Windows 10: Microsoft’s Office app for Windows 10 is getting a big upgrade

Microsoft has been slowly ditching native apps with Progressive Web Apps in the Windows Store. In 2019, Microsoft replaced the native Windows app “My Office” with “Office”, which is essentially a web app that allows anyone to access Office.com without opening a browser.

Microsoft is now working on a new version of the Office app that will replace the app currently available and act as a central hub for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The new Office app aims to provide a more useful way for users to search, upload and view Office documents for free.

Though the Office hub has always been a web app, this new version will be based on the latest web technology (presumably WebView 2). As a result, the brand-new Office app for Windows 10 will offer improved performance, reliability, and more.

In addition to performance improvements, Microsoft is also introducing a new feature that will allow users to open more than one instance of the web app at the same time.

Microsoft is not changing the interface of the new web app, but there’ll be a few noticable improvements. For example, Microsoft is introducing a new cleaner app header and the navigation button is being retained for tablet users.



As per a statement from the company, the new Office app will begin rolling out in early June and it would become available for everyone by the end of the month.

“Users without Win32 [traditional paid Office apps] installed will be able to view files directly in the Office App for Desktop, and be able to compare documents [by launching multiple instances of the app],” the company said in a new message posted on Microsoft 365 Admin Portal.

For those unaware, the Office app is based on Office.com and it is free to use with some limitations. It also comes preinstalled with Windows 10 November 2019 Update or newer, and users don’t need an Office 365 subscription to use it.

If you don’t have it installed for some reasons, you can always install it from the Microsoft Store manually.

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Microsoft Office 2019 Will Run on Windows 10, and Only Windows 10

That will be a first

Microsoft getting any version of office to run properly on Windows 10.*Big Grin

 

Office 2019

Only supported on Win10. Sorry, 8.1 users, only 4 years old, gotta go.

Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...-to-office-and-windows-servicing-and-support/

Spoiler Office 2019
Last year at Ignite, we announced Office 2019 – the next perpetual version of Office that includes apps (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and Skype for Business) and servers (including Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business). Today we’re pleased to share the following updates:

• Office 2019 will ship in H2 of 2018. Previews of the new apps and servers will start shipping in the second quarter of 2018.
• Office 2019 apps will be supported on:
  • Any supported Windows 10 SAC release
  • Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2018
  • The next LTSC release of Windows Server
• The Office 2019 client apps will be released with Click-to-Run installation technology only. We will not provide MSI as a deployment methodology for Office 2019 clients. We will continue to provide MSI for Office Server products.

 

Microsoft Office 2019 Will Run on Windows 10, and Only Windows 10

I'm fairly sure I could get office 97 and up to run on 10... I can check on wednesday when I get my NAS back up if you insist...