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Microsoft Office, Microsoft's suite of productivity apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, has been immensely popular among both individuals and businesses for many, many years. The apps within Microsoft Office are some of the best Windows 10 apps available for completing work and schoolwork, and because of that, Microsoft Office has become the global standard for productivity. Every once in a while, Microsoft releases a new version of Office and its apps that feature several enhancements and additions. These improvements make the already-great Office user experience even better, which naturally leads to increased work efficiency.
The latest version of Microsoft Office to release was the 2019 variant, but Microsoft recently launched a new 2021 version of Office. Here's everything you need to know about Microsoft Office 2021, including where you'll be able to download it, what's new with the new version of Office, and more.
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Microsoft Office 2021 release date
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Microsoft recently launched the consumer version of Microsoft Office 2021 alongside Windows 11 on Oct. 5, 2021. Additionally, a special version of Office called Office LTSC that has most of the upgrades from Office 2021 was released on Sept. 16.
Based on comments from Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365 Jared Spataro, Office LTSC is meant for specific business circumstances rather than individual customers. "We have built Office LTSC for a limited set of specific situations: regulated devices that cannot accept feature updates for years at a time, process control devices on the manufacturing floor that are not connected to the internet, and specialty systems that must stay locked in time and require a long-term servicing channel."
For more information on how to get access to Office LTSC, check out Microsoft's Overview of Office LTSC 2021 and Deploy Office LTSC 2021 pages.
Microsoft Office 2021 system requirements
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There aren't any publicly released system requirements for Microsoft Office 2021 yet. That being said, we don't expect that the system requirements between Office 2019 and Office 2021 have changed much, if at all. Therefore, if you have a device that can support Office 2019, there's a very good chance it will also be able to run Office 2021 without issues. Here's a look at what Office 2019's system requirements are:
CPU: 1GHz dual-core processor GPYU: DirectX 9 or higher with WDDM 2.0 or higher Memory: 4GB RAM Storage: 4GB of available space Display: 1280x768 screen resolution Browser: Current version of Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Chrome, or Firefox .NET version: Some features require .NET 4.6 or higher Other: Some Outlook features require Microsoft Edge WebView2
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