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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. Eat My Ass by sexconker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eat my ass, MS. I'm not running Windows 10, and you can't make me!

    1. Re:Eat My Ass by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well I guess you may be able to take a few days to get Wine setup to handle it.

      However that is what my experience is.
      The Boss gets a document to you and it is slightly screwed up (off fonts, or spacing) they Demand that they send it in that format. You open the file and save it and it goes off again.
      Then they find out that you are not Using the newest version of office. So you have an option, upgrade to Office, or downgrade your job.

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  2. Switch to Libreoffice - V6 is Out - It's Free! by BrendaEM · · Score: 4, Informative

    LibreOffice includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and a database.
    It's free!
    https://www.libreoffice.org/

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    1. Re:Switch to Libreoffice - V6 is Out - It's Free! by sirber · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's free!

      free? shut up and take my money!

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    2. Re:Switch to Libreoffice - V6 is Out - It's Free! by thegreatbob · · Score: 4, Insightful

      protip: it works very well with older MS formats, e.g. Office 97 Excel/Word documents... docx and xlsx formats.... not so much. My experience has been that it tends to crash pretty often with those, so consider saving a working copy in either native or old-microsoft formats.

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    3. Re:Switch to Libreoffice - V6 is Out - It's Free! by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

      But that's unpossible! Microsoft said that they were going to use an open XML format!

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  3. 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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    1. Re:Subscriptions are going to kill my business.. by BenFranske · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Will Microsoft have Windows on a subscription model soon?

      They already do for bigger businesses, it's called "software assurance". Believe you me, if/when they could figure out how to force smaller business users into subscription Windows they will. There's a reason that the commercial software publishers (Adobe, Autodesk, etc.) are all going subscription based, hint, it's not because it's better for consumers. It's because it's much more lucrative for them. These people are in business to make money, which means taking yours. They've just gotten better at it.

  4. Total BS by omfglearntoplay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't imagine business standing for this. I'm sure many would run Office 2016 for 10 years if they had to.

  5. 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.

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  7. Re:If you can't kill off Win7 by Wrath0fb0b · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, there's definitely no legitimate reason that an upcoming project would decide to deprecate support for an OS that will be 10 years old at the point of release (Win7 came out in '09). Supporting and doing quality assurance on multiple OS targets is totally free from an engineering and testing standpoint. All API features from newer OSes are backported to decades-old ones.

    Note that LibreOffice dropped support for OSX 10.8 (2012) and required various Linux components (Kernel/GTK) from 2006.

    Removing support for old stuff at the right time is part of the software flow. Supporting the everything-on-everything model means less resources (both development and testing) for other stuff. Surely there's a "too soon" for deprecation" but also a "too late". One decade sounds pretty dang reasonable.

  8. Re:If you can't kill off Win7 by jwhyche · · Score: 4, Insightful

    h, there's definitely no legitimate reason that an upcoming project would decide to deprecate support for an OS that will be 10 years old

    You really need to stop being a voice of reason around here. I mean we can't have these great hate microsoft bashing threads if you keep using your common sense.

    Geezz. get with the program.

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  9. Re:If you can't kill off Win7 by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You really need to stop being a voice of reason around here.

    Somebody has to. You should see my political campaign. I got in an argument with some guy who keeps telling me capitalism is past its end and it's time we moved on; he was very angry when I pointed out that the CEO of Home Depot taking lower pay and fewer bonuses wouldn't "pay for higher wages and benefits" because Home Depot has 300,000 employees and the entire executive suite nets $28/year per employee in cash compensation between them. His argument was I'm wrong because "their wealth is built on the backs of mistreated employees" (notice this ignores the numerical analyses).

    Even when you ditch the socialists, that's the voice of today's progressive left movement: make the rich pay, make the businesses pay, make everybody with power pay, make Wall Street pay. I can agree with regulation about banks and such; and I'm interested in something today's progressives aren't talking about: strategies to bring the poor out of poverty and provide more economic fairness to the middle-class.

    It makes people angry. It's like the progressive left don't really care about the poor, only about the rich. Somebody's got to say it.

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  10. Re: Switch to Libreoffice - V6 is Out - It's Free by Ken_g6 · · Score: 4, Informative

    And here's the link to give them your money.

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  11. 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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