Microsoft Office 2019 will only run on Windows 10

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Microsoft Office 2019 will only run on Windows 10

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Tech Republic wrote:
Windows 10 only: No Microsoft Office 2019 if you're on Windows 7 or 8.1

Office 2019 will not be supported on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, despite those operating systems being expected to remain in use until 2020 and 2023 respectively. Tying Office 2019 to Windows 10 appears to be the latest in a series of moves by Microsoft designed to push firms to upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1, such as scaling back support for older versions of Windows on newer processors and casting doubt on the security of Windows 7.
Office 2019 is expected to be available in the second half of 2018.
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Thanks for the heads-up.
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... and only supported for 7 years instead of 10.

See Office-Watch.com
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TX for the link Claude. Some additional info in that report! :cheers:
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I have to argue with one sentence in the Office-watch article:
There’ll be no single large download or .MSI installation except for specialist installations on servers.
The MSI installation will be available to customers (mostly large companies) who purchase "Volume" licenses. That's what you buy when you have hundreds or thousands of desktops to install (not, or not necessarily, servers). Setting up the infrastructure to support volume licensing is a job for specialists in IT, so I guess that part of it is correct.