You're essentially paying for a new license every month. By being subscription software, MS can add new features to it whenever they want, just as Adobe does with the CC Suite. It, in turn, will never get anything but bug fixes and performance updates from here on out. Those that were ready to incorporate were all added to Office 2019. Hence, Office 2016 will never see any additional features. Otherwise, it must be released as a new paid version. Only performance improvements and bug fixes. You can still buy it and MS is still supporting it with updates, but why would you want it now that Office 2019 is out? Per federal regulations, paid perpetual license software cannot gain new, significant features. Office 2016, for all intents and purposes, is dead. I'm not clear why you think this is exclusively a Microsoft thing.

That's why there are updates, such as to macOS itself. So I have no idea what you mean by 'horror'.Īll complex software is 'under construction'. Other than an early bug that caused it to frequently come up asking you to sign in - again - it ran just fine. I used Office 2016 since the day it was released.

Microsoft 2011 for mac updates