Office 2016, 2019 Apps and Productivity Servers to Reach End of Support in October 2025

Microsoft is warning consumers and organizations still using Office 2016 and Office 2019 applications and servers that it will end support for these products next year on October 14, 2025. Office 2016 and 2019 already reached the end of mainstream support in October 2020 and October 2023, respectively, and October 2025 will mark the end of extended support for these two productivity suites.

For organizations still needing a perpetual version of Office that can work without an Internet connection, Office LTSC 2021 is still available, but it will reach the end of support on October 13, 2026. Microsoft already announced that Office 2024, the next perpetual version of Office is coming later this year alongside Office 2024 LTSC, which will be available as a commercial preview this month.

Both Office 2024 and Office 2024 LTSC will get 5 years of support on Windows 10 and Windows 11, but Microsoft said that they will only offer a subset of new features including meeting creation options and search enhancements in Outlook, dynamic charts and arrays in Excel, and more. However, Office LTSC 2024 won’t support cloud-based features such as real-time collaboration and AI-driven automation.

For organizations currently using the 2016 or 2019 versions of Exchange Server, Microsoft has already announced that the next version will be released in the second half of 2025. The company recommends customers who want to continue running Exchanger Server on-premises to move to Exchange Server 2019, which will offer an in-place upgrade to the next version when it becomes available.