#Microsoft office 2016 support chat update#

Perhaps this is to emphasize to Office 365 tenants that the days of perpetual licensing for the Office desktop applications are ending.

#Microsoft office 2016 support chat update#

MicrosoftвЂ™s update says, вЂњ Support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 connections to Office 365 cloud services will continue until October 2023.вЂќ This is the end of mainstream support for Office 2019 and itвЂ™s curious that they use the same date for both versions. Finally, without security updates for older clients, a higher risk exists that an attack will succeed through a weakness fixed in a current version. In addition, the deprecation of basic authentication for many connection protocols for Exchange Online means that all clients must use modern authentication. In other words, after October 13, 2020, you can continue using Outlook 2013 to connect to Exchange Online, but youвЂ™re on your own and shouldnвЂ™t be surprised if some feature stops working or the client connects intermittently or not at all.

Then they said that вЂњ it will be required to have Office 365 ProPlus (now Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise) or Office perpetual in mainstream support to connect to Office 365 services.вЂќ Now they say that theyвЂ™ll will not take вЂњ any active measures to block older Office clients, such as Office 2013 and Office 2010, from connecting to Office 365 services.вЂќ The bite is in the comment that вЂњ legacy clientsвЂ¦may experience performance and reliability issues.вЂќ We Told You Things Will Break Microsoft has softened their line a little since 2017. The original end-of-support announcement was in April 2017, so no one should be surprised at this point. TheyвЂ™ve just republished the notification as MC218020 to remind everyone that the date is approaching and itвЂ™s time to act.

Microsoft originally published Office 365 notification MC190854 in September 2019 to advise tenants that support will end for Office 2013 client connections to Office 365 applications on October 13, 2020. Choice Between Click to Run and Browser AppsДЄ Reminder About the Demise of Office 2013.A Reminder About the Demise of Office 2013.