Microsoft’s Support For Office 2013 Has Concluded

What does this mean for you? If you are still running Office 2013 as of April 11th 2023 Microsoft has stopped issuing patches for the product. One of the problems in the future is how Office 2013 products will integrate with Office 365. We have seen in the past that the connectors have stopped working for earlier versions of office with the Office 365 hosted e-mail functions. So, this could happen with Office 2013 as well. The larger problem for organizations continuing to use this product, though, could be security issues, as Microsoft isn't obligated to patch those problems as well.

Microsoft's goal is to move everyone to their subscription services instead of using perpetual licensing. The benefit to you as a user of this type of product is that your software is always being updated. The downside is that you have a monthly or annual payment commitment to Microsoft for using this subscription.

Office 2016 and Office 2019 those will reach their end of support phases on October 10th 2023. Office 2016 followed the traditional 10 years of support model, but office 2019 got truncated to seven years of support. These are not the only products from Microsoft whose support is expiring this year. Windows Server 2012r2 is also expiring this Fall as well.