The rumors have now turn into info. This follows hypothesis that Microsoft would supply the most recent model of Office (officially Microsoft 365) not solely as a subscription, but in addition as a one-off buy once more. Well, Microsoft has made it official!

The subsequent model of Microsoft 365 (aka Microsoft Office) might be launched later in 2024. In addition to Microsoft providing it as a one-off buy, there can even be a Mac model of this system and it’ll assist each 32- and 64-bit variations. Here’s what we find out about it:

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Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium ESD

In a blog post concerning the upcoming preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024, the corporate emphasizes which you could purchase Microsoft Office 365 2024 and use it completely. Of course, this solely is sensible till the tip of assist after 5 years. Once assist ends, you’ll now not obtain any safety updates for Microsoft Office 2024, making it unsafe to make use of.

This assertion solely applies to Office LTSC, i.e. a variant of Microsoft Office that’s supposed for industrial clients and public authorities. For non-public customers, nevertheless, the query of whether or not Microsoft will launch Office 2024 as a non-subscription model is rather more thrilling. And the weblog publish does certainly address this:

“We also plan to release a new version of Office for home users later this year, Office 2024, which will also be supported for five years with the traditional ‘one-time purchase’ model. We have no plans to change the price of these products at the time of release. We will provide more details on the new features in Office 2024 shortly before general availability.”

Here’s what you’ll be able to count on from the most recent Microsoft Office 364:

• The subsequent model of Microsoft Office 364 for dwelling customers will launch in 2024 as Office 2024
• Microsoft will present updates for the subsequent 5 years
• You should purchase Microsoft Office 365 as a one-off cost
• Office 2024 can even be launched for macOS
• Office 2024 helps Windows 10, besides on ARM units
• Office 2024 helps 32-bit
• The value stays unchanged

Microsoft Office Home and Business 2021, value comparability

If you’re in favor of the subscription mannequin with annual prices or the variant with a one-off cost and no follow-up value, the brand new features are solely obtainable for the subscription mannequin, the one-off cost model solely receives safety and restore updates.

The preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 might be obtainable for testers in April 2024. Microsoft is discontinuing Microsoft Publisher and Teams is lacking as a result of the corporate is making Teams available for download separately.

This article first appeared on PCWelt and has been translated from German to English.