Windows 10: Office 2010 support is ending - get current with Office 365 ProPlus Office

Brink · Oct 16, 2019

The way we work has changed. When we launched Office 2010, our aim was to help customers unlock their potential with best-in-class tools they could use to be more productive. Ten years later, the very definition of productivity has changed significantly. To succeed today, businesses must help employees work collaboratively, from anywhere—and on schedules that fall outside the traditional nine-to-five framework. Meanwhile, staying ahead of ever-more-sophisticated security threats has simply outpaced the capacity of human vigilance alone.

Powered by the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI), Office 365 ProPlus is the future of Office, and I believe it’s the tool you need to keep your business successful and secure. In one year—on October 13, 2020—extended support for Office 2010 will end.

So my message to you today: Upgrade to Office 365 ProPlus, a product built for today’s challenges and literally getting better all the time, as we continue innovating across—and investing in—the experience. Consider just a few benefits: AI and machine learning to advance creativity and innovation, real-time collaboration across apps, and Microsoft Teams as the hub for teamwork. With built-in, cloud-powered security to protect your data, Office 365 ProPlus also provides the peace of mind that comes with knowing your business will not only be productive, but safe.

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Since Office 2010, we’ve introduced many great new features and enhancements to help you reach next level productivity. Here are just a few of my favorites:

Excel: XLOOKUP—With Office 365 ProPlus, Excel supports over a million rows of data and more ways to help you make sense of all that data, including chart types like sparklines and funnel. And if you’ve been using the VLOOKUP formula for working with data in Excel, you’ll be excited by its successor XLOOKUP, which addresses our most common user feedback and takes advantage of recent backend changes to improve calculation time. XLOOKUP is available today to Office Insiders, with general availability coming later this year.

Excel: Coauthor and collaborate—Coauthor spreadsheets from any device laptop, PC, or mobile—and see edits in real-time. And with threaded comments and @mentions, you can invite collaborators to conversations and make sure everyone has context on evolving content. In fact, coauthoring and collaboration are unique features across all of the Office apps with Office 365 ProPlus, thanks to the power of the cloud.

Word: Resume assistant—Fun fact: over 80 percent of resumes are updated in Word. One of the most popular Word features today is Resume Assistant, which helps you craft compelling resumes with personalized insights powered by LinkedIn. Use it to showcase your accomplishments while making it easy for recruiters to discover you—important steps to landing that next big opportunity.

Word: Dictation—People spend so much time recording audio interviews on their phone, and then even more time transcribing those conversations into Word. Earlier this month, we announced a solution that lets you upload audio files or record new ones on the fly, all within Word. Once your audio has been uploaded or recorded, Word leverages your OneDrive account to securely store the audio files, and—using Azure Speech Services—displays a written audio transcription in the side panel. You can even bring relevant snippets or the entire transcript into your document to edit, separate the transcript into pieces of content based on speakers, and use the interactive panel to jump around the recording to find and verify the perfect quote.

PowerPoint: Designer—Powered by AI, PowerPoint Designer helps you build professional-level presentations by offering up suggested slide designs. These include compelling photo slides along with process diagrams and timelines and iconography. Today, Designer offers up millions of slide suggestions to PowerPoint users every single day.

PowerPoint: Modern input (Inking, Voice, 3D)—PowerPoint users are also loving new Inking capabilities to our Office apps, including Inking in Slide Show for PowerPoint on the web and Ink Replay to bring presentations to life. Other new innovations help people be more productive when away from their desk—utilizing voice, digital pen, and touch across Office 365 and our Surface devices.

Ending support for Office 2010 marks the end of an era. While I love being part of a team that is committed to building the best productivity tool to unlock human potential, what really motivates me is seeing the future that cloud technology is enabling. None of the above features is available in Office 2010—or even Office 2019. To build them (and many more) we need the power of the cloud. This technology allows us to partner with customers like you to co-invent the future of the workplace. I can’t wait to see what you and your business achieve with Office 365 ProPlus.
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Brink · Oct 16, 2019

Support for 2013 versions of Office 365 ProPlus ends February 28, 2017

Hi everyone,

If you’re running the 2013 versions of Office 365 ProPlus apps, you’ll need to upgrade to the latest version of Office 365 apps to continue to receive support from Microsoft after February 28, 2017. Below is a list of products for which support will end:

Office 365 ProPlus (2013)

Office 365 Small Business Premium (2013)

Office 365 Business (2013)

Project Pro for Office 365 (2013)

Visio Pro for Office 365 (2013)

Note that this does not apply to Office 2013 Professional Plus, Professional, and Standard editions.

For more information, see this article: Support for the 2013 versions of Office 365 ProPlus ends February 28, 2017.

Thanks,

Anahita
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Brink · Oct 16, 2019

Office 365 ProPlus updates

Office 365 ProPlus delivers cloud-connected and always up-to-date versions of our most valuable enterprise apps. Today, we’re making three important announcements related to ProPlus: changes to the Office 365 system requirements; improvements to the ProPlus update model, including alignment with Windows 10; and new tools and programs to manage ProPlus application compatibility.

Changes to the Office 365 system requirements

Office 365 ProPlus is the very best way to experience the Office 365 services. For IT, ProPlus delivers the most secure and most complete suite of productivity apps available. And because the apps are cloud-connected and always up-to-date, they’re continually getting better—with new security features, new telemetry and new management capabilities. For end users, ProPlus brings the Office 365 services to life. When a modern app is connected to a modern service, magic happens. People can collaborate in new ways. Apps can simplify mundane tasks. And advanced security services can protect users as they work.

When customers connect to Office 365 with a legacy version of Office, they’re not enjoying all that the service has to offer. The IT benefits—particularly security—are cut short. And the end user experience in the apps is limited to the features shipped at a point in time. To ensure that customers are getting the most out of their Office 365 subscription, we are updating our system requirements.

Office 365 ProPlus or Office perpetual in mainstream support required to connect to Office 365 services. Starting October 13, 2020, Office 365 ProPlus or Office perpetual in mainstream support will be required to connect to Office 365 services. Office 365 ProPlus will deliver the best experience, but for customers who aren’t ready to move to the cloud by 2020, we will also support connections from Office perpetual in mainstream support.

Applies to Office 365 commercial services only. This update does not change our system requirements or support policies for the Office perpetual clients, Office perpetual clients connecting to on-premises servers, or any consumer services.

More than three years’ notice. We’re providing more than three years’ notice to give IT time to plan and budget for this change. Until this new requirement goes into effect in 2020, Office 2010, Office 2013 and Office 2016 perpetual clients will still be able to connect to Office 365 services.

Visit our Office 365 Tech Community to learn more and to ask the experts your questions.

Improvements to the Office 365 ProPlus update model, including alignment with Windows 10

Moving to Office 365 ProPlus requires an initial upgrade and ongoing management of regular updates. Customers quickly see the benefits of the move, but they’ve also asked us to simplify the update process—and to improve the coordination between Office and Windows. To respond to this feedback, we’re pleased to announce that we will align the Office 365 ProPlus and Windows 10 update model. This change will make planning and managing updates for both Office and Windows easier for customers using the Secure Productive Enterprise.

Targeting September 2017, we will make the following changes to the Office 365 ProPlus update model:

Two updates a year. We will reduce the Office 365 ProPlus update cadence from three to two times a year, with semi-annual feature updates to Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus targeted for March and September.

18 months of support. We will extend the support period for Office 365 ProPlus semi-annual updates from 12 to 18 months (starting from first release) so IT professionals can choose to update once or twice a year.

System Center Configuration Manager support. System Center Configuration Manager will support this new aligned update model for Office 365 ProPlus and Windows 10, making it easier to deploy and update the two products together.

See the upcoming changes to the Office 365 ProPlus update management article to learn more.

New tools and programs to manage Office 365 ProPlus application compatibility

One of the biggest concerns customers have about the move to a new version of Office is application compatibility. Office add-ins and VBA solutions often play a significant role in key business processes, and application compatibility is an important consideration in both upgrades and updates. To help customers manage ProPlus application compatibility, we’re pleased to announce four new investments.

Upgrade assessment tools. Starting today, we’re offering a limited preview of new tools that will catalogue the add-ins and VBA solutions in use in your organization, identify potential issues with the upgrade to Office 365 ProPlus, and recommend steps for remediation.

Application compatibility testing. For each new Office 365 ProPlus release, we will perform compatibility testing of the most common third-party add-ins, identify potential issues, and take steps to remediate.

Office 365 ProPlus monitoring services. We will provide new services to monitor your ProPlus deployment and provide visibility into the usage and stability of apps and add-ins.

Reporting, tracking and resolving issues. We will improve our existing service for reporting, tracking and resolving application compatibility issues—and partner with customers and ISVs to find the best approach to remediation.

You can learn more about the upgrade assessment tools today, and we’ll have more to share on our application compatibility testing program, the new Office 365 ProPlus monitoring services and the new service for reporting, tracking and resolving issues in the coming months.

We are here to help

If you’re connecting to Office 365 with a legacy version of Office, you’re not enjoying all that the service has to offer—and we’re here to help. For more information on Office 365 ProPlus deployment, refer to the Office 365 ProPlus Deployment Guide and the ProPlus Ignite On-Demand sessions. And when you’re ready to make the move to ProPlus, the Microsoft FastTrack customer success service will help you with the details. Visit the FastTrack website to learn more and submit a request for help with planning, assessment and deployment. ProPlus is the very best way to experience the Office 365 services, and we’re committed to helping you upgrade with confidence.

—Ron Markezich
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Brink · Oct 16, 2019

Windows Server 2019 adds support for Office 365 ProPlus Office

Windows Server 2019, Application Platform, UpdatesToday we’re introducing Office 365 ProPlus support for Windows Server 2019 customers with on-premises and Azure deployments. We’ve also enabled customers to immediately download and leverage FSLogix functionality, including the Office 365 Container, to enhance the speed and performance around user profile data in non-persistent virtualized environments. This continues our commitment to enhance the Office experience in local and virtualized environments and improves the end user experience in non-persistent virtualized environments.

Our priority is to continue to deliver a great Office experience in on-premises virtualized environments; we have updated our Office 365 support requirements and Windows Server support documentation to reflect Office 365 ProPlus support for Windows Server 2019. We recommend taking the following steps as a best practice:

Run Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019

Leverage flexibility of Windows Server 2019 to implement single and multi-session capabilities

Deploy FSLogix to ensure smooth user profile roaming and end user experience at log on

Use OneDrive with the Files On-Demand capabilities for optimized storage and retrieval of user files

For businesses considering the next step in their journey to the cloud, these recommendations ensure the best experience for on-premises deployment while enabling migration to Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service on Azure, now generally available worldwide. Windows Virtual Desktop provides customers with the best virtual desktop and simplified management on Azure, including support for Windows Server workloads and Office 365 ProPlus, to unlock a productive virtualized end user experience.
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