As I was writing an article about Office support and Microsoft’s policy on its future, getting ready to Publish it, Microsoft moved the target. Office 2016 which had been slated to be an unsupported in October of 2020 has had its support officially extended to 2023. This is great news for those that are currently using Office 2016 for their Office 365 tenant. Looks like Microsoft took some flak from their customers on this change on their support stance.
A lot of ink has been written on this but it is important that anyone that has a tenant in Office 365 should be aware of these changes. Read the complete policy here:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/skywriter/2017/08/07/office-365-planned-service-changes-2020/
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2018/09/06/helping-customers-shift-to-a-modern-desktop/
“Office 2016 connectivity support for Office 365 services
In addition, we are modifying the Office 365 services system requirements related to service connectivity. In February, we announced that starting October 13, 2020, customers will need Office 365 ProPlus or Office 2019 clients in mainstream support to connect to Office 365 services. To give you more time to transition fully to the cloud, we are now modifying that policy and will continue to support Office 2016 connections with the Office 365 services through October 2023.”
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