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Microsoft announces Office 2024 in preview

Office 2024 preview will be available on April after months of development and internal testing. The first version of the office suite for local installations will be the LTSC commercial edition for companies, while the consumer version would arrive at the end of the year.

The Redmond firm has been promoting the Microsoft 365 cloud version for years and many of us thought that after its launch it would cancel the local versions. It is not the case. Microsoft wants all the users it can get and not leave the way open to alternatives, which exist and are very good, especially what comes from LibreOffice.

In this way and although in the ad from the first preview of Office 2024 still recommend the cloud versionunderstand that there are clients “with specific usage scenarios that require a truly long-term service channel” This version is aimed at them for local installations, under a perpetual license with a single payment and without mandatory subscriptions.

Office 2024, updated, but without AI

The new version will include the main applications of the productivity suite, the Word word processor, the Excel spreadsheet, the PowerPoint presentations, the database, Access, and others such as the Outlook email client. Say that it will not include Publisher since this tool is being discontinued and neither will Teams, which will be offered as a separate download.

Office 2024

Microsoft promises that the new suite will offer “significant improvements” compared to the previous version Office 2021, but also points out its shortcomings. As an on-premises product it will not offer the cloud-based capabilities of Microsoft 365 applications, such as real-time collaboration. They will also not have AI technologies that are being added to the cloud version.

And the cloud version is much superior: it offers a greater number of applications; better integration between them; allows storage and better collaboration; It offers all the features of the suite and is updated in both features and security quickly and conveniently. Or as Microsoft points out: «The future of work in an AI-driven world is in the cloud. In most customer scenarios, Microsoft 365 delivers the most secure, productive, and cost-effective solution, and positions customers to unlock the transformative power of AI with Microsoft Copilot..

Still, for those who need the cloud version, say that Office 2024 will be available for Windows and Mac and in 64 and 32 bit editions. The first public preview will be published in April and will correspond to the LTSC commercial edition. Microsoft has confirmed that it will also market the consumer version and at the same price as the launch of Office 2021. Remember that from time to time we offer you great offers on Office and also on Windows.

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