Oct 21
Support for Office 2010 ends in 12 months

Well its about that time, if you are using any aspect of Office 2010, including SharePoint 2010, to look at upgrading to a more modern platform.

Microsoft Support for Office 2010 will come to an end on 13th of October 2020.

What does this mean?

It means that Microsoft will no longer provide any technical support for issues, bug fixes for issues that are newly discovered as well as security fixes for vulnerabilities that are discovered in ALL Office 2010 products, including SharePoint!

Because of the severity of these changes, I highly recommended that you upgrade as soon as possible.

What are your options?

When it comes to SharePoint, You have 3 options.

  • Office 365, Migrate your SharePoint environment(s) to Microsoft Office 365
  • Upgrade to SharePoint 2019 (This involves several upgrades)

With Office 2010 (word, excel, etc…), your options are:

  • Office 365 ProPlus, the subscription version of Office that comes with most Office 365 enterprise plans.
  • Office 2019, which is sold as a one-time purchase and available for one computer per license.

What should you do? (In my opinion)

I highly recommend going the with Office 365.  A key difference between Office 365 and Office 2019 is that Office 365 is updated on a regular basis, as often as monthly, with new features. Office 2019 only has the same features that it had when it was released in October 2018!

Over the past 10 years I have seen Office evolve and change so much, most for the better… sometimes not so much, but Office 365 is the best version to date without question. The platform is great and allows for for much at scale.

Want to find out more?

The Adelaide Office 365 User Group meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (Feb-Nov) and we would love to have you come along, the group welcomes everyone - we have pizza (and subway – I try to mix it up), refreshments, door prizes and a great member network of people who use Office 365 in all different ways.

Our next meeting is on Tuesday, the 19th of November, 2019, registration is at http://ao365ug19112019.eventbrite.com.au/

Website: www.ao365ug.org.au

If you would like to know more about your options with Office 365 and the user group setting is not your thing, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]

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