Without access to the cloud, Office LTSC will include only a subset of the value found in Microsoft 365 Apps, building on the features included in past releases. Both products will be supported for five years, and both the next perpetual version of Office LTSC and Windows 10 LTSC will be released in the second half of this calendar year. Both Office LTSC and Windows 10 LTSC will remain governed by the Fixed Lifecycle Policy. With this release, we will bring Office and Windows into alignment in support of the same limited scenarios.

The good news is that you can deploy both Office LTSC and the Microsoft 365 version of Office with the same deployment tools. We expect that most customers who use Office LTSC won’t do it across their entire organization, but only in specific scenarios. 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. A specialty product for specific scenarios A commercial preview of Microsoft Office LTSC will be available in April. And now, I’m pleased to provide an update on Microsoft Office Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), the next perpetual release of Office. We also reviewed new management capabilities that have come to Microsoft 365 over the past 18 months to help IT admins ensure their businesses are secure, and their people can work with confidence from anywhere. But we also know that some customers just feel that they can’t move to the cloud despite the widely embraced benefits.Įarlier today, we announced new capabilities that enable customers to unlock the value of Microsoft 365 even if they rely on shared workstations or devices that must be offline for months at a time.

We’ve seen incredible cloud adoption across every industry, and we will continue to invest and innovate in the cloud as we partner with organizations everywhere to build the best solutions for the new world of work. Overwhelmingly, our customers are choosing the cloud to empower their people-from frontline workers on the shop floor, to on-the-go sales teams, to remote employees connecting from home. At Microsoft, we believe that the cloud will power the work of the future.

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