3/14/2021 0 Comments Office2008
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld.Support for Office for Mac 2008 will end April 9, 2013, Microsofts Mac Business Unit (MacBU), the firms OS X development arm, said in a post on the teams blog Thursday.According to the companys support lifecycle site, all versions of the 2008 suite will be retired next week.Office for Mac 2008 launched Jan.
Microsoft supports the Windows versions of Office, even those that target consumers, for 10 years, or twice as long as it does Office for the Mac. Office Home and Student 2007, for example, which launched in late January 2007, a full year before Office for Mac 2008 appeared, will be supported until October 2017, more than four years from now. The older Office Student and Teacher 2003 retires down the road, too, in April 2014, alongside Windows XP. Even the Mac suite thats clearly business-oriented, Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition, loses support in a few days. Office for Mac 2008 will not suddenly stop working next week; it will launch, and let users create, edit and print documents. But it will not be served with security updates after April 9. At the same time it categorizes all editions of Office on OS X as consumer products. On its support lifecycle FAQ, Microsoft explains support for business and consumer software. Microsoft will offer a minimum of 10 years of support for Business and Developer products, the company says. The speedy retirement of Office for Mac 2008 is not new: Users faced the same five-year support lifespan for Office for Mac 2004, which was shut down in January 2012. Admittedly, that was over two years later than the original deadline. But Microsofts last-minute reprieve of Office for Mac 2004 was a one-time deal, as the MacBU made plain at the time. This extension does not change the five-year support policy for other Office for Mac products, including future versions, a senior product manager said then. Microsoft extended support for Office for Mac 2004 to allow its users, many of whom relied on Visual Basic-based macros, time to migrate to the impending Office for Mac 2011, which launched in October 2010. Office for Mac 2008 dropped support for Visual Basic macros, but that support was restored in Office for Mac 2011. Yesterday, MacBU recommended that customers running Office for Mac 2004 migrate to Office 365, the line of subscription plans that lets users install Office for Mac Home Business 2011 on up to five Macs. The consumer subscription plan, Office 365 Home Premium, costs 100 per year. Office2008 License Of OfficeThey can also opt for a perpetual license of Office for Mac 2011, the traditional kind that is paid for once, but can be used as long as wanted. Office for Mac Home and Student lists for 140, while the for-commercial-use Home and Business sells for 220. Customers, however, have less than three more years before Office for Mac 2011 falls off Microsofts support list in January 2016.
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