Difference between Office (Desktop) versions

[Iivo Kerminen]

Hi

What is the difference between Office 365 ProPlus, that comes with Office 365 E3 and above, and Office 2016, that comes with Office 365 Business Premium??

What I have understood, at least there is a difference with Intune Office auto installation which supports only ProPlus but not the Office version that comes with Office 365 Business Premium..

[#2]

Most of the differences are summarized here for Outlook: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/outlook-license-requirements-for-exchange-features-46b6b7c5...

The same applies for the other programs as well, you can expect feature parity with the exception of some compliance-related functionalities such as IRM or DLP support.

[#3]

Actually I found below article which shows pretty nicely the differences between all Office Applications across different Office 365 plans.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-applications-service-description.aspx

[#4]

Hi Livo,

i will take a try to make you to understand the difference & please read this post with clear/empty mind don't confuse yourself.

-> office 365 is a concept or a "name the product"

-> " office professional pro-plus" " office business premium" "office home" "office business " " office student"  and many more are the options/types of products available under "Office 365" provided by microsoft.

-> E1 E3 & E5 are types of licenses available under single individual product listed above. 

-> difference between E1 E2 & E3 are limitation of cloud storage, number of services/features i.e., word, excel, Power BI and etc..., cost pricing & many more...

Comparison of Microsoft Office E1, E3, and E5

Here’s a breakdown of key Office features, and which plans include each feature:

Feature	Office E1	Office E3	Office E5
Email and Calendar	Included	Included	Included
Skype for Business – IM, Voice, Video Chat	Included	Included	Included
Yammer, Video, Sharepoint	Included	Included	Included
OneDrive for Business, Delve	Included	Included	Included
Microsoft Office Apps Online	Included	Included	Included
Office Client/Desktop Apps		Included	Included
Power BI Pro License			Included
Skype Integrations with Telephone System			Included
Security & Backup Features	Exchange Online Protection, Archive	+ Data Loss Prevention, Rights Management, eDiscovery	+ Advanced Threat Protection, Customer Lockbox
Where to Buy	Buy Now	Buy Now	Buy Now

last one office 2013 & 2016 are the apps that you can work on them on your system. there is nothing difference between 2013 & 2016 they are just an update from one version to other all works same. to keep security patches up to date. 

note: office 2016 & 2013 apps comes under office 365 packages.

hope you understand this.. if this helps you to understand then i will be satisfied. 

regards,

kiran