Microsoft Office 2019 is Released! What this means for Mac Users…

Microsoft Office 2019 is Released! What this means for Mac Users…

Microsoft has just launched the latest version of their flagship productivity application suite, Microsoft Office [2019] in the last few days to those on subscription plans and corporate volume license schemes. Availability to the retail market is expected in coming days…

I have only just downloaded the installers for the latest versions for Mac and Windows as I have volume license customers and want to have the installers sitting on their file servers ready for deployment in coming days. I am yet to install the latest version myself for actual application testing, and I will look at doing this over the weekend… From the initial screen shots that I have seen (which honestly isn’t many) the interfaces look very similar, and that’s a good thing!

But the reason for this blog post isn’t to review the latest Office release, its actually to make something very known to Mac users of Office 2016…

Microsoft regularly releases updates for features, reliability, and security improvements for their Office products and for Mac this is no exception! For those of you who do keep on top of your updates, and are volume licenses subscribers (not Office 365 subscribers), please refrain at this point in time from updating to version 16.17 as this is Office 2019 and the volume license will not work for this version unless you: a) have volume licenses to cover the new 2019 release, and b) have downloaded the volume license serialiser utility from your volume license portal as this will be required to re-activate your Office license.

At the time of writing this post, Office 2016 for Mac update version 16.16.2 is the current version available to Office 2016 users.

If you have licensing to cover the 2019 version and are wanting to test drive, by all means, please do and comment your thoughts. A backup, as always, is recommended!

For direct download links to all Microsoft Office versions, updates, etc from 2011 to the current 2019 release, please see below:

Visit the full site here: https://macadmins.software/