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1. WHEN IS THE NEW MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC COMING OUT UPDATE
2. WHEN IS THE NEW MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC COMING OUT SOFTWARE

The company would much prefer to dump the entire range of perpetual licence products and bank on annual tribute payments from all their customers.

WHEN IS THE NEW MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC COMING OUT UPDATE

Will there be an Office 2023? Another perpetual licence version of Office. At Ignite 2020 last fall, Microsoft confirmed that a new subscription-free update for Office was coming in the second half of 2021.Today, the company announced that Office 2021 will indeed arrive. They are sticking to the tried and true policy of upgrading to every second version of Office. These customers have resisted the pressure to move to Office 2019 or Microsoft 365. The major target audience for Office 2021 is volume licence customers using Office 2016. Don’t expect nice stuff like Stock and other Linked Data Types to be in Excel 2021. It’s reasonable to think that the new or changed features will be non-cloud related. No release date, except a six-month window in late 2021. “Microsoft Office will also see a new perpetual release for both Windows and Mac, in the second half of 2021.” Here’s the complete Microsoft announcement: What we know about Office 2022Īlmost nothing is known about Office 2021. After all, Office 2019 went public in September 2018. Calling the release ‘Office 2021’ risks people thinking it’s outdated after only a few months. It would be unlike Microsoft to miss such an obvious marketing trick. Though it’ll be released in the second half of 2021, the new Office will probably be called Office 2022. If Microsoft stopped fixed price Office releases, those customers would defect to a non-Microsoft office suite and that’s something Redmond can’t allow. They will release perpetual licence versions of Office for as long as there is significant demand.

WHEN IS THE NEW MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC COMING OUT SOFTWARE

The yearly payment ‘subscription’ is much more profitable for Microsoft so they do everything they can to push that as the ‘only’ option.īut Microsoft also knows there are volume customers who resist the constant changes to Office software and the ongoing costs of annual plans. It was pretty much inevitable that Microsoft would be forced to continue their perpetual licence product line.Īs we’ve mentioned before, Microsoft would very much prefer all customers (individual, business, education and governments) to use their Microsoft 365 annual payment plans.

It’s not a surprise that Office 2019 will be upgraded. There’s already been a lot of ill-informed comment about the next ‘fixed’ Office release.