Microsoft announces Office 2021 for Windows and Mac.
                     MICROSOFT 
ANNOUNCES 
OFFICE 2021 
FOR 
WINDOWS 
AND MAC
INTRODUCTION
Microsoft has announced Office 2021 and 
office 2021 LTSC for small and personal 
business use. The Long Term Channel 
version is for small commercial players and 
its preview will be available in April. 
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PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
Office 2021 LTSC will have dark mode 
support across multiple platforms and will 
also bring performance improvements 
across multiple applications like Outlook, 
Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
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GENERAL AVAILABILITY
Microsoft in its blog post mentioned that 
both Office 2021 and Office 2021 LTSC will 
be available for use later this year. Details of 
the applications will be let out before their 
general availability.
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DARK MODE SUPPORT
The successor to Office 2019 will have dark 
mode support across multiple apps and 
capabilities like Dynamic Arrays and 
XLOOKUP in Microsoft Excel. 
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BETTER ACCESSIBILITY
The new version will have improved Word, 
Outlook and PowerPoint features, both 
performance and accessibility wise.
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MICROSOFT TEAMS
However Skype for Business will not come 
with the new version of Office, instead, 
users have to separately download it. 
Instead, it will bundle Microsoft Teams for 
group chats and video calls.
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FEATURES
The features will ship with the OneNote app 
and have both 32-bit and 64-bit support. 
With Office LTSC, users have to take a 
device-based “perpetual” license. 
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PRICE
The price of Office Professional Plus, Office 
Standard, and the individual apps will be 
increased by 10 per cent for the general 
users.
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ONEDRIVE CLOUD STORAGE
Office 2021will come with OneDrive cloud 
storage and an all-new Outlook apart from 
all Office apps. 
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SUBSCRIPTION
One can subscribe to Microsoft 365 personal 
for Rs 420 per month while Microsoft 365 
Family comes for Rs 530 per month.
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