Windows 10: Does MS give Office 2016-licenses away for free?

When I entered my personal ms-account with no 365-subscription attached in a fresh 365-setup on a fresh install of 21H1, it went on to install Office 2016 which was then activated. Have I ever bought 2016 and forgot, or is MS playing nice?

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Office 365 or Office 2016

Under info for the new office listing on My Visual Studio it states.

Office Professional Plus 2016 (x86 and x64) - (Multiple Languages)
To obtain the product, follow these steps:

Step 1: Get your product key by clicking the ‘Get key’ button on the right.

Step 2: Go to the Office website by clicking the ‘Get it now’ button.

Step 3: Enter your 25-character product key and continue as directed on the site.

Released: 9/23/2015

And for the discontinued it states.

Office Professional Plus 2016 (Discontinued)
Info
Keys
Office Professional Plus 2016 (x86 and x64) - DVD (English)
No additional details are available for this file.

Released: 9/22/2015
SHA1: 213A8A0F8849516704101CB6C49F6A027B0D6D5F
File name: en_office_professional_plus_2016_x86_x64_dvd_6962141.iso

I'm thinking option one is going to be my only option. I'm fine with that as long as I can get Outlook to work with my ISP's pop3 e-mail. Last time I tried that with the new 2016 install I could not get it to work, no way no how. All the same settings that work with the ISO install?

EDIT: I should mention, for me as far as I know, neither of these options are a subscription. They use two different keys but they are perpetual one time activation licenses. I only ran the new download briefly though, as I could not get outlook to work. I bailed and went back to what works.

 

MS office 2016 standard complete removal.

Thank for your suggest.

i have already done with this step. After done this, system remain showing all Office 2016 application and still opening.

Regards

Yogesha naik

 

MS Office 2016 installation problems

Ok tried to re-install MS Office 2016 a second time and now it runs however each time I open a MS Office 2016 app such as Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.

I'm prompted with a message box that states.

How do you want to activate your software?

[x] I want to activate the software over the Internet (recommended)
[ ] I want to activate the software by telephone

This product will remain unlicensed until you activate your product (Click help for more information)

If I select the first one "over the Internet" and click "Next"

I receive a message from the Activation Wizard

Your copy of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 cannot be activated because the specified Product Key has already been activated the maximum numbers of times permitted for your software license as specified in the Microsoft Software Terms. For details about the maximum allowed number of product activation, click help and then search for "Read the Microsoft Software License Terms".

If I select over the telephone it shows me

Step 1 a telephone number to call

Step 2. When prompted enter installation ID (with 9 set of number each consisting of 7 numbers)

Step 3 Enter confirmation ID here (empty boxes to enter confirmation ID

I would call the Microsoft telephone number 866-421-7141 however my cell phone doesn't have reception at my home location. I need to travel 12 miles north in order to send or receive calls.