Microsoft Office 2019

Last updated

Microsoft Office 2019
Developer(s) Microsoft
Initial releaseSeptember 24, 2018 (US),
October 1, 2018 (EU/UK),
October 6, 2018 (India) [1]
Stable release(s) [±]
RetailVersion 2312 (Build 17126.20132) / January 9, 2024;58 days ago (2024-01-09) [2]
Volume licensedVersion 1808 (Build 10406.20006) / January 9, 2024;58 days ago (2024-01-09) [2]
Office for Mac16.81 (24011420) / January 16, 2024;51 days ago (2024-01-16) [3]
Operating system Windows 10 1809 or later
Windows 11 until 23H2
Windows Server 2019 or later [4]
Platform IA-32, x64, ARM, Web
Predecessor Microsoft Office 2016 (2015)
Successor Microsoft Office 2021 (2021)
Available in102 languages [5]
List of languages
  • Full (40): English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (Latin), Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin, Serbia), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
  • Partial (51): Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani (Latin), Bangla (Bangladesh), Bangla (Bengali India), Basque (Basque), Belarusian, Bosnian (Latin), Catalan, Dari, Filipino, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Icelandic, Irish, Kannada, Khmer, KiSwahili, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian (Republic of Macedonia), Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Norwegian Nynorsk, Odia, Persian (Farsi), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Quechua, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia & Herzegovina), Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia), Sindhi (Arabic), Sinhala, Tamil, Tatar (Cyrillic), Telugu, Turkmen (Latin), Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek (Latin), Valencian, Welsh
  • Proofing only (11): Hausa, Igbo, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Kinyarwanda, Pashto, Romansh, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, Wolof, Yoruba
Type Office suite
License Trialware, software as a service
Website office.com
Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac
Developer(s) Microsoft
Initial releaseSeptember 24, 2018;5 years ago (2018-09-24)
Operating system macOS Sierra or later [6]
Platform x64
Predecessor Microsoft Office 2016
Successor Microsoft Office 2021
Available in27 languages [7]
List of languages
English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Microsoft Office 2019 (second release codenamed Office 16) is a version of Microsoft Office for both Windows and Mac. It replaces Office 2016 and was replaced by Office 2021 on October 5, 2021. [8] It was unveiled on April 27, 2018, for Windows 10 and June 12, 2018, for macOS, and launched on September 24, 2018. [1] Some features that had previously been restricted to Office 365 subscribers are available in this release. [9] Office 2019 retains the same major version number of 16 that Office 2016 had, making it the second perpetual release of Office 16. Microsoft ended mainstream support for Office 2019 on October 10, 2023. Unlike other versions of Microsoft Office, Office 2019 will only get two years of extended support, which means that support for Office 2019 will end on the same day as support for Office 2016 and Windows 10, on October 14, 2025. [10]

Contents

History

Office 2019 Commercial Preview was released by Microsoft on April 27, 2018, providing users with a sneak peek of the latest features and enhancements tailored for Windows 10 . Subsequently, on June 12, 2018, the preview was extended to macOS users . The Commercial Preview allowed users to offer feedback, contributing to a refined final release. After the preview phase, stable versions were released for Windows 10 and macOS, solidifying Office 2019's position as a prominent productivity suite.

New features

Office 2019 includes many of the features previously published via Office 365, along with improved inking features, LaTeX support in Word, new animation features in PowerPoint including the morph and zoom features, and new formulas and charts in Excel for data analysis. [11]

OneNote is absent from the suite as the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version of OneNote bundled with Windows 10 replaces it. OneNote 2016 can be installed as an optional feature on the Office Installer. [12] [13] [14]

For Mac users, Focus Mode will be brought to Word, 2D maps will be brought to Excel and new Morph transitions, SVG support and 4K video exports will be coming to PowerPoint, among other features.

Despite being released in the same month, the new Office user interface in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook is only available to Office 365 subscribers, not perpetual Office 2019 licenses. [15] [16] [17]

Editions

Traditional editions

Like its predecessor Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 2019 has the same perpetual SKU editions aimed towards different markets. Like its predecessor, Microsoft Office 2019 contains Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote and is licensed for use on one computer. [18] [19]

5 perpetual SKU editions of Office 2019 were released for Windows:

Application(s)Home & StudentHome & BusinessStandardProfessionalProfessional Plus
Core applicationsYesYesYesYesYes
Outlook NoYesYesYesYes
Publisher NoNoYesYesYes
Access NoNoNoYesYes
Skype for Business NoNoNoNoYes

Unlike its predecessor, both Windows version retail & volume versions use the Click-to-Run (C2R) for installation. Also unlike its predecessor, all Windows version Office 2019 require only Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019.

Like its predecessor, three traditional editions of Office 2019 were released for Mac (macOS Sierra or later):

Deployment

Office 2019 requires Windows 10, Windows Server 2019 or macOS Mojave and later. [10] macOS installations can be acquired from the Microsoft website or the Mac App Store. [21]

For Office 2013 and 2016, various editions containing the client apps were available in both Click-To-Run (inspired by Microsoft App-V) and traditional Windows Installer setup formats. However, Office 2019 client apps only have a Click-to-Run installer and only the server apps have the traditional MSI installer. The Click-To-Run version has a smaller footprint; in case of Microsoft Office 2019 Pro Plus, the product requires 10 GB less than the MSI version of Office 2016 Pro Plus. [22]

Volume licensing versions of Office 2019 cannot be downloaded from Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center and must be deployed using configuration.xml and running Office Deployment Tool (ODT) from command-line. [23]

macOS Support

Office 2019 for Mac
macOS versionLast supported releaseLast update release date
macOS 11 Big Sur 16.77.1 (23091703)September 19, 2023
macOS 10.15 Catalina 16.66.2 (22102801)October 31, 2022
macOS 10.14 Mojave 16.54 (21101001)October 12, 2021
macOS 10.13 High Sierra 16.43 (20110804)November 10, 2020
macOS 10.12 Sierra 16.30 (19101301)October 15, 2019
OS X 10.11 and 10.10 16.16.27 (Office 2016)August 14, 2018

All releases can be downloaded from Microsoft's Update history for Office for Mac page.

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft Office</span> Suite of office software

Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketing term for an office suite, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, Object Linking and Embedding data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft Outlook</span> Email and calendaring software

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager software system from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft 365 software suites. Though primarily being popular as an email client for businesses, Outlook also includes functions such as calendaring, task managing, contact managing, note-taking, journal logging, web browsing, and RSS news aggregation.

Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft. It runs exclusively on Windows Server operating systems.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft Office 2003</span> Office suite by Microsoft

Microsoft Office 2003 is an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for its Windows operating system. Office 2003 was released to manufacturing on August 19, 2003, and was later released to retail on October 21, 2003, exactly two years after the release of Windows XP. It was the successor to Office XP and the predecessor to Office 2007. The Mac OS X equivalent, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac was released on May 11, 2004.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft OneNote</span> Free-form note-taking app for personal computers and smartphones

Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking software developed by Microsoft. It is available as part of the Microsoft 365 suite and since 2014 has been free on all platforms outside the suite. OneNote is designed for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users' notes, drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network.

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Skype for Business</span> Enterprise instant messaging and video conferencing software by Microsoft

Skype for Business is an enterprise software application for instant messaging and videotelephony developed by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft 365 suite. It is designed for use with the on-premises Skype for Business Server software, and a software as a service version offered as part of 365. It supports text, audio, and video chat, and integrates with Microsoft 365 components such as Exchange and SharePoint.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft Office 2010</span> 2010 version of Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office 2010 is a version of Microsoft Office for Microsoft Windows unveiled by Microsoft on May 15, 2009, and released to manufacturing on April 15, 2010, with general availability on June 15, 2010, as the successor to Office 2007 and the predecessor to Office 2013. The macOS equivalent, Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac was released on October 26, 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac</span> Productivity software

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007. Office 2008 was developed by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15, 2008. Office 2008 was followed by Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 released on October 26, 2010, requiring a Mac with an Intel processor and Mac OS version 10.5 or better. Office 2008 is also the last version to feature Entourage, which was replaced by Outlook in Office 2011. Microsoft stopped supporting Office 2008 on April 9, 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">OneDrive</span> File hosting and synchronization service operated by Microsoft

Microsoft OneDrive is a file hosting service operated by Microsoft. First released in August 2007, it allows registered users to store, share and sync their files. OneDrive also works as the storage backend of the web version of Microsoft 365 / Office. OneDrive offers 5 GB of storage space free of charge, with 100 GB, 1 TB, and 6 TB storage options available either separately or with Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mac OS X Snow Leopard</span> Seventh major version of macOS, released in 2009

Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the seventh major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

This is a history of the various versions of Microsoft Office, consisting of a bundle of several different applications which changed over time. This table only includes final releases and not pre-release or beta software. It also does not list the history of the constituent standalone applications which were released much earlier starting with Word in 1983, Excel in 1985, and PowerPoint in 1987.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft Office for Mac 2011</span> Version of Microsoft Office for Mac released in 2011

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for macOS. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Office 2010 for Windows. Office 2011 was followed by Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac released on July 9, 2015, requiring a Mac with an x64 Intel processor and OS X Yosemite or later. Office for Mac 2011 is no longer supported as of October 10, 2017. Support for Lync for Mac 2011 ended on October 9, 2018.

Microsoft Intune is a Microsoft cloud-based unified endpoint management service for both corporate and BYOD devices. It extends some of the "on-premises" functionality of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft Office 2013</span> Version of Microsoft Office released in 2013

Microsoft Office 2013 is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2010 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2016. Unlike with Office 2010, no OS X equivalent was released.

Microsoft mobile services are a set of proprietary mobile services created specifically for mobile devices; they are typically offered through mobile applications and mobile browser for Windows Phone platforms, BREW, and Java. Microsoft's mobile services are typically connected with a Microsoft account and often come preinstalled on Microsoft's own mobile operating systems while they are offered via various means for other platforms. Microsoft started to develop for mobile computing platforms with the launch of Windows CE in 1996 and later added Microsoft's Pocket Office suite to their Handheld PC line of PDAs in April 2000. From December 2014 to June 2015, Microsoft made a number of corporate acquisitions, buying several of the top applications listed in Google Play and the App Store including Acompli, Sunrise Calendar, Datazen, Wunderlist, Echo Notification Lockscreen, and MileIQ.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft Office 2016</span> Version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite

Microsoft Office 2016 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, succeeding both Office 2013 and Office for Mac 2011 and preceding Office 2019, which in turn was succeeded by Office 2021 for both platforms. It was released on macOS on July 9, 2015, and on Microsoft Windows on September 22, 2015, for Office 365 subscribers. Mainstream support ended on October 13, 2020, and extended support for most editions of Office 2016 will end on October 14, 2025, the same day as Windows 10. The perpetually licensed version on macOS and Windows was released on September 22, 2015. Office 2016 requires Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or OS X Yosemite at the minimum. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 RTM–1803 and Windows Server 2016 and Windows 11 until version 23H2; as the following version, Microsoft Office 2019 only supports Windows 10 version 1809, Windows Server 2019 or later.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft 365</span> Subscription services offered by Microsoft

Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft. It encompasses online services such as Outlook.com, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, programs formerly marketed under the name Microsoft Office, enterprise products and services associated with these products such as Exchange Server, SharePoint, and Viva Engage. It also covers subscription plans encompassing these products, including those that include subscription-based licenses to desktop and mobile software, and hosted email and intranet services.

Microsoft Office 2021 is a version of the Microsoft Office suite of applications for the Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems. It was released on October 5, 2021, along with Windows 11, and replaced Office 2019. A successor, Microsoft Office 2024 is expected to be rolled out in the second half of 2024.

References

  1. 1 2 "Office 2019 is now available for Windows and Mac". Microsoft 365 Blog. Microsoft. September 24, 2018. Archived from the original on October 3, 2018. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Update history for Office 2016 C2R and Office 2019". Microsoft Learn . Microsoft . Retrieved January 18, 2024.
  3. "Update history for Office for Mac". Microsoft Learn . Microsoft . Retrieved January 18, 2024.
  4. "System requirements for Microsoft Office". Office.com . Microsoft. Archived from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
  5. "Language Accessory Pack for Office 2016". Office.com . Microsoft. Archived from the original on February 15, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
  6. "System requirements for Microsoft Office". Microsoft. Archived from the original on January 9, 2019. Retrieved October 11, 2023.
  7. "What languages is Office available in?". Microsoft. Archived from the original on April 7, 2019. Retrieved October 11, 2023.
  8. Warren, Tom (September 16, 2021). "Microsoft Office 2021 will launch on October 5th". The Verge. Archived from the original on April 17, 2022. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  9. Warren, Tom (September 26, 2017). "Microsoft is releasing Office 2019 next year". The Verge . Vox Media. Archived from the original on September 30, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  10. 1 2 Caldas, Bernardo; Spataro, Jared (February 1, 2018). "Changes to Office and Windows servicing and support". Windows IT Pro Blog. Microsoft. Archived from the original on August 29, 2018. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  11. "What's New in Office 2019". support.microsoft.com. Microsoft Corporation. Archived from the original on January 2, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
  12. Devereux, William (April 18, 2018). "The best version of OneNote on Windows". Microsoft Office 365 Blog. Microsoft. Archived from the original on May 21, 2019. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  13. Warren, Tom (April 18, 2018). "Microsoft Office 2019 kills off OneNote desktop app in favor of Windows 10 version". The Verge. Microsoft. Archived from the original on September 10, 2019. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  14. "Frequently Asked Questions about OneNote in Office 2019". Office.com . Microsoft. Archived from the original on September 10, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  15. "What's new in Office 365". support.office.com. Archived from the original on November 15, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  16. "What's New in Office 2019". support.office.com. Archived from the original on November 15, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  17. Bright, Peter (June 13, 2018). "Microsoft rebuilding the Office interface to align it across Web, mobile, and desktop". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on November 16, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  18. 1 2 3 4 "Choose Microsoft Office Products". Office. Microsoft. Archived from the original on September 14, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
  19. 1 2 3 "Choose Microsoft Office Products". Office. Microsoft. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
  20. 1 2 3 "Compare Microsoft Office Volume Licensing Suites". Office. Microsoft. Archived from the original on June 19, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
  21. Warren, Tom (January 24, 2019). "Microsoft Office now available on Apple's Mac App Store". The Verge. Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  22. "Office 2019 perpetual volume license products available as Click-to-Run". Support. Microsoft. April 27, 2018. Archived from the original on April 22, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  23. "Deploy Office 2019 (for IT Pros)". Microsoft Docs. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2021.

Microsoft Office 2021