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1. #HOW MUCH LONGER WILL MICROSOFT SUPPORT OFFICE 2010 LICENSE#
2. #HOW MUCH LONGER WILL MICROSOFT SUPPORT OFFICE 2010 PLUS#
3. #HOW MUCH LONGER WILL MICROSOFT SUPPORT OFFICE 2010 WINDOWS 7#

Microsoft favors Office 365 openly over Office 2019 the company does not want customers to buy Office 2019 but subscribe to Office 365 instead. Office 2019 won't change over time Microsoft won't release new features or changes other than security and bug fix updates for the desktop version Office 365 evolves continuously on the other hand. 2020 will be a major year for many users and organizations as support for two core Microsoft products runs out.

#HOW MUCH LONGER WILL MICROSOFT SUPPORT OFFICE 2010 WINDOWS 7#

The following table lists recent desktop Office products and end of mainstream and extended support for each of the products.Īs you can see, Office 2010 support ends next year nine months after support for Windows 7 ends. A product won't receive any new features or changes anymore, and updates will focus on fixing security issues and major stability issues only.

It lasts five years, usually, and means that a product will receive security and non-security updates, and that product design and feature changes may be released.Įxtended support starts right after mainstream support ends. And the Click-2-Run (C2R) packages are also supposed to still work regarding activation.Īnd as a follow-up question: There is the possibility to backup an activation file and save it back after a new Office installation.Mainstream support starts right after product release.

#HOW MUCH LONGER WILL MICROSOFT SUPPORT OFFICE 2010 LICENSE#

Question: are there similar affected parties – and what type of license (retail or volume) could no longer be activated? It may be that only MAK keys are affected, while Office 2010 can still be activated against a Key Management Server (KMS key required). The phone activation example cited above was likely a retail package, the Twitter example referenced above was related to a MAK key. Regardless of whether support for Office 2010 has expired, I'm wondering if the above examples are isolated cases, or if the activation infrastructure has been/is being shut down, and whether it affects retail or volume licenses. This again shows the ugly side of Microsoft Office: If Microsoft thinks that the support has expired, they are able to refuse the re-activation – so the product can no longer be used. I am now sitting on several Prof and Business licenses that I can no longer use, but were officially purchased years ago for the company. The reason was the end of support and support also means activation. In mid-July 2021, German blog reader Steffen left this comment on the German blog post Office 2010: Telefonaktivierung eingestellt? – Merkwürdigkeit II (I've translated the German text):Īfter 10 minutes of discussion on the phone with an employee was made clear to me that an activation is no longer possible under any circumstances. People had to do a phone activation because the online activation didn't work anymore.

I had already addressed the issue of Microsoft Office 2010 activation within my German blog blog in 2017.

Besides, not everyone wants this C2R technology on their machine (see Office: Instabilities/crashes due to C2R and MSI parallel installation?). And a Facebook user wrote that an activation with C2R still works – but I'm not sure if a key can be used for an MSI installation with Click-to-Run (C2R). It could also be a Linux-based KMS server, as I read on Facebook at a feedback to my German copy of this article. Notes: Activating a KMS key against a Key Management Server probably still works, as I interpret above tweet right. So there, too, activation seems to be denied by Microsoft. Tobias answered that he uses a volume license with a multi-activation key (MAK) for his Microsoft Office 2010. German blog reader Karl says in the following reply tweet: No longer works.

#HOW MUCH LONGER WILL MICROSOFT SUPPORT OFFICE 2010 PLUS#

The German tweet above says, he could not activate Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, either online nor via telephone activation. German blog reader Tobias has now had the unpleasant experience that this required activation no longer works – neither the online activation, nor a telephone activation, as he shares on Twitter. The company has simply switched off the activation servers that are required for Office 2010 activation. Unfortunately, some users who bought Microsoft Office 2010, haven't calced without Microsoft. Should be no problem for a regular buyer who owns a key. To be able to use Microsoft Office 2010 after a new installation, it must be activated by Microsoft. Microsoft Office 2010 needs to be activated