Microsoft announces that Office 2024 will be available without a subscription, but will only include a subset of Microsoft 365. The subscription model therefore clearly remains its priority

2024-03-19 15:36:29

Aperu de Microsoft Office LTSC 2024

Microsoft 365 delivers the cloud-backed apps, security, and storage that customers around the world rely on to do more in a connected world – and lays the foundation for leveraging generative AI to do even more far. However, we know that some customers have niche but important scenarios that require a true long-term service channel: regulated devices that cannot accept feature updates for years, process control devices in the manufacturing floors that are not connected to the Internet, and specialized systems such as medical test equipment that run embedded applications that must remain locked over time. For these special cases, Microsoft continues to offer and support the Office Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC). Today, we are pleased to announce that the commercial preview of the next version of Office LTSC – Office LTSC 2024 – will begin next month, with general availability to follow later in the year.

about this version

Like previous perpetual releases of Office, Office LTSC 2024 will only include a subset of the value found in Microsoft 365 Apps, building on features included in previous releases. New features in Office LTSC 2024 include: new meeting creation options and search improvements in Outlook, dozens of new Excel features and functions, including dynamic charts and tables, and improved performance, security and accessibility. Office LTSC 2024 will not ship with Microsoft Publisher, which is being retired, nor with the Microsoft Teams app, which can be downloaded separately.

Although Office LTSC 2024 offers many significant improvements over the previous version of Office LTSC, as an on-premises product it will not offer the cloud-based features of Microsoft 365 Apps, such as real-time collaboration. real, AI-driven automation in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, or cloud-backed security and compliance features that give more confidence in a hybrid world. Additionally, with device-based licensing and expanded offline access, Microsoft 365 provides deployment options for scenarios like computer labs and submarines that require more than a device-based solution. user and always online. The Microsoft 365 (or Office 365) subscription is also necessary to subscribe to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365; As a disconnected product, Office LTSC does not meet the requirements.

As with previous releases, Office LTSC 2024 will still be a device-based “perpetual” license, supported for five years under the fixed lifecycle policy, alongside Windows 11 LTSC, which will also launch in the during the year. And because we know that many customers only deploy Office LTSC on a subset of their devices, we will continue to support the deployment of Office LTSC and Microsoft 365 Apps on different machines within the same organization. using a common set of deployment tools.

Office LTSC is a specialty product that Microsoft is committed to maintaining for use in exceptional circumstances, and the 2024 release provides substantial new functional value for these scenarios. To support continued innovation in this niche, Microsoft will increase the price of Office LTSC Professional Plus, Office LTSC Standard, Office LTSC Embedded and individual applications by up to 10% at the time of general availability. And since we are asked at the time of the release of the version if there will be another one, I can confirm that we are committed to releasing another version in the future.

We will provide additional information about the next release of Visio and Project on-premises in the coming months.

Office 2024 for consumers

We also plan to release a new version of Office on-premises for consumers later this year: Office 2024. Office 2024 will also be supported for five years under the traditional “one-time purchase” model. We do not plan to change the price of these products upon release. We’ll announce more details about the new features included in Office 2024 as we approach general availability.

Integrate the future of work

The future of work in an AI-powered world is in the cloud. In most customer scenarios, Microsoft 365 offers the most secure, productive, and cost-effective solution, and allows customers to unleash the transformative power of AI with Microsoft Copilot. Particularly as we approach the end of support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 in October 2025, we encourage customers who are still using these solutions to upgrade to a cloud subscription that fits their needs as a small business or larger organization. And for scenarios where this is not possible – where an offline, time-locked solution is required – this new release reflects our commitment to supporting this need.

FAQ :

Will the next version of Office have a Mac version?
Yes, the next version of Office will have Windows and Mac versions for businesses and home users.

Will the next version of Office be compatible with Windows 10?
Yes, Office LTSC 2024 will be supported on Windows 10 and Windows 10 LTSC devices (except Arm devices, which will require Windows 11).

Will the next version support 32 and 64 bit versions?
Yes, the next version of Office will include 32 and 64 bit versions.

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