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Key End of Support dates for Office 2016, 2019 Apps & Productivity Servers

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Apr 15, 2024
This post applies to: Office 2016, Office 2019 Applications: Access 2016, Access 2019, Excel 2016, Excel 2019, OneNote 2016, Outlook 2016, Outlook 2019, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2019, Project ...
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Nov 12, 2024

And I will like to make a suggestion about all these end of supports for Microsoft Products, Microsoft should make it mandatory for users that are using outdated products not to be able to use its products because when we tell them and even give them reasons to upgrade or use original products they believe we are lying or looking for a way to make money of them.

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    Karl-WE
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    Nov 13, 2024

    I understand your idea and while it looks sane in a specific aspect, like security and having more pressure to not stuck and build IT on legacy please consider the following:

     

    Few Personal, Business, might not upgrade to anything because of:

    • financial reasons (debts, spending limits)
    • Their app being incompatible technically 
    • Their app being compatible but 3rd party vendors that use it, do not support the new apps (seen this many times esp with Office) 
    • It's legally tricky with licensing as customers may use perpetual licenses, that give them the permissions of using the software within these boundaries. So I cannot see how this will work with perpetual licensing at all.
    • Legal requirements exist to use recent and updated software for security reasons, like EU GPDR and security frameworks / industry standards