It will be supported with security updates and bug fixes, as needed, until October 13, 2020. Office 2016 for Mac is a version of Office that’s available as a one-time purchase from a retail store or through a volume licensing agreement. Office support endSeptember 2018 release. A product won't receive any new features or changes anymore, and updates will focus on fixing security issues and major stability issues only. Extended support starts right after mainstream support ends.
![]() Office 2016 Desktop Release Date Code Patch ThatYou make all the same decisions, manually initiate all the same operations that your grandparents might have done almost 30 years ago using equipment that is 1000X more powerful.Microsoft software is a service with no guaranty and no warranty. It’s not terrible it kinda, sorta works.Or rather it makes you work, and in the same way that the first users did. Other than cosmetics, it hasn’t changed what it does or how it provides services to the user since it was first installed on a hard drive. While it has been around since the 1980’s it’s not a particularly good one, just omnipresent. And having a better spell checker helps everyone and not just folks that need the assistance with spelling.Also it looks like Firefox is using the same code base/dictionary(Spelling only) that TDF has created/uses as it gets confused often by my attempts at spelling, so loads of cutting and pasting into Google’s search engine for some contextual help as my brain’s spelling processor needs a microcode patch that may be possible some time in the future but for now is not available.Most people think that Microsoft Office is a product.It’s actually easier to buy a new computer with it pre-installed, than to install new version.I tried other office suites, from WordPerfect, shareware and “open” software, and frankly didn’t see any significant difference between them in basic functionality. The product that originally came on a handful of floppy discs now needs DVD-ROMS or a very fast network to install it. The periodic version “upgrades”weren’t, and the amount of time I spent per month not being able to work as patches were installed was ridiculous.After the last 2 “upgrades” I became aware that I didn’t need most of what Microsoft Office can do, even when I do a “minimal ” installation. The only reason that it isn’t more apparent is that the computers we use today are more than 1000x faster. Office’s primary advantage was cost, it’s secondary was a uniform user interface.I used Office for +20 years and never ceased to be amazed that year after year the number of newly patched bugs has never declined and the continues to grow grew in length and frequency. If you have a problem with that service, then service yourself.I started office work with WordStar, Lotus 123, Ventura Publisher and dBase years before I used Microsoft Office.Microsoft is counting on you.If Microsoft copies Google’s approach to software deployment and maintenance, embraces distributed computing, and dials back or turns the specialized functions into on-demand call-up instead of dynamically hidden bloated code, some form of Microsoft’s cash cow might survive.But it’s going to be hard to do when their competition is delivering +90% of the functionality that 90% of the users need, free and effortlessly. If you want to keep buying genetically new obese pigs with congenital diseases in pokes, because “everyone has one”, then you will. If a service provider has sold you a defective service, the provider should do all the remedial work, not the customer. It just works.How? I know but who cares? Do you know how your TV set works, your TV box, or laptop? Why should anyone need to update software, tinker and patch a computer’s software to keep it running so their privacy and security aren’t compromised, or stand around while it is being done?You shouldn’t. The biggest difference is that I can forget about “software” and get right to work with no interruptions for patches, updates, “upgrades”. There were a very few things that I had to learn to do differently, but none were difficult. At that point, I will completely cut-over to Linux and open-source applications. Anti-virus/malware, for which Windows is already stealing the competition’s lunch.I bought 2019 licenses for a few products and I plan on running them until subscription-based costs are the only offer on tap. There is no justification for paying ~$150 per year for an application that is provided by an O/S, e.g. Part of the sticker shock is that some software companies seem to have an unrealistic opinion of the economic utility of their products. The estimate was mostly based on current costs for M$, Adobe, Intuit and a few utilities, and standard/pro price differentials. I made a (very) rough estimate of the annual costs involved with changing my current software inventory to subscription-based and potentially it could reach $2K annually. Dmg mod darkest dungeonPrivate and public-sector organizations will remain hostages to the software companies but may even lead the change to open-source provided their IT administration can support the change.
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