February 2019 non-Security Office Updates are available

The February 2019 non-Security Office updates have been released Tuesday, February 5, 2019. They are not included in the DEFCON4 approval for the January 2019 patches. Unless you have a specific need to install them, you should wait until Susan Bradley (Patch Lady) approves them and any problems have been reported.

Office 2010

Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB4462172)
Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB4462187)
Update for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (KB4462182)
Update for Microsoft Visio 2010 (KB3115314)

Office 2013

Update for Microsoft Access 2013 (KB4032252)
Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB4461550)
Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB4461444)
Update for Microsoft Outlook 2013 (KB4462141)
Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB3172473)
Update for Skype for Business 2015 (KB4462135)

Office 2016

Update for Microsoft Access 2016 (KB4032257)
Update for Microsoft Office 2016 Language Interface Pack (KB4461534)
Update for Skype for Business 2016 (KB4462114)
Update for Microsoft Office 2016 (KB4461536)
Update for Microsoft Outlook 2016 (KB4462147)
Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 (KB4461599)
Update for Microsoft Project 2016 (KB4462134)
Update for Microsoft Office 2016 (KB4022161)
Update for Microsoft Word 2016 (KB4462145)

There were no non-security listings for Office 2007 (which is out of support).
Updates are for the .msi version (persistent). Office 365 and C2R are not included.
Security updates for all supported versions of Microsoft Office are released on the second Tuesday of the month (Patch Tuesday).

That “new” Office app? There’s less – and more – than meets the eye

Microsoft blogland is abuzz with news about a new! improved! Office app for Windows 10 called, doh, Office.

MS 365 VP Jared Spataro just posted:

Last year, we updated Office.com with a new experience focused on two simple things: helping users get the most out of Office and getting them back into their work quickly. The streamlined site has clearly resonated with customers, and now more than 40 percent of Office 365 web users start their work by visiting Office.com.

Starting today, we’re bringing this experience to Windows 10 in the form of an app, simply called Office. It’s now available to Windows Insiders (Fast) and will roll out to all Windows 10 users soon. The app itself is free and it can be used with any Office 365 subscription, Office 2019, Office 2016, or Office Online—the free web-based version of Office for consumers.

The announcement goes on to say that you’ll be able to use this new app to, basically, do everything you can do right now pretty easily with OneDrive and the Office.com portal.

But there’s one thing the announcement doesn’t mention. Mary Jo Foley explains that this new Office (there must be two dozen things running around called “Office”) is, in fact, a Progressive Web App. Which is pretty cool. Not a UWP (“Metro” “Windows Store”) app, but a real, live presumably working PWA.

The future is coming fast.

Say what? Microsoft moves the Cortana org to sit under Office?

Wow. How the mighty have fallen.

Cortana under Office changes all sorts of things.

Brad Sams on Petri.

Office 2007 End of Life, Outlook 2007 connections to Office 365 mailboxes ends Oct. 31, 2017

Office 2007 will reach End of Life on October 10, 2017. That’s a little over three months away.

What that means is, there will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content updates. According to Microsoft

In addition, as of October 31, 2017, Outlook 2007 will be unable to connect to Office 365 mailboxes, which means Outlook 2007 clients using Office 365 will not be able to receive and send mail. For more information, see RPC over HTTP deprecated in Office 365 on October 31, 2017.

With some exceptions like Outlook, mentioned above, Office 2007 programs will continue to  run after support ends, But Users will be taking a risk of malware infections exploiting unpatched flaws, and existing bugs will no longer be fixed.

Microsoft provides 3 options to upgrade Office 2007

• Upgrade to Office 365 ProPlus, the subscription version of Office that comes with many Office 365 plans.
• Upgrade to Office 2016, which is sold as a one-time purchase and available for one computer per license.
• Upgrade to an earlier version of Office, such as Office 2013.

For further reading on Office 2007 EOL and upgrade options:
From ComputerWorld.com  When does support end for Microsoft Office 2007? | By Gregg Keizer

From Microsoft: Office 2007 End of Life roadmap
and Resources to help you upgrade from Office 2007 servers and clients

Nadella gives away the store with new ‘Microsoft everywhere’ strategy

It’s a whole new strategy: Give away the blades, sell the razor.

And it just might work.

InfoWorld Tech Watch

25 years of Microsoft Office roadkill

A fun stroll down memory lane, saluting all of those programs that died in pursuit of Office.

InfoWorld slideshow.

OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice?

Tough choice, and MS Office compatibility continues to be problematic, especially with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.

See Neil McAllister’s InfoWorld Applications blog.

Microsoft Volume Licenses coming up for renewal

Microsoft’s big danger: crippling Volume License defections. Infoworld Tech Watch.