Microsoft Office Mac Roadmap
Office 2010 will reach its end of support on October 13, 2020. If you haven't already begun to upgrade your Office 2010 environment, we recommend you start now.
Also, support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. Even though Office 2010 is still supported until October, Windows 7 will no longer receive security updates after January 2020, unless you purchase Extended Security Updates (ESU). Without ESU, Windows 7 is vulnerable to security threats. For more information, see the Windows 7 end of support site and Lifecycle FAQ-Extended Security Updates.
This article provides recommendations, information, and links to help administrators and IT Pros in large enterprises plan their upgrades to Office 365 ProPlus.
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- If you're a home user who wants to upgrade from Office 2010 to the latest version of Office, see How do I upgrade Office?
- If you're an admin at a small business or organization who wants to help your users upgrade to the latest version of Office, see Upgrade your Office 365 for business users to the latest Office client.
We also recommend business and enterprise customers use the deployment benefits provided by Microsoft and Microsoft Certified Partners, including Microsoft FastTrack for cloud migrations and Software Assurance Planning Services for on-premises upgrades.
What does end of support mean?
Office 2010, like almost all Microsoft products, has a support lifecycle during which we provide bug fixes and security fixes. This lifecycle lasts for a certain number of years from the date of the product's initial release. For Office 2010, the support lifecycle is 10 years. The end of this lifecycle is known as the product's end of support. When Office 2010 reaches its end of support on October 13, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide the following:
Technical support for issues
Bug fixes for issues that are discovered
Security fixes for vulnerabilities that are discovered
Because of the changes listed above, we strongly recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible.
What are my options?
With Office 2010 reaching its end of support, this is a good time to explore your options and prepare an upgrade plan to either of these latest versions of Office:
Office 365 ProPlus, the subscription version of Office that comes with most Office 365 enterprise plans.
Office 2019, which is sold as a one-time purchase and available for one computer per license.
A key difference between Office 365 ProPlus and Office 2019 is that Office 365 ProPlus is updated on a regular basis, as often as monthly, with new features. Office 2019 only has the same features that it had when it was released in October 2018.
This article provides guidance on upgrading to Office 365 ProPlus.
What is Office 365? What is Office 365 ProPlus?
Office 365 provides subscription plans that include access to Office applications and other cloud services, including Skype for Business, Exchange Online, and OneDrive for Business. Office 365 ProPlus is the version of Office that comes with most Office 365 enterprise plans. Office 365 ProPlus includes the full versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Access, and Skype for Business installed on your client computers.
Unlike Office 2010, Office 365 ProPlus uses a user-based licensing model that allows people to install Office on up to 5 PCs or Macs and on their mobile devices. There are also differences in how you deploy, license, and activate Office 365 ProPlus compared to Office 2010. For more information about Office 365 ProPlus, see the following information:
Review what's changed since Office 2010
To learn about some of the changes since Office 2010, review the following articles: Changes in Office 2013 and Changes in Office 2016 for Windows.
For information about the new features available in Office 365 ProPlus, see What's new in Office 365. For Office 2019, see What's New in Office 2019.
Review the system requirements for Office 365 ProPlus
Before upgrading to Office 365 ProPlus, verify that your client computers meet or exceed the minimum system requirements.
In addition, you should review the system requirements for your Office server workloads. For more information, see Exchange Server Supportability Matrix and System Requirements for Office server products.
Plan for Office 365
Because Office 365 ProPlus comes with most enterprise Office 365 plans, you should review your current Office 365 capabilities as part of planning an upgrade to Office 365 ProPlus. Prior to deploying Office 365 ProPlus, for example, you should ensure that all your users have Office 365 accounts and licenses. For more information, see Deploy Office 365 Enterprise for your organization.
Assess application compatibility
Before deploying Office 365 ProPlus, you may want to test your business-critical VBA macros, third-party add-ins, and complex documents and spreadsheets to assess their compatibility with Office 365 ProPlus. For more information, see Assess application compatibility.
To help with assessing application compatibility with Office 365 ProPlus, we recommend using the Readiness Toolkit for Office add-ins and VBA. The Readiness Toolkit includes the Readiness Report Creator, which creates an Excel report with VBA macro compatibility and add-in readiness information to help your enterprise assess its readiness to move to Office 365 ProPlus.
You can download the Readiness Toolkit for free from the Microsoft Download Center. For more information, see Use the Readiness Toolkit to assess application compatibility for Office 365 ProPlus.
Assess your infrastructure and environment
To decide how to upgrade to Office 365 ProPlus, you should evaluate your infrastructure and environment, including the following:
Number and distribution of your clients, including required languages.
IT infrastructure, including operating systems, mobile device support, user permissions and management, and software distribution methods.
Network infrastructure, including connections to the Internet and internal software distribution points.
Cloud infrastructure, including existing Office 365 capabilities, user licensing, and identity.
Your assessment of these components will influence how you want to upgrade. For more information, see Assess your environment and requirements for deploying Office 365 ProPlus.
Review new Group Policy settings
As with any new version of Office, there are new Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Group Policy settings. All Group Policy settings for Office 365 ProPlus are now located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftOffice16.0 and HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftOffice16.0.
You can download the Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Group Policy settings for Office 365 ProPlus from the Microsoft Download Center for free. The download includes an Excel file that lists all the Group Policy settings and the new policy settings for Office 365 ProPlus.
Choose how you want to deploy Office 365 ProPlus
You can deploy Office 365 ProPlus from the cloud, from a local source on your network, or with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (or another software distribution solution). Which option you choose depends on your environment and business requirements. Deploying from the cloud, for example, minimizes your administrative overhead, but could require more network bandwidth. Deploying with Configuration Manager or from a local source, on the other hand, offers more granular control over the deployment of Office 365 ProPlus, including which applications and languages are installed on which client computers.
For more information, see Plan your enterprise deployment of Office 365 ProPlus.
Choose how often to update Office
With Office 365 ProPlus, you can control how frequently your users receive feature updates to their Office applications. For more information, see Overview of update channels for Office 365 ProPlus.
Plan for additional languages
You can install language accessory packs after you've deployed Office 365 ProPlusin one of its base languages. There are two ways to install language accessory packs:
Have your users download and install the language accessory packs that they need from the Office 365 portal.
Use the Office Deployment Tool to deploy the appropriate language accessory packs to your users.
For more information, see Overview of deploying languages in Office 365 ProPlus.
Special considerations
The Office Customization Tool is not used as part of the Office 365 ProPlus installation. Instead, you can customize the installation for your users with the Office Deployment Tool. For more information, see Overview of the Office Deployment Tool.
Removal of InfoPath from Office 365 ProPlus. InfoPath 2013 remains the current version and therefore isn't included in Office 365 ProPlus. When you upgrade an existing installation of Office 2010 to Office 365 ProPlus, InfoPath is removed from the computer. If your users still need to use InfoPath, the 2013 version of InfoPath is available for installation on the Software page in the Office 365 portal.
Related topics
For articles about planning, deploying, and managing Office 365 ProPlus in an enterprise environment, see Deployment guide for Office 365 ProPlus.
To find out more about upgrading from Office 2010 servers, see Resources to help you upgrade from Office 2010 servers and clients.
For more information about Office 365 plans, see Office 365 Service Descriptions.
For more information about the support lifecycle for Microsoft products, see Microsoft Lifecycle Policy.
To discuss or learn more about end of support for Office versions, go to the Microsoft Office End of Support area of the Microsoft Tech Community.
Office for Mac that comes with an Office 365 subscription is updated on a regular basis to provide new features, security updates, and non-security updates. The following information is primarily intended for IT professionals that are deploying Office for Mac to the users in their organizations.
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- Starting with Version 16.21, Microsoft Teams will be installed by default for new installations if you're using the Office suite install package. For more information, see Microsoft Teams installations on a Mac.
- For security reason, Microsoft has deprecated the use of SHA-1. Learn more
- Starting with the 16.17 release in September 2018, this information also applies to Office 2019 for Mac, which is a version of Office for Mac that’s available as a one-time purchase from a retail store or through a volume licensing agreement.
- The update history information for version 16.16 and earlier also applies to Office 2016 for Mac, which is also a version of Office for Mac that’s available as a one-time purchase. Older versions up to and including 16.16 can be activated with an Office 2016 for Mac volume license. You can’t activate version 16.17 or later with an Office 2016 for Mac volume license. For information about Office 2016 for Mac releases from September onward, see Release notes for Office 2016 for Mac
- For information about the features, security updates, and non-security updates that are included in a given release of Office for Mac, see Release notes for Office for Mac.
- If you want early access to new releases, join the Office Insider program.
Most current packages for Office for Mac
The following table lists the most current packages for the Office suite and for the individual applications. The Office suite includes all the individual applications, such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. All packages are 64-bit only. The build date is listed in parentheses, in a YYMMDD format, after the version number. The install package is used if you don't have the application already installed, while the update package is used to update an existing installation.
To view release notes, see Release notes.
March 10, 2020
Version 16.35 (20030802)
| Application | Download links | SHA-256 hash for install package |
|---|---|---|
| Office suite (with Teams) | Install package | 8E86CC3EDDB5D7AD0EBA34264C6017D8B3DB9BBC425106F8C5B1BBAC1C7966DA |
| Office suite (without Teams) | Install package | DA6F028AB5A69FC48668A311A74231A9CDCDA1576D2EBB1C06E7A7DD53ED8510 |
| Word | Install package Update package | 27BB4CAD84F7E15AA5E0AB48C18E620F08A4AA1AF05352847E8AA8924390005F |
| Excel | Install package Update package | DFE5F4230DC3E4B85FF226E260580FBD5A85893DD17C6165721F92A03FDFDF91 |
| PowerPoint | Install package Update package | 65292F7CDA8C53FB796332B84398F3A4528831CCED9E7E5614A778055F7683AF |
| Outlook | Install package Update package | 92094986AE997694549E9FA54347663F4720B7842D6E5FF7525BBB4897EB5C94 |
| OneNote | Update package | Not applicable |
Most current packages for other Mac programs from Microsoft
The following table provides information about the most current packages, including a download link, for other Mac programs from Microsoft that may be of interest to IT professionals. The build date is listed in parentheses, in a YYMMDD format, after the version number.
Note: Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) release information has moved to the MAU Release History page.
| Program | Version | Package | More information | SHA-1/ SHA-256 hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skype for Business | 16.27.37 | Download | The latest version was released on June 23, 2019. Latest updates | ac33fbfa83e304e1ac3ba7365e8bf307b117ec954fd48902991356ee86f2e836 |
| Remote Desktop | 10.3.1 | Download | This install package is 64-bit. What's new | a846cecda7391b4e67c37b4b30a0c49ebd3c80f4782a989c0b4f866cd6d09339 |
| Intune Company Portal | 1.17 (52.1908008.000) [190823] | Download | What's new in Microsoft Intune | fec704b5194360a48365d0193a46135358c5f129fc2b1fb02acb902cd1f96de0 |
| Microsoft SharePoint On-Premises Safari Browser Plugin for Office 2016 for Mac | 15.32.0 (170309) | Download | This install package is 64-bit. | f7f29202881a319fb249d15ab6125b5a1a94b303c649cbe3fafb37ecd4728ed8 |
Release history for Office for Mac
Mac Microsoft Office Versions
The following table provides release history information and download links for Office for Mac. The table is ordered by release date, with the most recent release date listed first. The build date is listed in parentheses, in a YYMMDD format, after the version number. All releases after August 22, 2016 are 64-bit only. All releases prior to August 22, 2016 are 32-bit only.
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Install Microsoft Office On Mac
Download links are only provided for the most recent releases.
Microsoft Office For Mac Support
| Release date | Version | Install package | Update packages |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 10, 2020 | 16.35 (20030802) | Office suite (with Teams) Office suite (without Teams) | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote |
| February 11, 2020 | 16.34 (20020900) | Office suite (with Teams) Office suite (without Teams) | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote |
| January 14, 2020 | 16.33 (20011301) | Office suite (with Teams) Office suite (without Teams) | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote |
| December 10, 2019 | 16.32 (19120802) | Office suite (with Teams) Office suite (without Teams) | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote |
| November 12, 2019 | 16.31 (19111002) | Office suite (with Teams) Office suite (without Teams) | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote |
| October 15, 2019 | 16.30 (19101301) | Office suite (with Teams) Office suite (without Teams) | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote |
| September 18, 2019 | 16.29.1 (19091700) | Word, Excel, PowerPoint | |
| September 10, 2019 | 16.29 (19090802) | Office suite (with Teams) Office suite (without Teams) | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote |
| August 13, 2019 | 16.28 (19081202) | Office suite (with Teams) Office suite (without Teams) | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote |
| July 16, 2019 | 16.27 (19071500) | Office suite (with Teams) Office suite (without Teams) | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote |
| June 11, 2019 | 16.26 (19060901) | ||
| May 14, 2019 | 16.25 (19051201) | ||
| April 16, 2019 | 16.24 (19041401) | ||
| March 27, 2019 | 16.23.1 (19032603) | ||
| March 12, 2019 | 16.23.0 (19030902) | ||
| February 20, 2019 | 16.22 (19022000) | ||
| January 24, 2019 | 16.21 (19011700) | ||
| January 16, 2019 | 16.21 (19011500) | ||
| December 11, 2018 | 16.20 (18120801) | ||
| November 13, 2018 | 16.19 (18110915) | ||
| October 16, 2018 | 16.18 (18101400) | ||
| September 11, 2018 | 16.17 (18090901) | ||
| August 14, 2018 | 16.16 (18081201) | ||
| July 10, 2018 | 16.15 (18070902) | ||
| June 13, 2018 | 16.14.1 (18061302) | ||
| June 12, 2018 | 16.14.0 (18061000) | ||
| May 24, 2018 | 16.13.1 (18052304) | ||
| May 23, 2018 | 16.13.1 (18052203) | ||
| May 15, 2018 | 16.13.0 (18051301) | ||
| April 11, 2018 | 16.12.0 (18041000) | ||
| March 19, 2018 | 16.11.1 (18031900) | ||
| March 13, 2018 | 16.11.0 (18031100) | ||
| February 13, 2018 | 16.10.0 (18021001) | ||
| January 26, 2018 | 16.9.1 (18012504) | ||
| January 18, 2018 | 16.9.0 (18011602) | ||
| December 12, 2017 | 15.41.0 (17120500) | ||
| November 14, 2017 | 15.40.0 (17110800) | ||
| October 10, 2017 | 15.39.0 (17101000) | ||
| September 12, 2017 | 15.38.0 (17090200) | ||
| August 15, 2017 | 15.37.0 (17081500) | ||
| July 21, 2017 | 15.36.1 (17072101) | ||
| July 11, 2017 | 15.36.0 (17070200) | ||
| June 16, 2017 | 15.35.0 (17061600) | ||
| June 13, 2017 | 15.35.0 (17061000) | ||
| May 16, 2017 | 15.34.0 (17051500) | ||
| April 11, 2017 | 15.33.0 (17040900) | ||
| March 14, 2017 | 15.32.0 (17030901) | ||
| February 16, 2017 | 15.31.0 (17021600) | ||
| January 11, 2017 | 15.30.0 (17010700) |