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

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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.