Microsoft will end support for Office 2016 and 2019 apps and servers on October 14, 2025

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Microsoft has announced the upcoming end of support (EOS) date for Office 2016 and Office 2019 apps, along with related productivity servers. All of those apps will no longer be supported after October 14, 2025.

In a blog post, Microsoft stated:

After this end date, Microsoft will no longer provide security fixes, bug fixes, or technical support. Using products after end of support leaves your organization vulnerable to potential security threats, productivity losses, and compliance issues.

The blog post listed the many Office 2016 and 2019 apps this new EOS date will affect, along with the server products;

  • Access 2016
  • Access 2019
  • Excel 2016
  • Excel 2019
  • OneNote 2016
  • Outlook 2016
  • Outlook 2019
  • PowerPoint 2016
  • PowerPoint 2019
  • Project 2016
  • Project 2019
  • Publisher 2016
  • Publisher 2019
  • Skype for Business 2016
  • Skype for Business 2019
  • Visio 2016
  • Visio 2019
  • Word 2016
  • Word 2019
  • Exchange Server 2016
  • Exchange Server 2019
  • Skype for Business Server 2015
  • Skype for Business Server 2019
Microsoft is recommending that organizations who have these apps installed instead sign up for a Microsoft 365 E3 cloud-based subscription.

If those groups still need to keep their PCs disconnected from the internet and are not yet ready to switch to Microsoft 365, the company does offer the Office Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) solution.

However, the EOS date for Office LTSC 2021 is October 13, 2026, so customers get just under a year of additional support beyond Office 2016 and 2019.

Microsoft has already announced plans to retire the Publisher app completely and will remove it from Microsoft 365 subscriptions in October 2026.

The company has revealed it plans to release a preview of Office LTSC 2024 for businesses and organizations sometime later in April. It plans to offer five years of support for the stand-alone Office 2024 apps.

A consumer version will launch sometime later in the fall of 2024.

 

Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 commercial public preview for Windows and Mac is available - Neowin​

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In March, Microsoft officially announced its plans to launch a new stand-alone version of its Office apps under the branding of Office 2024. Today, the company stated that a public preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 for commercial customers is now available.

In a blog post, Microsoft stated that those commercial customers can learn how to install and activate the public preview of Office LTSC 2024 for both Windows and Mac on their respective support pages.

The applications that are a part of the preview include:

  • Microsoft Office LTSC Professional Plus 2024 (includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access)
  • Microsoft Office LTSC Standard for Mac 2024 (includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote)
  • Microsoft Project Professional 2024
  • Microsoft Visio Professional 2024

In addition to features found in past Office releases, Microsoft says Office LTSC 2024 will also have "a subset of new features already available in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise." The specific new features were not revealed.

The apps will be supported for five years with software updates when they officially launch later this year.

Microsoft added:

And because we know that many customers deploy Office LTSC on only a subset of their devices, we will continue to support the deployment of both Office LTSC and Microsoft 365 Apps to different machines within the same organization using a common set of deployment tools: Click-to-Run on Windows and Apple Package format (pkg) on Mac, just like Office LTSC 2021.
Microsoft previously said that when the commercial versions of Office 2024 launched, customers would see higher prices, up to 10 percent, for the app collection compared to the previous Office release. Microsoft also confirmed that there will be a consumer version of Office 2024 released this year, but its prices will not be going up.

Earlier this week, Microsoft said that support for Office 2016 and 2019 apps will end on October 14, 2025.

 
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