MicrosoftHi Karl,
thank you for this info, which I was not aware of.
However, I am relatively relaxed about the discontinuation of Office support for the terminal servers. Access (or other Office products) are ultimately nothing more than (any) other applications.
If Access, Word or Excel could no longer be started on a VPS (or terminal server or Windows virtual machine), then a hurricane would sweep over MS. In that case, you might as well bury Windows as a server platform for remote devices.
"Special" terminal server support on the part of the 365 Office version should not be necessary for the majority of customers. The standard functionality that will be available to every other program on a VPS (like banking programs, CRM, DMS, etc.) should also be retained for Office.
Greetings from bensheim
Stephan
Edit (because of German language article on Karl's FAQ website) :
If I have understood correctly, then the entire Office (365) should no longer be executable on the newer Windows server systems (or no longer installable).
In concrete terms, this means that in the future only remote systems (VPS) provided exclusively via "Azure Cloud" will be available that can (also) offer MS Office. All competitors (including data centers) are to be forced out of the market.
I am firmly convinced that this plan will fail (complete monopoly) and that instead of Microsoft Office they will switch to Open Office (or other alternatives). Currently, there is no reason to do without MS Office. With such a control very well.
Should MS also offer VPS only for Azure in addition to the Office package, EU legislation will prevent this at the latest and possibly remove "Azure" from the market in our country. Alternatively, there will be providers who circumvent the artificial barriers. It remains to be seen whether EU jurisdiction will then rule in favor of MS in the event of a dispute (e.g. void contract clauses).
Stephan
