Windows 10: Office 2019 here?

I've noticed updates in WSUS showing up like "(Preview) Office 2019 Perpetual Enterprise Client Update Version 1802 for x64 based Edition (Build 9029.2167)" and in the Microsoft Update Catalog.

At the same time Microsoft has a website up saying "Office 2019 perpetual volume license products available as Click-to-Run"

Is there a Office 2019 preview out there that we can test? And if we have Office 365, is everything above version 1802 considered "2019"?

:)

 

Cannot change the drive letter to what it used to be!

Screen Shot of Registry.

 

upgrading to ssd and memory

Sorry, for Office 2013 you are SOL. Starting with Office 2013 MS "improved" the way the key was stored on the computer. You will only get the last 5 digits of the key. Not enough. You have to find your full original product key. Good luck.

By any chance where you one of the vanishingly small minority who "registered" their license? Try logging in to the MyAccount site with the email address you would have used to register it: Sign in to your Microsoft account

If you have an Office license assocaited with that email then you will be able to use it to install on the new drive. Otherwise MS is more than happy to sell you a new copy of Office.

PS: at this point in time, if you are also a fan of one-time payment licenses I will go against the grain and suggest you get a monthly subscription to 365. Why, you ask. Because MS has announced that it will be releasing Office 2019 some time this year, but
no GA date yet. My W.A.G is that it will be in September or October. So if you want a 1-time licnse, might as well get the latest and greatest later this year. And if we are lucky, MS will also offer a "free upgrade" program a few months before GA to keep
sales up. Buy 2016 in the time window, get a free upgrade to 2019 when it comes out.

 

Mine shows 1803 but got it through MS back-door.





It still has a lot of 16's in it though ... so it's far from complete. Seems like a front-end change only.

 

The last info I saw about the Office 2019 Preview schedule in September -

The next perpetual release of Office [2019] - OfficeBlogs

They stated that there would be Previews from mid-year with release during the second half of 2018. I have not noticed an updated Blog.

Denis

 

This is interesting. I downloaded the Office 365 Insider build and have pretty much the same build numbers: 1803 (build 9127.2004), except it will say "Office 365 Business"