But it won’t get all the bells and whistles of Microsoft 365 - here’s a sample of the novelties built into this one-time purchase version of Office: Office LTSC will be 10% more expensive than before and will get five years of support. We have built Office LTSC for a limited set of specific situations: regulated devices that cannot accept feature updates for years at a time, process control devices on the manufacturing floor that are not connected to the internet, and specialty systems that must stay locked in time and require a long-term servicing channel. LTSC, short for Long Term Servicing Channel, will target those enterprise consumers who can’t get on the cloud version or don’t need it: Microsoft said as much when describing Office LTSC. But Microsoft 365 will likely continue to be the primary development focus for the company. Microsoft has not announced all the Office 2021 features, saying they’ll be released later down the road. The new release will support Windows and Mac, just as before, and come with 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It’ll be supported for five years and will cost just as much as Microsoft Office 2019. In a blog post on Thursday, Microsoft announced that Office 2021 for consumers and small business would be released later this year.

Microsoft Office 2021 will launch later this year with a version called Microsoft Office LTSC targeting specific businesses that do not need the power of the cloud that backs the Office 365 suite. Microsoft just announced it’ll continue to support those customers for the foreseeable future, whether they’re home or enterprise users. Or they might not want to pay a monthly fee for access when a one-time license purchase will do. However, some customers might not need all that.

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