Office 2019 and Windows 10, important changes are announced, balance sheet

With the release of Windows 10 Redstone 4 coming up, Microsoft has made some changes to its licenses and confirmed that Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10.

Redmond shared information about its new license policy for Windows 10. It concerns its partners and the way in which the distribution of Windows 10 will be organized. Several versions are planned in order to address different configurations. Pricing ranges from $ 25 for entry-level to $ 101 for the most advanced edition.

The firm differentiates its offers according to the hardware present with Entry, Value, Core, Core + and Advanced licenses. These new offers will be effective from April 2nd.

Entry: ≤ 4GB RAM and ≤ 32GB SSD and ≤1 "(NB), ≤ 11.6" (2 in 1 and tablet), ≥ 17 "for AIO

Value: Intel Atom / Celeron / Pentium ≤ 4GB RAM and ≤64GB SSD and ≤1 "(EM ≤ 4GB RAM and ≤64GB SSD or ≤ 500GB HDD)

Core: Can not be used on devices that meet Core + and Advanced hardware specifications

Core +: High-end processor and> 4 GB RAM (regardless of format) or ≥8 GB RAM and ≥1080p (NB, 2in1, AiO) or> 8 GB RAM and ≥2TB HDD or SSD (PC Desktop)

Advanced: Intel Core i9 or Core i7 ≥ 6 Cores or AMD Threadripper or Intel Core i7 and> 16GB Gold AMD FX / Ryzen7 and> 16GB or ≥ 4K.

Office 2019, only for Windows 10

The giant confirms that its Office 2019 office suite will only work on Windows 10 and the next LTSC version of Windows Server. We had talked about this information a few days ago.

Added to this is a significant change in maintenance time. From 10 years old, she drops to 5 years for traditional support and then 2 years for extended support. The firm will also limit its distribution with a Click-to-Run installer. However, there is an MSI installer for server applications.

All this shows that Microsoft is trying to accelerate the disappearance of its older versions of Windows especially Windows 7. The firm to two years to minimize its community. Normally Windows 7 will be discontinued in January 2020.