It also means the next time a new version of Office is released, you’d have to pay again to upgrade. It will likely guarantee access to the 2021 version of Office apps including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. However, Microsoft only confirmed that details about the official names, pricing, and availability of all these products “will be coming later.” Still, this offers hope for those who believed that Office 2019 might be the last perpetual version of Office.īut what does this mean? As a perpetual release, this version of Office would be a one-time purchase. This version of Office, which isn’t based on a subscription model, is the follow-up to Office 2019, which can be purchased as a one-time free offer.Ĭontinuing on the pattern of one perpetual release every three years, this version of Office should be similar to Office 2019, and Office 2016 which proceeded it. In one sentence contained in a blog post, Microsoft confirmed that the next stand-alone perpetual version of Office to Windows and MacOS will be coming in the second half of 2021.
