Office 2019 was first released at Ignite 2017 in September last year, but few details were announced at the time, and Microsoft has never mentioned it again, but IT House learned that it will include the new Features.
Microsoft now said again that the official version of Office 2019 will be released in the second half of 2018 and the preview version will be released in the second quarter of this year More interestingly, Microsoft said that Office 2019 runs on Windows 10 only (Mac version is unaffected ), And Extended Support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 ends in 2020 and 2023, respectively, so there will still be a certain number of users of these operating systems.
In addition, Office 2019 is only supported on the supported versions of Windows 10 Half Year Channel, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2018 and the next LTSC version of Windows Server, which means that, just as in the new Office 365 ProPlus strategy, Office 2019 will no longer be supported when the Windows version is no longer supported.
Office 2019 will include popular Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook client applications as well as commercial, server-based Exchange, SharePoint and Skype for Office 2019, targeting businesses that are not using Office 365.
Finally, Microsoft will not provide Office 2019 with 10 years of support, but five years of mainstream support, followed by two years of extended support, which will end on October 14, 2025.