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Microsoft is killing Office 2021 in October to push you onto Microsoft 365, how to fight back
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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For real. My entire family is using it now.
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it isn't being "killed", it's just EOL, on schedule. the death-blow comes if windows version has a similar digital certificate expiry baked-in like office mac does. which would be a first on windows, because old (even really old) office versions do still work--just don't get security fixes once EOL.
Good to see the correct response to this post. Nothing about what they are doing is off. Im still using office 2019 personally since i got it really cheap like a year before it went EOL. I use it so infrequently for personal use it doesnt bother me, but its nice to have.
On top of this there is office 2024 which if you did still need to move to another version thats equivlant then this is what you want. I am honestly shocked more people dont just buy the stand alone office over 365 subscriptions. Is it because Microsoft stopped advertising that they exist? 1 time fee over monthly anyday.
Is it because Microsoft stopped advertising that they exist?
yea. pretty much. they certainly don't make it known that it does exist.
1 time fee over monthly anyday.
as far as pricing. if you're gonna pay for cloud storage somewhere, anyway..
i know it kinda sucks ass, but you're basically paying for that extra onedrive space and getting office 'free' while you do.
so it does make sense for some users.
but for the love of clippy, don't share a cheaper 1 user/5pc 'personal' plan with other people because they also share your onedrive space. that can get messy and/or really awkward, really fast. get the one you can share with other users and add their msa to your 365 sub.
I absolutely agree if you need cloud storage it could be worth it, but I definetly don't. I am pretty dull, local storage and backup to a NAS is fine for my simple life haha.
I'm the only person in the world that still uses Publisher, and they've announced the end of support for that, too, at the same time, I assume. I don't use it for anything online, I just use it to create documents and posters and stuff, and I never use online resources.
I don't expect anything from them, and I don't hook it up to the Internet, so it will keep working, right?
publisher just flat-out got the axe. it's even getting taken away from '365' subscribers in a few months. i have a few users that will be affected. they are not happy campers.
if you have it as part of your particular edition and version of (perpetual) office, yea. it should continue to function.