Office 365 as an “Alternate Office 2016” TimelineĮssentially, when Microsoft split the Office software model into two, it split the Office timeline creating an alternate Office 2016. And here is where the point of confusion begins for many (and why it matters). So, for office workers who are just handed a machine with Office 2016 installed on it, they have no idea what their company did–buy Office 2016 (the old school way) or subscribe to the new service. These applications are still called PowerPoint 2016, even though you are an Office 365 subscriber. And with that subscription service you will get a lot of applications, not just the core few, and all the new updates and features as they are announced, without having to wait until the next release-but, the thing is, you get these new features inside your Office 2016 labeled application. You don’t really buy it-you subscribe to it. That is the traditional software model of the past.īut then Microsoft announced a “new way” to purchase software, a subscription model, like Netflix. If you wanted new “features” for the software, you would have to wait until the next release was announced (in this case, Office 2019) and buy that software when that software is made available for purchase. You bought the software like you bought Office 2010, installed it. It was just like any other Office release from the past. When Microsoft created Office 2016, nothing was out of the ordinary. So, maybe it’s time to channel my favorite white-haired doctor. So now, I am thinking maybe my old explanation is just not working (or at least not catching the eye of some folks).
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