Microsoft has announced that its latest “perpetual” license of Office LTSC is now available for organizations. The consumer version, Office 2021, will be available on October 5, same as Windows 11.
Back in February, Microsoft announced upcoming updates to two variants of Office, namely Office Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) and Office 2021. Both are quite similar in nature with a key difference being that the former is meant for organizational use and the latter is intended for consumers. Both offer five years of mainstream support via a one-time “perpetual” license purchase, but that also means that they won’t get any new features or updates until the next perpetual license release. They are primarily intended for organizations and consumers who can’t migrate to the cloud to take advantage of Microsoft 365, which gets updated way more frequently. Microsoft announced a commercial preview of its LTSC releases in April, and now it has announced that Office LTSC has become generally available (GA) to organizations starting today while Office 2021 will hit GA on October 5, which is the same date as Windows 11’s general rollout.
