
Spataro also noted that Microsoft wants users to remember that the connected Office 365 apps will offer higher productivity because of their cloud connectivity and a higher degree of security.

So our way of talking about the cloud versions of Office 365 is that they’re connected, that this breathes life into them.” “Office 2019, all the features that we released in it, had previously been released in Office 365.

“We are really working very hard to position Office 365 in all its flavors - ProPlus for the commercial users - as very different from these versions of Office that have a year number in them,” Microsoft’s corporate VP for Office and Windows Jared Spataro told me. That’s because at this point, Office 2019 is basically a limited version that doesn’t include the most interesting new features of its Office 365 subscription counterpart. But it’s really not the version of Office that Microsoft would like you to buy - or that you probably want to have.

It’s the kind of Office that, 10 years ago, you would’ve bought in a shrink-wrapped package at Office Depot. Microsoft released Office 2019 for Windows and macOS this week, the latest version of its regular, non-subscription productivity suite.
