I would be interested in seeing any resources you mention. We signed a 5 yr EA last year, with the plan of keeping on-prem Office 2016 throughout, connecting to our O365.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 12:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Perhaps of general interest... I'm just curious. Sorry if my question seemed overly blunt. My understanding was that Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote from MSI would stop connecting to online services in 2018. But I can't find the resource where I read that... perhaps I imagined it. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 3:14 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps of general interest... I believe so. I'll have to check. At the worst, we have the MSI installs grandfathered in to whatever is current. Kurt On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > For office msi? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 2:50 PM > To: ntsysadm > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps of general interest... > > Not for at least another 3 years, and possibly longer - we just signed an EA. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Then you are going to need to switch to something other than Microsoft >> Office. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 2:07 PM >> To: ntsysadm >> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps of general interest... >> >> Yes, but I prefer to "own" my software, not rent it. That way we can upgrade >> at need, rather than when the vendor says so, and will probably spend far >> less money doing so. >> >> The "own" in quotes merely points to not paying monthly rental - we all know >> that commercial software is only licensed, not truly sold. >> >> I just don't want to be a piggybank for the software publishers - I don't >> mind paying for good functionality, nor paying for ongoing support. >> >> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Many big vendors today are pushing a cloud strategy, as it more >>> readily facilitates ongoing revenue and supporting a smaller number >>> of disparate configurations. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> ASB >>> http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker >>> >>> Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market… >>> >>> GPG: 860D 40A1 4DA5 3AE1 B052 8F9F 07A1 F9D6 A549 8842 >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Very interesting. >>>> >>>> MSFT is shoving very, very hard to push everyone into their cloud, >>>> and this fits their strategy... >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Michael B. Smith >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/02/microsoft-is-laying-off-thousan >>>> > d >>>> > s >>>> > -of-staff/?ncid=rss >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > >
