New minimum Outlook for Windows version requirements for Microsoft 365

After receiving an email from Microsoft yesterday July 15, 2022, alerting me to the fact I access Outlook.com via Office 2007, I started to panic regarding the drop dead deadline of Aug. 15, 2022 for a change is needed.  I'm a simple home person running a Desk Top PC with Windows 10 and MS Office 2007 for my primary email management.   I have been always using this type of program going back +20 years when I had "Outlook Express", really old.   I have checked with my computer shop and after reading most of the background, I'm wondering if it is possible for me to go to Office 2013, or Office 2016, either or latest versions as specified?   I don't feel as a "home individual" I should have to go to "365" in a paying mode of either choice there.    My computer guy had set me up with Office 2007 years ago when I was running Windows 7.  We continued this Office 2007 when I went to Windows 10.   So, we have discussed using either Office 2013 latest, or Office 2016 latest.   "What say you"???