

Office 365 ProPlus is the version of Office that comes with many Office 365 plans but it is also available as a standalone offering, as shown below. Customers with an active subscription will be entitled to the newest versions when available! Current Office application versions for Office 365 are based on Office 2013 for Windows and Office 2011 for Mac. Many Office 365 plans also include the desktop version of the latest Office applications, which users can install across multiple computers and devices.

Office 365 refers to subscription plans that include access to Office applications plus other productivity services that are enabled over the Internet (cloud services), such as Lync web conferencing and Exchange Online hosted email for business, and additional online storage with OneDrive and Skype world minutes for home. These suites do not come with any cloud-based services included in Office 365 plans. All the new Office suites (for example, Office Professional 2013) include the latest versions of these applications. Microsoft Office suites have traditionally included desktop version of applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. This is called the Current Branch for Business release.'įrom: Prepare to update Office 365 ProPlus to the Office 2016 version A few times a year, we’ll provide an update to Office 365 ProPlus for you to test and deploy that contains those feature changes and bug fixes. If you prefer, you have the option to receive only security updates for Office 365 ProPlus each month, and instead defer for several months receiving any features changes and bug fixes. This is called the Current Branch release. One choice is a monthly update to Office 365 ProPlus, which can contain new or updated features, bug fixes, and security patches. 'In Office 2016, you can control how fast your users receive feature updates to Office 365 ProPlus. How do I update Office to Office 2016 using Office 365 for business?ĭownload and install Office using Office 365 for business on your PC Check following links to find out what version of Office you are running and how to update to the latest version of Office. * Update: With the release of Office 2016 (22nd September 2015) you may wonder how and when you can update the version of Office you use with your Office 365 for business subscription.
