Microsoft Office
Guides, comparisons and buying advice for Microsoft Office — perpetual licences, edition differences, and how to get the right version for your needs.
Since April, a spreadsheet has been a filing tool. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax went live on 6 April 2026, and HMRC accepts records kept in spreadsheets provided they reach it through compatible bridging software — which quietly turned the version of Excel sitting on your practice’s desks into a support question rather than […]
Microsoft licensing has its own vocabulary, and most of it was written for procurement departments rather than for the person trying to work out which version of Office to buy. This is a plain-English reference to the terms you will actually run into — on product pages, in activation errors, in a supplier’s quote, or […]
Microsoft ended support for Office 2016 on 14 October 2025. Ten months on, if you open Word 2016 this morning, it starts up exactly as it always has — which is precisely why most people who worried about it last autumn have stopped. Nothing visible happened. But the risk from unsupported software was never going […]
Search for Microsoft Access and you’ll find a decade of people announcing its death. The question deserves a straight answer, because there is a real Access deadline in 2026 — it just isn’t the one most of the internet is worried about. The only perpetual route to Access 2024 Office Professional Plus 2024 Access 2024 […]
Lifecycle · UK Buyer’s Guide Microsoft is retiring more products on 13 October 2026 than on any other single day this decade. Office 2021 in every language and edition. Windows 10’s final security updates. Windows 11 24H2. The last of Publisher. Here is every deadline in one place — and what each one actually costs […]
Office Licensing · Buyer Comparison Microsoft 365 Family is sold as a subscription for six people. Read Microsoft’s own product page carefully and you’ll find a line most buyers miss: AI for subscription owner only. Five of the six people you share the plan with get no Copilot at all — and the plan now […]
Microsoft OfficeAugust 20269 min read Office Professional Plus 2024 doesn’t activate through office.com/setup — and that catches people out. It installs through Microsoft’s own Office Deployment Tool and activates directly with your product key, no Microsoft account required. This guide walks through the whole process on Windows, including a paste-ready configuration file. One-time purchase · […]