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Microsoft Office 2019 Will Only Work on Windows 10 (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

Microsoft on Thursday provided an update on Office 2019, in which it revealed that the apps will only run on Windows 10. From a report: In a support article for service and support of Windows and Office, Microsoft has revealed you'll need to upgrade to Windows 10 if you want the latest version of Office without subscribing to the company's Office 365 service. It's a move that's clearly designed to push businesses that are holding off on Office 365 into subscriptions, as the standalone Office 2019 software will only be supported on Windows 10 and not Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 machines. Microsoft is also altering the support lifecycle for Office 2019, so it will receive 5 years of mainstream support and then "approximately 2 years of extended support."

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  1. Subscriptions are going to kill my business.. by sqorbit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As a self employed contractor software subscriptions are killing my business. Adobe has forced me into a subscription model where I'm paying 50$ a month to use their software, Microsoft is pretty much forcing the subscription model of Office 365 on me. Will Microsoft have Windows on a subscription model soon? My monthly fees are going to pile up it's going to make the decision to seek open source alternatives and simple choice.

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  2. FU (again) Microsoft by krray · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have to run Windows. It was my choice -- accounting software. It is really the ONLY reason Windows is in the office anymore...

    Sadly Word / Excel work better on Windows IMHO; too many keyboard shortcuts missing in Office for Mac...

    I hate ribbons too. Won't use them.

    So I prefer Office XP which runs just fine on Windows 7 which run just fine virtualized running as a process on a Mac server.

    Windows has no business talking to the Internet (so it can't) which removes a whole bunch of security issues. I can run like this indefinitely. So ... fuck you Microsoft.

  3. Fine by me by DogDude · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's fine by me. We're still using Office 2003. Works fine.

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  4. You should have helped LibreOffice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If only people contributed to LibreOffice and Linux instead of giving billions to Microsoft you wouldn't be In the Windows 10 Monoculture. You have two years before Windows 7 expires, use that to plan your escape route.

  5. Re:Whatever by cayenne8 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Hmm....large entity and we're at MS Office 2010....I don't see us moving from that and Win 7 for quite a long time to come.

    No real reason to at this point....

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