But, as our previous blog highlights, they released a statement in September 2018, extending this support for 3 years to 2023. Microsoft had originally planned for this change to impact Office 2016 users or older. Security risks will develop and of course, they may find that they are out of compliance with industry specific or cyber security regulatory standards by using unsupported systems.

Users may begin to experience both performance and reliability issues. Outlook, OneDrive for Business and Skype for Business. While Microsoft won’t block users of Office 2013 and Office 2010 from using Office 365 services, some features will no longer work i.e. In this case, users do not buy the product outright instead, they pay a monthly or annual per user fee to use the services.

Office 365 refers to Microsoft’s subscription services. However, Microsoft is now moving towards a subscription model for cloud based services. A perpetual license of Office refers to the installation of Office on a single PC – you pay once and in theory you can use that license forever on that PC. Some users still prefer the payment terms of an upfront capital expenditure over a monthly subscription per user fee model. This change will impact a lot of SME customers who still use Office perpetual licenses.

Their official recommendation is that Office 2013 (or older) users migrate to Office 365 ProPlus or upgrade to Office 2019. This means Microsoft will no longer support Office 2013 user connections to commercial Office 365 services. From 13 th October 2020, Microsoft will only support Office 365 connectivity from Office 365 ProPlus subscription users or Office perpetual users with a version that is still in mainstream support. However, there are other significant changes scheduled for later in the year. The end of support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 in January will impact a huge number of users. Several core Microsoft services will reach their ‘end of life’ stage during 2020.

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