From ComputerWorld: Microsoft today launched Office 2019 for Windows and macOS, giving its most important customers - volume licensees - first crack at the application suite.
Also on Monday, the Redmond, Wash. company committed to a successor to Office 2019, ending renewed speculation that this release would be the last outside a subscription.
Office 2019 will roll out to others, including commercial and consumer customers who buy one-off copies rather than in bulk, over the next several weeks, Jared Spataro, Microsoft's marketing executive for Windows and Office, said in a post to a company blog.
Microsoft classifies software by how it is paid for, discriminating between a license bought outright from one that is "rented" because payment is made over time, as in a subscription.
Office 2019 is the perpetual license form of the suite, called that because it's purchased with a single, up-front fee that in turn gives the buyer the right to use the software in perpetuity. The license has no expiration date and users may run the software as long as they'd like.
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