Microsoft is also reducing the extended support period for Office 2019 from 5 years to 2 years to align with the support period for Office 2016. Office Server will continue to support MSI installs, though. C2R offers more manageability of installs, especially, while deploying across en masse across the organization. Also, the company is moving away from the standard MSI installs and will be servicing only Click-to-Run (C2R) installs moving forward.
Many organizations and even home users are still on Windows 7 and, therefore, will be out of Office 2019's purview. Microsoft said that the next perpetual releases of Office, Office 2019 will ship in H2 2018 and will be supported on the following Windows versions. Also, from January 14, 2020, Office 365 ProPlus will not work on the following Windows versions. To that effect, Office 365 ProPlus will not be supported on Windows 10 Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) releases that are not being serviced. Microsoft is looking to align Office 365 ProPlus and Windows 10 releases for a more efficiently managed experience. Those using Version 1607 and above (Enterprise and Education) are also eligible for paid servicing options for longer support. Home and Pro users will be on the normal support cycle. It should be noted that the new servicing applies only to the Enterprise and Education SKUs. The table below lists the new support cadence for Windows 10 releases. Given the biannual release cycle of major Windows 10 versions, the extended service period will give enterprises more time to evaluate new releases while providing security and performance updates to existing versions. The company has added a six month servicing extension for all Windows 10 versions starting with the Windows 10 November Update (Version 1511).
In light of many enterprises choosing to deploy Windows 10, Microsoft has made some changes to the servicing of the operating system.
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