Microsoft Office 2021 is landing alongside Windows 11 on October 5 – Office LTSC available today

guest · Sep 16, 2021

Microsoft Office 2021 is landing alongside Windows 11 on October 5
The company also made Office LTSC available today
September 16, 2021
https://www.techspot.com/news/91290-microsoft-office-2021-landing-alongside-windows-11-october.html

In brief: Microsoft has a lot of happy Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users, with over a million organizations on the former and over 300 million seats on the latter service. However, a lot of people and companies depend on and prefer the "perpetual" version of Office, and that's coming alongside Windows 11 next month.

Last year, Microsoft gave many people hope when it said that it hadn't given up on the standalone version of Office. At the time, this was only mentioned in a one-liner buried in announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020, but now the "perpetual" version of Office has an official release date -- October 5.
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Microsoft is also making the Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) available today for commercial and government users on both Windows and Mac. This is the other non-subscription version of Office that offers only the essential features present in Microsoft 365 and Office 365, as it's designed for specific, regulated scenarios.

In other words, this is a locked-in-time Office suite for devices that aren't connected to the Internet or act as process control devices on the factory floor.
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Notable features that will come to both Office LTSC and are likely to end up in Office 2021 include support for Dark Mode, Line Focus for Word documents, dynamic arrays in Excel, and an XLOOKUP function to make it easier to find things when searching through tables.

It's also important to note that both Office 2021 and Office LTSC will come with five years of support.

And the good news is that Microsoft confirmed there will be at least one more "perpetual" version of Office in the future.
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Microsoft: Office LTSC is now generally available

We also know some customers aren’t ready to move to the cloud. We remain committed to supporting our customers and these scenarios.
Office LTSC is designed for specific scenarios: regulated devices that cannot accept feature updates, process control devices on the manufacturing floor, and specialty systems that cannot connect to the internet.
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For more information on Office LTSC, available to commercial and government volume-licensed customers today, please visit the Office LTSC overview page. We’re also pleased to share both Project and Visio are generally available today. Our consumer perpetual offering, Office 2021, will be generally available on October 5, 2021—more details to follow.
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guest · Sep 16, 2021

Microsoft rolls out Office LTSC 2021 for Windows and Mac
September 16, 2021
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...lls-out-office-ltsc-2021-for-windows-and-mac/

Microsoft today started rolling out Office LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel) for Windows and macOS, the non-subscription Office version for commercial and government customers.

"While it offers performance improvements and expanded accessibility, it will not offer the cloud-based capabilities of Microsoft 365 Apps like real-time collaboration and AI-driven automation in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as security and compliance capabilities that give added confidence in a hybrid world," said Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365.
This perpetual Office product is available under the "one-time purchase" model and the same price paid for previous versions (i.e., Office 2019).
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Starting today, Office LTSC can be deployed in enterprise environments using Click-to-Run installation tech, with the following volume licensed Office products available for Windows devices: [...]
On macOS devices, volume licensed customers can deploy Office LTSC Standard for Mac 2021 using the steps detailed in the deployment guide for Office for Mac.
Five years of support, no extended support option
Microsoft first announced Office LTSC 2021 in February and released a commercial preview two months later, in April 2021.

According to Microsoft, there won't be an Extended Support option for these products after the five years of Mainstream Support end.
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imdb · Sep 16, 2021

great. looking forward to it. thanks @mood

guest · Oct 1, 2021

Microsoft announces Office 2021 features and pricing
Office 2021 arrives on October 5th
October 1, 2021
https://www.theverge.com/22704168/microsoft-office-2021-features-pricing-release-date

Microsoft is launching Office 2021 on October 5th, and the company is finally detailing the features and pricing today. Office 2021 will be the next standalone version of Microsoft’s Office suite, designed for businesses and consumers who want to avoid the subscription version of Office.

Office Home and Student 2021 will be priced at $149.99 and include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Microsoft Teams for PC and Mac. Office Home and Business 2021 is priced at $249.99 and will include everything in the Home version and Outlook for PC and Mac, alongside the rights to use all of the Office apps for business purposes.
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Office 2021 will also include the new Office design that has a refreshed ribbon interface, rounded corners, and a neutral color palette that all matches the UI changes in Windows 11.
Microsoft is also adding in some Microsoft 365 features to Office 2021, including modern Excel features, PowerPoint improvements, better inking in Office apps, and Outlook translation support. Here are all the new Office 2021 features: [...]
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Office 2021 will be available on October 5th, alongside the launch of Windows 11. Microsoft says Office 2021 is supported on Windows 11, Windows 10, and the three most recent versions of macOS.
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NormanF · Oct 2, 2021

Still running Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 and I have no plans to upgrade.

ronjor · Dec 2, 2021

Microsoft’s new Office UI is now rolling out to everyone

By Tom Warren@tomwarren Dec 2, 2021
Office is getting a fresh visual update
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Victek · Feb 12, 2022

ronjor said: ↑

Microsoft’s new Office UI is now rolling out to everyone
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Regarding the new Office 2021 UI do you know if dark mode is available? By dark mode I don't just mean the menus, but also the page, for instance white letters on a dark background in a Word document.

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