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• Microsoft launches new 365 Basic tier, overhauls Office app

  Microsoft will be introducing a new, low-cost subscription tier to its Microsoft 365 product bundle.

• Microsoft gives mitigation advice for Follina vulnerability exploitable via Office apps

  The actively exploited flaw allows attackers to use malicious Word documents to perform remote code execution through Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool.

• Office's future of work swipes ideas from 2010's Xbox

  Microsoft announces support for intelligent cameras that can recognise you in meetings, along with new features for Outlook, PowerPoint, and more that embrace hybrid work.

• Microsoft to cut perpetual Office support by 50%, raise price by 10%

  The move is more evidence that Microsoft remains eager to push, pull, and prod commercial customers into service-like subscriptions.

• Microsoft readies Office for Big Sur, M1-based Macs

  Microsoft has issued a preview of Office for the Mac that will run natively on Apple's upcoming ARM-based laptops.

• Next perpetual version of Office to debut in 2021

  Office 2019 won't be the last perpetual-licensed version of the popular software suite; Microsoft will release a successor in the latter half of next year.

• Microsoft puts Application Guard for Office into public preview

  The defensive technology walls off untrusted Office documents to prevent attack code carried by malicious files from reaching the operating system or its apps.

• Microsoft advances the future of Office: Project Cortex and Fluid Framework

  Microsoft offers glimpses at the future of Office with Project Cortex, which deeply searches corporate documents, and the cool Fluid Framework and Teams.

• Microsoft axes Office 2019 from 'Home Use Program'

  Redmond is moving away from perpetually-licensed Office 2019 and now offers annual subscriptions to Office 365 Personal and Office 365 Home.

• Microsoft: Whatever you do, don't call it Office Online

  What's in a name? Apparently, for Microsoft, not the word 'online' when it comes to the company's Office apps. Users are not amused.

• Microsoft floats the concept of a dedicated Office key in a closed survey

  Such a move would go beyond controlling the operating system to encouraging use of Office applications, which typically require a subscription.

• Microsoft cuts Office 2016 some slack, lets users connect to services until 2023

  Microsoft will let Office 2016 users connect to Microsoft's online services for three more years than the company had earlier said.

• Microsoft: Office 365 for Mac subscribers must run newer editions of macOS

  Starting in September, only Macs running macOS Sierra or High Sierra will receive new Office 365 feature updates.

• Office 2019 will only run on Windows 10, and will begin previews next quarter

  Microsoft said users should expect to see previews of the Office 2019 apps next quarter, but subscribers will need Windows 10 to run them.

• G Suite isn’t killing Microsoft, but Google’s still winning converts

  Alphabet Inc's Google has struggled for years to get big businesses to embrace G Suite, its hip alternative to Microsoft Office.