicted felon corporation! I have violated every license of every Windoze operating system, some more than a dozen times! I have shared them with my enemies, who have suffered greatly therefrom! I have edited Registries without authorization, I have killed Blue Screens of Death! I have left installs of Win98 running, without rebooting, for months, until they were begging to be put out of their misery! Cruel, I know, but after what they did to me! So I violate Microsoft with a VM. Ha! I would prefer a red-hot axle shaft from a Toyota Fuji! If only to let them know a smidgeon of the pain and suffering that Micro$oft has inflicted on me, my friends, my family, and my fellow humans. Some things are unforgiveable, and what Micro$oft has done to computing is one of those things.