Office 2021

Office 2021 delivers features across apps to help users create amazing content in less time.

***THIS PRODUCT REQUIRES WINDOWS 10***

Office for everyone

For many customers, Office 365 is the way to go. However, going to the cloud is a journey, and our customers may be in different stages of that journey. To support those customers, we have Office 2021, a valuable new release of Office with a subset of features from Office 365.
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Office 2021
for those who can’t be cloud-connected
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Office 2021 provides a set of valuable enhancements for customers who can’t be cloud-connected or receive regular updates. The new enhancements in Office 2021 are a subset of a long list of features that have been added to Office 365 ProPlus over the last three years. It provides new features and updates to the on-premises apps for both users and IT professionals.

Office 365 –
continuous cloud-powered innovation
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Office 365 ProPlus, the cloud-connected version of Office, delivers the most productive and most secure Office experience—with the lowest total cost of ownership for deployment and management. Office 365 ProPlus delivers continuous cloud-powered innovation for increased productivity, better security, and the lowest TCO.

Office 365 is always-up-to-date version of the Office apps, and subscribers already have a version of Office that has all the functionality that’s in Office 2021 and more.

Available for PC and Mac users

Office applications are customized for each platform. The Office applications available for Mac users and the specific features that are included may differ from those available for PC users.
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For PC users
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For Mac users
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The lowest TCO for deployment

Office 365 ProPlus delivers the most productive and most secure Office experience – with the lowest TCO for deployment and management.

Updates to servers

The 2021 release of Office products also includes updates to our servers:
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Exchange Server 2021

Skype for Business Server 2021

SharePoint Server 2021

Project Server 2021

The next-generation productivity suite

Office 2021 delivers features across apps to help users create amazing content in less time.
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Improved Office apps

Office 2021 is the next on-premises version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher.

OneNote is absent from the suite as the UWP version of OneNote bundled with Windows 10 replaces it. OneNote 2021 can be installed as an optional feature on the Office Installer.

New IT value

Office 2021 also includes new IT value for enhanced security and streamlined administration.
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Reduce costs and improve security

We introduced Click-to-Run (C2R), a modern deployment technology, in Office 2013, and it’s now used to deploy and update Office across hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. With Office 2021, we’re moving the on-premises versions of Office to C2R to reduce costs and improve security.

Enterprise-focused management capabilities

C2R offers the same enterprise-focused management capabilities as Microsoft Installer (MSI) based products and will also support an in-place upgrade when you move to Office 2021 from older MSI-based products. The advantages of C2R include predictable:

monthly security updates

up-to-date apps on installation

reduced network consumption*

easy upgrade path to Office 365 ProPlus

* Reduced network consumption through Windows 10 download optimization technology.

Pick the best version of Office for you

Compare Office 2021 and Office 365 ProPlus.
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FeatureOffice 2021Office 365 ProPlus
Real-time presence??
@Mentions in Outlook??
Real-time co-authoring??
Chat with co-authors within documents??
@Mentions in Word, Excel, PowerPoint??
Shared with Me??
Office 365 Groups??
MRU (Most Recently Used)??
Simplified Ribbon Menu across apps??

Support

Office 2021 will receive 5 years of mainstream support, but will only get two years of extended support.
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Office 2021 is a one-time purchase and does not receive feature updates after you purchase it. Office 2021 includes a meaningful subset of features that are found in Office 365, but it’s not part of Office 365. Office 2021 will receive quality and security updates as required.