Microsoft Announces Office 2021 for Mac and Windows Coming Later This Year

Admin February 19, 2021

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Microsoft has announced that Office 2021 will be released for Mac and Windows later this year. There will be a version for commercial customers called Microsoft Office LTSC and a version for consumers. Both are targeted at users who don’t want to subscribe to a cloud product.

We’ve seen incredible cloud adoption across every industry, and we will continue to invest and innovate in the cloud as we partner with organizations everywhere to build the best solutions for the new world of work. But we also know that some customers just feel that they can’t move to the cloud despite the widely embraced benefits.

A commercial preview of Microsoft Office LTSC will be available in April. New Office LTSC features will include accessibility improvements, capabilities like Dynamic Arrays and XLOOKUP in Excel, dark mode support across multiple apps, and performance improvements across Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. The next version of Office will not ship with the Skype for Business client app, which will be available as a download in the Microsoft Download Center. It will ship with the Microsoft Teams app, allowing customers to enable and trial this experience if they so choose.

Little information about the consumer version of Office 365 was provided.

We also plan to release Office 2021 for personal and small business use later this year. Office 2021 will also be supported for five years with the traditional “one-time purchase” model. We do not plan to change the price for these products at the time of the release. We will announce more details about new features included in Office 2021 closer to general availability.