When Office 2019 was released three years later, it included some, but by no means all, of the features that Office 365 had at that time. But the two soon diverged: Microsoft began rolling out new features to Office 365 that the perpetual Office 2016 version didn’t get. When Office 2016 was first released in late 2015, the perpetual version and the Office 365 version had the same features. Office 365/Microsoft 365 subscribers pay ongoing fees to use the software, while buyers of the perpetual version pay a one-time fee and own it forever. Before we get into those new features, though, let’s look at how Microsoft has differentiated its subscription and non-subscription versions of Office.įor years now, Microsoft has been pushing the subscription version of its office suite - known as Office 365 or Microsoft 365, depending on the license - over the non-subscription version, which it calls the “perpetual” version of Office. The enterprise and consumer Office 2021 versions have a similar set of new features. Microsoft explains Office LTSC and its changes in more detail in a Tech Community post (opens in new tab).Two weeks after releasing Office LTSC 2021, the new non-subscription version of its office suite for enterprises, Microsoft has released Office 2021 for consumers, students, and small businesses. Office LTSC will be supported for five years going forward, which is two fewer than what Microsoft provided previously.
At the same time, we definitely have customers who have specific scenarios where they don't feel like they can move to the cloud."
Microsoft's Jared Spataro, head of Microsoft 365, told The Verge, "We certainly have a lot of customers that have moved to the cloud over the last 10 months, that's happened en masse really. Microsoft expects businesses to use Office LTSC in specific scenarios rather than rolling it out across an entire organization. Microsoft explains that Office LTSC is for "regulated devices that cannot accept feature updates for years at a time, process control devices on the manufacturing floor that are not connected to the internet, and specialty systems that must stay locked in time and require a long-term servicing channel." Office LTSC is for a different use case than Office 2021.
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