Microsoft now issues two Office 365 ProPlus feature upgrades - ProPlus is the standard suite that provides rights to the locally installed applications, including Excel, Outlook and Word, for 365 subscribers - annually. Office 2019 will likely appear around the same time of the year, in that same order. In late September 2015, Microsoft offered the Windows edition of Office 2016 to Office 365 customers first, then followed with retail versions. No date yet, but there are hints enough to take a guess. Spataro called out 'Office 2019' at the time as the nameplate for the application collection. and servers,' wrote Jared Spataro, general manager for Office, in a September post to a company blog. 'This release, scheduled for the second half of 2018, will include perpetual versions of the Office apps. The company pegged the launch of the suite during the second half of the year.

In other words, the license has no expiration date, and users may run the suite as long as they want. Most of the time Microsoft uses the term 'one-time purchase' to label a software license that is paid for with a 'single, up-front cost to get Office applications for one computer.' The purchase gives the buyer the right to use Office in perpetuity.

Microsoft categorizes software by how it is paid for, discriminating between a license that was bought outright from one that is essentially 'rented' because it's paid for over time, like a subscription. So, we collected some of the pressing questions business may have about the suite. The bundle, named 'Office 2019,' will be geared to customers, primarily corporate customers, 'who aren't yet ready for the cloud,' according to Microsoft.īut other than that description, Microsoft has been vague about the prospect of Office 2019 with a 'perpetual' license, one that lets the customer run the suite as long as desired without further payments. Microsoft last year announced that there will be a successor to Office 2016, the non-subscription version of the application suite, and that the upgrade would ship in about a year.

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