Microsoft Project Online is retiring: What you need to know

Transition to another product that is feature compatible will take more than 12 months for most corporate clients, and this announcement simply shows how unrealistic and out of touch Microsoft is with their customers. Two things are certain - when Microsoft said that Project Online wasn’t going anywhere back in February and that they were committed to supporting their customers, they lied. The previously promised date of June 2030 seems to have evaporated. With this timescale corporates won’t even have a full financial year to transition data and that will be a massive headache. The sheer volume of customers requiring help is ire to be overwhelming.  Either Planner needs to reach parity in terms of features in the next two months (not going to happen) or Project Server SE needs to have a smooth way of supporting all the Power BI reporting. Then there’s the issue of corporates with high end integrations that would normally take well over 12 months to plan, develop and execute. Microsft is incredibly naive if it thinks this is all possible within 12 months for all of their Project Online customers. A lot of customers are going to be very angry at this announcement and I don’t blame them. I’d like to understand what additional resources Microsoft is putting in place to support customers, including manpower (essential). Funding alone won’t cut it. Hugely disappointing and poorly thought out announcement from Microsoft. After 40 years in IT this is the single worst move I ever saw from Microsoft.