Office 2019 Compatible With Windows 7

Before we talk about the Office 2019 System Requirements, let me first clarify what you get with this release.

Office 2019 is now available on a preview for commercial customers for both Windows and Mac. We do not have a lot of information available on the release dates yet since we are still away from the final release of the product. We expect the version to debut sometime in the latter half of 2018, subject to change. So, how does it differ from a traditional O365 subscription? Well, if you are an existing Office 365 ProPlus customer, you should already be on the latest version of the Office build. Office 2019, on the other hand, is a one-time purchase which gives you access to the 32-bit & 64-bit Windows desktop applications. So, in essence, Office 2019 is a perpetual upgrade to Office 2016.

Office 2019 is compatible with Windows 10 and the three most recent versions of macOS. It can't be installed in Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. You must be using Windows 10 operating system to install Office 2019. As reported yesterday, Microsoft changed the way how they license Windows 10 to their OEM partners. But buckle in folks, the changes just keep on coming. In what looks like an effort to push Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 owners to upgrade, Microsoft has officially announced that Office 2019 will only work on machines with Windows 10 and the next LTSC release of Windows Server. We've recently deployed a 2019 Exchange environment and in all our testing, Windows 7 will fail autodiscovery and ultimately drop the connections with Outlook & Exchange even on machines that had an existing connection to 2013 Exchange. All editions of Office 2013 and above work fine on Windows 10, however nothing on Windows 7 other than OWA.

This release of Office 2019 is ideal for disconnected PCs and Laptops which are not connected to the internet or are installed in a corporate environment.

With the Office 2019 release, you get the following:

• Word 2019
• Excel 2019
• PowerPoint 2019
• Outlook 2019
• OneNote 2019
• Publisher 2019
• Access 2019
• Project Professional 2019 and
• Visio 2019

Note: Commercial Previews are for Microsoft’s Volume Licensing Customers only!

On the server side, we expect Microsoft to release the following:

• Exchange Server 2019
• SharePoint Server 2019
• Project Server 2019 with SharePoint 2019 as a prerequisite
• Skype for Business Server

Office 2019 System Requirements

At the time of writing this post, we do not have much information on specific details. So, we will keep this post as a placeholder, before we get concrete official information on the Microsoft Website.

What we heard is that neither Windows 7 or 8.1 are supported. The rumor is that Office 2019 will only be expected to run on Windows 10. The following Windows 10 editions are expected to run Office 2019.

• Any supported Windows 10 SAC (Windows as a Service) release
• Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (Long-Term Servicing Channel) 2018
• The next LTSC release of Windows Server 2019

With a onetime purchase, you will get security and stability updates, plus bug fixes. What you do not receive is feature upgrades. You can visit the official Microsoft Office Blog for more updates regarding this release.

For regular automatic feature updates, we recommend going with the subscription-based O365 subscription. For an overview, see below:

Office 365 – An Overview

Microsoft offers you ten different alternatives when it comes to Office 365. If you are confused about what Office 365 all about, it is a cloud-based office product that caters to the online usage of the service. It also gives you a subscription-based licensing for Office products installed on your client PCs.

You have access to the following ten options you can opt for –

• Office 365 Home
• Office 365 Personal
• Office 365 Home and Student
• Office 365 ProPlus
• Office 365 Enterprise E1
• Office 365 Enterprise E3
• Office 365 Enterprise E5

Conclusion

We hope you get some idea about what to expect with the next release of Office 2019. Once we have more information, we will update our post with more detailed information. Comments and suggestions are welcome in the comment section below. Thanks for visiting!

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