We will also continue to offer one-time purchases of those apps to consumers and businesses via Office 2021 and Office LTSC plans. No, as part of Microsoft 365 you will continue to get access to apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Microsoft answered the question, 'Is Office going away entirely?', in the Microsoft App FAQ as follows: Everything else, though, is getting the 'Microsoft 365' imprimatur.

The drama of the Office name swap is further tamped down by this Microsoft 365 App FAQ, which explained that its perpetual-license Office products (sometimes called 'boxed' products), such as Office 2021 for consumers and small businesses, will still use the Office branding. The page flatly declares that 'Office is becoming Microsoft 365.' The actual application products (such as Excel, PowerPoint and Word), though, aren't changing with this declaration. It has published this landing page for a new and coming Microsoft 365 App and replacement. The source of Office product name-change news is Microsoft itself. Name-change sleuths have discovered that Microsoft is axing the Office brand name in favor of 'Microsoft 365.'Īlso popping up this week during the Microsoft Ignite event is a new 'O' logo for Office products, which are now switching to become Microsoft 365 products for the most part.

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