Has launched the latest version of its productivity suite, Office 2019, for Windows and Mac users as a one-time purchase option. While the company has been encouraging users to its cloud-based subscription service, Office 365, in order for them to access Office apps and regular feature updates, it realises some people still simply want to buy Office like the used to: once - that's it - with no subscription fee. 'We recognize that some customers can't move to the cloud in the near term,' it explained. 'We want to support all our customers'.

The preview period is over. Microsoft is making Office 2019 generally available starting today, September 24, for Windows and Mac. Office 2019 is the successor to Office 2016. It's the 'perpetual.

So, the company is rolling out Office 2019 for Mac and Windows. You can purchase the suite once and use it as much as you want, but you won't get feature updates. Microsoft said Office 2019 includes a 'meaningful subset of features that are found in Office 365', and it's not part of Office 365. Although this Office 2019 software won't be continually updated, it will receive 'quality and security updates'. Here's what you need to know.

• • • Microsoft What is Office 2019? • Office 2019 is an upgrade to Office 2016 • Office 365 is different; it's an Office subscription service Office 2019 is the next 'on-premise' release of Microsoft's productivity suite. You download this program on your Windows PC or Mac machine, after paying for it once, and you get unrestricted access to all its included apps. The last major 'on-premise' version of Office, it has four core apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. (OneNote is free and available outside of Office, regardless of platform). Office 2019 has some features found in Office 365, a cloud-based subscription service that also provides access to Office apps.

However, paid Office 365 subscribers will notice they have several unique perks over on-premise Office 2019 users, including an Editor in Word, Designer in PowerPoint, Ideas in Excel, real-time collaboration across all apps, shared computer licensing, continual feature updates, and more. Jarvis download for mac. Microsoft said it plans to do additional releases post Office 2019, despite its primary focus of moving customers to Office 365. Is Office 2019 different from Office 2016?

For Office for Mac, you can have up to 25 licenses associated with the same Microsoft account: only one license for an Office 365 subscription and multiple one-time-use installs of Office for Mac Home and Student or Home and Business. If you have multiple Mac licenses associated with the same Microsoft account, it's best to start with an Office 365 subscription.

A one-time-use license can not be deactivated. If you don’t have an Office 365 subscription, start by using the license at the top of the list and moving your way down. There isn't a way to track your one-time licenses so we recommend you keep a list as to which license is activated on which device. If you don’t remember which license was used, you'll have to go through a process of elimination to determine which ones you've used so far.