Applies to Office 365 commercial services only.

Office 365 ProPlus will deliver the best experience, but for customers who aren’t ready to move to the cloud by 2020, we will also support connections from Office perpetual in mainstream support. Starting October 13, 2020, it will be required to have Office 365 ProPlus or Office perpetual in mainstream support to connect to Office 365 services.

Office 365 ProPlus or Office perpetual in mainstream support required to connect to Office 365 services.

To ensure that customers are getting the most out of their Office 365 subscription, we are updating our system requirements. And the end user experience in the apps is limited to the features shipped at a point in time.

The IT benefits-particularly security-are cut short. When customers connect to Office 365 with a legacy version of Office, they’re not enjoying all that the service has to offer. And advanced security services can protect users as they work. When a modern app is connected to a modern service, magic happens. For end users, ProPlus brings the Office 365 services to life. And because the apps are cloud-connected and always up-to-date, they’re continually getting better-with new security features, new telemetry and new management capabilities. For IT, ProPlus delivers the most secure and most complete suite of productivity apps available. Office 365 ProPlus is the very best way to experience the Office 365 services. Changes to the Office 365 system requirements

Today, we’re making three important announcements related to ProPlus: changes to the Office 365 system requirements improvements to the ProPlus update model, including alignment with Windows 10 and new tools and programs to manage ProPlus application compatibility. Office 365 ProPlus delivers cloud-connected and always up-to-date versions of our most valuable enterprise apps. Today’s post was written by Ron Markezich, corporate vice president for the Office commercial marketing team.

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