Microsoft is preparing to make a seismic shift in the Office productivity ecosystem by phasing out several popular voice-enabled features from older Office 365 versions by January 2026. The abruptness of this change is reverberating far beyond individual users—entire organizations now face a...
Microsoft’s Great Office Exodus: The Sunset of Office 2016 and 2019 and What it Means for You
October 14, 2025, is shaping up to be a watershed moment in the Windows ecosystem. It’s the day when Microsoft will retire support not only for the ubiquitous Windows 10 operating system but also for...
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October 14, 2025. It sounds like a date out of a near-future sci-fi thriller, perhaps the day AI finally wins an Oscar, or coffee beans run out for good. But for millions of Microsoft Office users, it's a very different kind of drama: it's the cutoff when Office 2016 and Office 2019, those loyal...
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We upgraded Office Home and Student 2010 a month or so ago. It works fine on one account but Word freezes when trying to save a file on another account. The Excel works ok.
I have to restart to get out of it. I opened another account to see if it would work, it did. Any suggestions on how...