Microsoft has officially released Office LTSC 2024, the latest version of its Long-Term Servicing Channel. Designed for specialized business environments and disconnected systems, Office LTSC 2024 provides organizations with a stable and reliable Office solution without requiring continuous cloud connectivity.
Like earlier perpetual versions of Office, Office LTSC 2024 includes only a subset of the value found in Microsoft 365 Apps, building on the features included in past releases. New features for Office LTSC 2024 include: new meeting creation options and search enhancements in Outlook, dozens of new Excel features and functions including Dynamic Charts and Arrays; and improved performance, security, and accessibility. Office LTSC 2024 does not ship with Microsoft Publisher, which has been retired, or with the Microsoft Teams app, which is available to download separately.
While Office LTSC 2024 offers many significant improvements over the previous Office LTSC release, as an on-premises product it will not offer the cloud-based capabilities of Microsoft 365 Apps, like real-time collaboration; AI-driven automation in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; or cloud-backed security and compliance capabilities that give added confidence in a hybrid world. And with device-based licensing and extended offline access, Microsoft 365 offers deployment options for scenarios like computer labs and submarines that require something other than a user-based, always-online solution. Microsoft 365 (or Office 365) is also required to subscribe to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365; as a disconnected product, Office LTSC does not qualify.
As with previous releases, Office LTSC 2024 remains a device-based “perpetual” license, supported for five years under the Fixed Lifecycle Policy, in parallel with Windows 11 LTSC.
Office LTSC is a specialty product that Microsoft has committed to maintaining for use in exceptional circumstances, and the 2024 release provides substantial new feature value for those scenarios. To support continued innovation in this niche space, Microsoft increased the price of Office LTSC Professional Plus, Office LTSC Standard, Office LTSC Embedded, and the individual apps by up to 10% at the time of general availability.
Office 2024 for consumers
Microsoft has also released a new version of on-premises Office for consumers: Office 2024. Office 2024 will also be supported for five years with the traditional “one-time purchase” model. They did not change the price for these products at the time of the release.
The future of work in an AI-powered world is on the cloud. In most customer scenarios, Microsoft 365 offers the most secure, productive, and cost-effective solution, and positions customers to unlock the transformative power of AI with Microsoft Copilot. Especially since Office 2016 and Office 2019 officially reached the end of support in October 2025, Microsoft has encouraged customers still using these outdated solutions to transition to a cloud subscription that suits their needs as a small business or a larger organization.
Nguồn: Microsoft
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