Perpetual Licenses to Lose Office 365 Services in 2020
Microsoft doubles down on moving Office 365 services to the cloud by discontinuing business services for standalone Office software. Microsoft is giving Office users a generous heads up in their latest Office 365 ProPlus update released April 20, 2017, regarding the future of certain business-centric services that have been made available by Office 365. With this new update, “Office 365 ProPlus or Office perpetual in mainstream support will be required to connect to Office 365 services” beginning October 13, 2020. What does this mean for Office 2010, Office 2013, and Office 2016 users? When this policy change goes through in...