Office 2016 and Office 2019 have reached end of support

bobkn · Oct 14, 2025

I was on 2019.

My need for the Office apps is limited. I'm trying LibreOffice with the hope that I won't notice any of the Office features that may be missing from it.

Silvio · Oct 14, 2025

bobkn said:
I was on 2019.

My need for the Office apps is limited. I'm trying LibreOffice with the hope that I won't notice any of the Office features that may be missing from it.

Years ago, while I was on my Linux only saga, I tried this.

After numerous emails, from agents, accountants saying, Word/Excel could not open documents sent to them, created in Libre Office, or the fonts/layouts were a complete mess, I gave up on this, and just have a Windows 11 box running Office 365,, next to my Linux Workstation..

Bliss...

Steve C · Oct 15, 2025

My Office 2016 just updated - I guess that was the last update. Perhpas time to buy another cheapy key e.g. Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows: Lifetime License | StackSocial

MisterEd · Oct 15, 2025

My main desktop and laptop with Windows 11 Pro are using MS Office 2021 Pro Plus.
My other computers have the following

Desktop with Windows 10 Pro with MS Office 2019 Pro Plus
Laptop with Windows 10 Pro with MS Office 2019 Pro Plus
Desktop with Windows 10 Home with MS Office 2010 Pro
Desktop with Windows 7 Home Premium with MS Office 2007 Pro
Desktop with Windows 7 Pro with MS Office 2003 Pro
Laptop with Windows 7 Pro with SoftMaker FreeOffice 2024

I will continue to use these old versions of MS Office on these old computers because they work fine so for them there is no reason to upgrade them.

rseiler · Dec 10, 2025

Steve C said:
My Office 2016 just updated - I guess that was the last update.

As you've no doubt since found, it was not. There were November updates and even December ones (below). So, go figure. This reminds me of Google's deprecation of Manifest v2 that was meant to happen a couple months ago but never did.

Steve C · Dec 11, 2025

rseiler said:
As you've no doubt since found, it was not. There were November updates and even December ones (below). So, go figure. This reminds me of Google's deprecation of Manifest v2 that was meant to happen a couple months ago but never did.

Where did you see those updates? Trying manually update from within Office finds no updates and there are no recent updates shown in Settings / Windows Update.

rseiler · Dec 11, 2025

Steve C said:
Where did you see those updates? Trying manually update from within Office finds no updates and there are no recent updates shown in Settings / Windows Update.

Manually update within Office 2016? How do you do that? I know modern versions let you do it from the Account page, but 2016 doesn't have an update function there, or anywhere else, that I know of.

The above was from WU (well, WUMT--Windows Update MiniTool -- so I could take a good screenshot). If it's not showing up in Settings/WU for you, did the November ones? What about the October ones? My guess would be that the system you're using doesn't have the "Receive updates for other Microsoft products" option enabled, so it's pure Windows Update rather than Microsoft Update (which includes updates for things like Office). If that option is grayed out for you, rather than figuring that out it's easier just to choose Microsoft Update in WUMT.

Download Windows Update MiniTool 22.04.2022 - MajorGeeks

Windows Update MiniTool is a free alternative to the standard Windows Update; it puts you in control of updates by allowing you to search, install, and block Windows updates as you please.

www.majorgeeks.com

Edit: I thought of something that explains it: we have different flavors of 2016. I have the "MSI" version, which was the end of the line for the traditional form of MS Office (I think 2019 forward MSI installs went away completely). In MSI versions, updates were fed by Microsoft Update. You must have the account-driven flavor, and updates for that, just like with modern versions, come in directly. For whatever reason, they forgot to disable the update tap for the MSI version, which makes me wonder why they're still producing such updates if no one is meant to get them.

Steve C · Dec 12, 2025

Go to Office Account

rseiler said:
Manually update within Office 2016? How do you do that? I know modern versions let you do it from the Account page, but 2016 doesn't have an update function there, or anywhere else, that I know of.

The above was from WU (well, WUMT--Windows Update MiniTool -- so I could take a good screenshot). If it's not showing up in Settings/WU for you, did the November ones? What about the October ones? My guess would be that the system you're using doesn't have the "Receive updates for other Microsoft products" option enabled, so it's pure Windows Update rather than Microsoft Update (which includes updates for things like Office). If that option is grayed out for you, rather than figuring that out it's easier just to choose Microsoft Update in WUMT.

Download Windows Update MiniTool 22.04.2022 - MajorGeeks

Windows Update MiniTool is a free alternative to the standard Windows Update; it puts you in control of updates by allowing you to search, install, and block Windows updates as you please.

www.majorgeeks.com

Edit: I thought of something that explains it: we have different flavors of 2016. I have the "MSI" version, which was the end of the line for the traditional form of MS Office (I think 2019 forward MSI installs went away completely). In MSI versions, updates were fed by Microsoft Update. You must have the account-driven flavor, and updates for that, just like with modern versions, come in directly. For whatever reason, they forgot to disable the update tap for the MSI version, which makes me wonder why they're still producing such updates if no one is meant to get them.

Go to Office Account in any app say Word and select Update Options then Update Now.

rseiler · Dec 12, 2025

Steve C said:
Go to Office Account in any app say Word and select Update Options then Update Now.

Not MSI versions.

Office suites	Office 2016, Office 2019
Office applications	Access 2016, Access 2019, Excel 2016, Excel 2019, OneNote 2016, Outlook 2016, Outlook 2019, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2019, Project 2016, Project 2019, Publisher 2016, Publisher 2019, Skype for Business 2016, Skype for Business 2019, Visio 2016, Visio 2019, Word 2016, Word 2019
Productivity servers	Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Skype for Business Server 2015, Skype for Business Server 2019
Windows	Windows 10

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