Microsoft Office 2019: A Comparison with Office 365 and Other Alternatives

Some Office 2019, Office 2016, and Office 2013 products come with a product key. If yours did, before installing Microsoft 365 for the first time, sign in with an existing or new Microsoft account and enter your product key at office.com/setup. Redeeming your key is what links your account with Microsoft 365 so you only have to do this once. Already did this? Select the tab below for the version you're trying to install.

Microsoft Office 2019

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Commercial and consumer customers can now purchase Microsoft Office 2019 for Windows and Mac. Office 2019 is the next perpetual release of Office. It includes significant improvements over Microsoft Office 2016 and earlier versions of on-premises Office.

Office 2019 is now available as a one-time purchase for commercial and consumer users. Office 2019 is available for both Windows and macOS, and includes classic versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The Windows version also includes Publisher 2019, Access 2019, Project 2019, and Visio 2019. Office 2019 applications don't receive feature updates but do receive regular security and stability updates.

No. Microsoft 365 is our always-up-to-date version of the Office apps, and subscribers already have a version of Office that has all the functionality that's in Office 2019 and more. See a comparison of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise and Office 2019.

Office 2019 is the on-premises version of Office that includes a meaningful subset of features found in Microsoft 365, but does not include all of the latest features. It is a one-time purchase that does not receive feature updates.

The latest version of Office is Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. It is a user-based subscription powered by the Microsoft cloud, and includes the most productive, most secure, and up-to-date features. It provides access to real-time collaboration and AI-powered features beyond what is in Office 2019, and it receives feature updates on an ongoing basis.

Features like Ideas and new data types are service-backed features that will be available only in Microsoft 365. These features will not be made available in the on-premises versions of Office such as Office 2019.

The commercial release of Office 2019 is geared toward volume-licensed commercial customers who have a specific need for on-premises or hybrid deployment and want to have the latest version of Office applications and services available for that scenario.

Office 2019 (for both Windows and Mac) is a one-time purchase and does not receive feature updates after you purchase it. Office 2019 includes a meaningful subset of features that are found in Microsoft 365, but it's not part of Microsoft 365. Office 2019 will receive quality and security updates as required.

No, you don't have to be connected to the Internet to use the Office 2019 applications, such as Word 2019, Excel 2019, and PowerPoint 2019, because the applications are fully installed on your computer.

Office 2019 is an upgrade to earlier versions of on-premises Office, including Office 2016. Microsoft 365 is the subscription service of Office, and it will have the most creative, collaborative, intelligent, and secure features to go along with cloud connectivity. The following Microsoft 365 features are not included in Office 2019 for Windows.

Office 2019 is an upgrade to earlier versions of on-premises Office, including Office 2016. Microsoft 365 is the subscription service of Office, and it will have the most creative, collaborative, intelligent, and secure features to go along with cloud connectivity. The following Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise features are not included in Office 2019 for Mac.

On-premises versions of Office, including Office 2019, do not include a vast number of the intelligent security features Microsoft has to offer, because their data isn't connected to the cloud. Users that desire our complete suite of intelligent security features should consider migrating to Office 365.

The security features for Office 2019 for Windows mirror those included in Office 2016 with the addition of Windows Information Protection (WIP) for applications. The security features for Office 2019 for Mac are equivalent to those included in Office 2016.

Microsoft offers simple and cost-effective solutions for multilingual environments. You can install language accessory packs after you install Office 2019 to add additional display, help, or proofing tools. For more information about how to add languages, see here.

Microsoft Office 2019 for Windows provides 5 years of mainstream support plus two 2 years of extended support as an exception to the 10-year Fixed Lifecycle Policy term. This seven-year term aligns with the support period for Office 2016.

The Office 2019 client applications use Click-to-Run installation technology only. We will not provide an MSI file as a deployment method for Office 2019 clients. We will continue to provide an MSI file for Office Server products.Refer to the Microsoft Lifecycle Support policies for more specifics about support for Office 2019. Full system requirements for Office 2019 are available here. View the initial announcement of this policy here.

Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac provides 5 years of mainstream support. This 5-year term is aligned with the support model for Office 2016 for Mac.Refer to the Microsoft Lifecycle Support policies for more specifics about support for Office 2019.

Office 2019 for Mac is supported on the three most recent versions of macOS. When a new version of macOS is released, the Office 2019 for Mac Operating System requirement becomes the three most recent versions at that time. That is, the new version of macOS plus the previous two versions.

Office 2019 uses Click-to-Run technology to install products directly from the Internet. This makes sure all applications are always up to date. Use the Office Deployment Tool to install Office 2019 or download Office 2019 for deployment on PCs not connected to the Internet. Learn more about how to deploy Office with the Office Deployment Tool.

Although Office 2019 has no mobile offering, you can get the core Office experience for free on your favorite tablets and phones with screen sizes of 10.1 inches or less. To find and download apps, go to the following pages:

Microsoft Office 2019 (Second perpetual release of Office 16) is a version of Microsoft Office for both Windows and Mac. It replaces Office 2016 and was replaced by Office 2021 on October 5, 2021.[6] It was unveiled on April 27, 2018 for Windows 10 and June 12, 2018 for macOS, and launched on September 24, 2018.[1] Some features that had previously been restricted to Office 365 subscribers are available in this release.[7] Office 2019 remain same major version 16 as predecessor Office 2016, therefore it is second perpetual release of Office 16. Microsoft plans to end mainstream support for Office 2019 on October 10, 2023. Unlike other versions of Microsoft Office, Office 2019 will only get two years of extended support, which means that support for Office 2019 will end on the same day as support for Office 2016, and Windows 10 will on October 14, 2025.[8]

Office 2019 includes many of the features previously published via Office 365, along with improved inking features, LaTeX support in Word, new animation features in PowerPoint including the morph and zoom features, and new formulas and charts in Excel for data analysis.[11]

Despite being released in the same month, the new Office user interface in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook is only available to Office 365 subscribers, not perpetual Office 2019 licenses.[15][16][17]

Same as its predecessor Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 2019 has the same perpetual SKU editions aimed towards different markets. Like its predecessor, Microsoft Office 2019 contains Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote and is licensed for use on one computer.[18][19]

Unlike its predecessor, both Windows version retail & volume versions use the Click-to-Run (C2R) for installation. Also unlike its predecessor, all Windows version Office 2019 require only Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019.

For Office 2013 and 2016, various editions containing the client apps were available in both Click-To-Run (inspired by Microsoft App-V) and traditional Windows Installer setup formats. However, Office 2019 client apps only have a Click-to-Run installer and only the server apps have the traditional MSI installer. The Click-To-Run version has a smaller footprint; in case of Microsoft Office 2019 Pro Plus, the product requires 10 GB less than the MSI version of Office 2016 Pro Plus.[22]

Volume licensing versions of Office 2019 cannot be downloaded from Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center and must be deployed using configuration.xml and running Office Deployment Tool (ODT) from command-line.[23]

To configure and perform deployments of volume licensed versions of Office 2019, including Project and Visio, for users in your organization, you use the Office Deployment Tool (ODT). The Office Customization Tool (OCT) that you previously used for Windows Installer (MSI) is no longer used.

The installation files for Office 2019 are available on the Office Content Delivery Network (CDN) on the internet instead of on the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC). You can install Office 2019 directly from the Office CDN. Or, you can download the installation files from the Office CDN to a location on your local network, such as a shared folder, and install Office 2019 from that location. You can use different methods for different sets of computers in your organization. Whichever method you choose, you use the ODT.

After you download the Office Deployment Tool, double-click on the officedeploymenttool executable (.exe) file to extract the ODT files. When you're finished, you should have several files: setup.exe and some sample configuration.xml files. For an Office 2019-specific sample, see Sample configuration.xml file to use with the Office Deployment Tool.

The setup.exe file is the ODT and is a command-line tool that supports downloading and installing Office 2019. The configuration.xml files are sample files to get you started. You use the configuration.xml file to provide settings for the ODT to use when downloading or installing Office 2019. The configuration.xml is a simple xml file that can be created and edited in any text editor, such as Notepad. You can name the file anything that you want, as long as it retains the xml file extension. 2ff7e9595c