Since then, perpetual Office 2019 has remained static, while Office 365/Microsoft 365 has continued to get new features. When Office 2019 was released three years later, it included some, but by no means all, of the features that Office 365 had at that time. But the two soon diverged: Microsoft began rolling out new features to Office 365 that the perpetual Office 2016 version didn’t get.

When Office 2016 was first released in late 2015, the perpetual version and the Office 365 version had the same features. Office 365/Microsoft 365 subscribers pay ongoing fees to use the software, while buyers of the perpetual version pay a one-time fee and own it forever. Before we get into those new features, though, let’s look at how Microsoft has differentiated its subscription and non-subscription versions of Office.įor years now, Microsoft has been pushing the subscription version of its office suite - known as Office 365 or Microsoft 365, depending on the license - over the non-subscription version, which it calls the “perpetual” version of Office. The enterprise and consumer Office 2021 versions have a similar set of new features. IPad (9th Generation), iPad (8th Generation), iPad (7th Generation), iPad (6th Generation), iPad (5th Generation), iPad Air (4th Generation), iPad Air (3rd Generation), iPad Air 2, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini 4, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd Generation), iPad Pro 12-inch (1st and 2nd Generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd Generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd Generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (1st Generation), iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, MacBook Air (M1 Chip), MacBook Air (Retina), MacBook Air (Non-Retina), MacBook Pro 13' (Retina Display), MacBook Pro 13' (M1 Chip), MacBook Pro 13' (USB-C) 2020, MacBook Pro 13' (Touch Bar), MacBook Pro 13' (2017), MacBook Pro 13', MacBook Pro 14' (2021), MacBook Pro 16' (2021), MacBook Pro 16' (2019), MacBook Pro 15' (Touch Bar), MacBook Pro 15' (Retina Display), Mac mini (M1, 2020), Mac Pro, iMac Pro, iMac 27-inch (Retina 5K), iMac 24-inch (Retina 4.5K), iMac 21.5-inch (Retina 4K), iMac 27-inch, iMac 21.Two weeks after releasing Office LTSC 2021, the new non-subscription version of its office suite for enterprises, Microsoft has released Office 2021 for consumers, students, and small businesses.

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