Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month

Microsoft’s Office 2019 apps for Mac will extremity moving adjacent month, because the institution isn’t renewing a certificate that validates Office licenses. Owners of Office 2019 for Mac are being warned they’ll person to acquisition Office 2024 aliases a Microsoft 365 subscription if they want to proceed editing documents.

Microsoft previously promised that “all your Office 2019 apps will proceed to function,” erstwhile it announced extremity of support successful 2023. The institution past quietly updated that support statement past period to region the mention of apps continuing to function, replacing it pinch “Rest assured that each your Office 2019 apps won’t suffer immoderate data.”

Starting connected July 13th, Office 2019 for Mac and Office 2021 for Mac will some tally successful “reduced functionality mode,” allowing group to unfastened files but not edit, save, aliases create caller documents. The reduced functionality will effect Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote.

While Microsoft is providing a certificate update for Office 2021 arsenic it’s still supported until October 13th, 2026, the institution is leaving Office 2019 for Mac users retired successful the acold arsenic support for these apps ended a fewer years ago. “Office 2019 for Mac reached extremity of support connected October 10, 2023, and nary longer receives updates,” says Microsoft. “Because Office 2019 cannot beryllium updated to the required version, this rumor cannot beryllium resolved by updating aliases reinstalling Office 2019 for Mac.”

JimmyTech points out that aged versions of Microsoft 365 apps connected Mac and iOS will besides beryllium affected by this certificate issue, but a elemental update will hole it for those users.

Microsoft regularly ends support of package and there’s ever the consequence you could tally into issues moving older apps aliases versions of Windows. It’s still astonishing to not spot Microsoft make an objection present though, peculiarly because this certificate rumor breaks the main functionality of an app you’ve paid a one-time licence interest for.