Reminder of changes coming to Office support in October

Thank you so much Miriam Daniel from Microsoft for your most recent response.  The way I see it as a member of the IT Professional Community is that sadly there is not a compelling reason to continue support for Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac in regards to Office 365 since Office 365 is a SaaS (Software as a Service) and thus is continually evolving.  In addition, in regards to Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac, the lifecycle of the product ends in October 2020 and if consumers/businesses/gov'ts continue to use Office 2010 after October 2020 the business and individuals will be exposed to an increased risk of malware that could hit their network(s).  The Life Cycle of Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac ends on October 13, 2020 and there is an increased risk to your business if you continue to use Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac on your network(s) after this date if it is connected to the Internet or if someone manages to get removable media into the business or gov't environment that could compromise the network(s) by taking advantage of patched software within Office on end of life software.  However, Office 2013 support does not end until April 11, 2023 so perhaps Microsoft Corp. could throw us a bone so to say for this particular product and fully support it with Office 365 until the actual end of support date of April 11, 2023.  Thanks in advance Microsoft for seeing eye to eye with us in these matters.  There are also alternative Office Packages such as Libre Office that consumers and others could take advantage of but of course there is no official Microsoft support for these products.

The case was different with Windows 7 because so many governments and companies had technology that was specifically tied to Windows 7 and used Windows 7 Professional as well as Windows 7 Enterprise and that is why we are eternally grateful to Microsoft for having the ESU program tied to Windows 7 as well as for professional and safety and security reasons that I will not divulge over open channels.  Yes, there is some communication that in hindsight we regret but we "Get Laser Focused" on the mission at all costs so to coin a phrase and we feel we must succeed no matter what the personal cost may end up being and we succeeded thanks to Microsoft's Help and all our concerns were greatly met.  I hope this can continue the glorious friendship between us as we continue down the road in the future.  Web Sites to prove my points as follows:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/End-of-support-for-Office-2010-3A3E45DE-51AC-4944-B2BA-C2E415432789

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/end-of-support-for-office-2016-for-mac-e944a907-bbc8-4be5-918d-a514068d0056

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search/?p1=16674

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4527878/faq-about-extended-security-updates-for-windows-7