Mr.Talha Posted November 28, 2021 Posted November 28, 2021 The release of Office 365 in 2011 saw Microsoft take its productivity software in a new direction. For the first time, the likes of Word, PowerPoint and Excel would now be available as part of a subscription service. The big attraction of this was regular updates, with Office apps previously getting one big update every few years. Less than five years after launching, Office 365 was named as the most po[CENSORED]r enterprise cloud service. It's since been rebranded to Microsoft 365, but still offers the same core service that many people have come to rely on. This includes Outlook, OneDrive and Microsoft Teams. Despite this success, Microsoft still releases standalone versions of all its powerful Office apps every few years. These are simply known as 'Office' followed by the year of release, with a 2021 edition having released alongside Windows 11. Here's everything you need to know. In an official blog post from February 2021, Microsoft 365's Corporate Vice President Jared Spataro revealed that Office 2021 would be available consumers and small businesses 'later this year'. A subsequent post from September 2021 confirmed its release date - 16 September for business users, and 5 October for consumers. It's no surprise to see a consumer version launch on the same date as Windows 11. Office 2021 will be optimised for the new operating system, despite a version also being available for macOS. The release date is is roughly in line with previous standalone versions of Office from 2019 and 2016, both of which arrived in September. In the same February 2021 blog post as above, Spataro revealed that the price of Office 2021 would be unchanged at the time of release. Indeed, it's priced identically to Office 2019:
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