Microsoft announces end of support for Windows 10 Mobile Office apps

Microsoft announces end of support for Windows x Mobile Role apps

Users have until January twelfth, 2021 to transition to Office mobile apps on other platforms

If you're still using Microsoft'southward Office apps on a Windows 10 Mobile device, you may want to switch to a unlike platform soon.

The Redmond, Washington-based visitor announced that come Jan 12th, 2021, it would no longer support Office apps on the Windows 10 Mobile platform. This follows the initial announcement that the company would end support for Windows 10 Mobile on December 10th, 2019.

"Microsoft remains committed to providing a great Office experience on phones for consumer, commercial, didactics, and government users through the iOS and Android apps which continue to exist supported. You tin get the Office iOS and Android apps through the app stores for those platforms," the visitor wrote in a post on its Tech Customs forum.

The visitor says its Office mobile fall under its Modern Lifecycle Policy, which ways the company will provide bug and security fixes to its apps through until the end of its lifecycle, likewise known equally it'southward end of support.

For users, this means they won't exist able to install the Windows ten Mobile Office apps subsequently January 12th, 2021. For those who have the apps installed already, they will proceed to piece of work as normal but Microsoft volition no longer provide technical support for issues, issues fixes or security fixes.

In the post, Microsoft recommended that anyone who wishes to use Part on mobile should switch to the latest apps on iOS and Android. While the Windows 10 Mobile apps will still work, the lack of security updates could exist a significant issue going forward.

Thankfully, you exercise have a little over a year to make the transition if yous oasis't already, just y'all'd be ameliorate off doing it sooner rather than later.

Source: Microsoft