Outlook 2010

Heck, I'm still using Office Professional Hybrid 2007 on W10.
Can't remember the last time I used Outlook tho.

Metricman, where did you purchase this for such a low price? A quick Google search shows a mishmosh of different versions of Office. One reviewer said the software was for the Eurozone only!

dobs108

Ever asked yourself what is Outlook support? Personally in all my years of using the product, probably close to 30 years, I have never needed to call or log a case with Microsoft. I am currently using Outlook 2007 on one PC and it works fine. There are by the way Office updates that incorporate numerous fixes and security updates. When you do an Office update from any product, say Word, Excel, Powerpoint, then all installed Office products are updated.

The support will end but the product continues. I'm still using word 2007 and Frontpage 2003. All's good

Yep, Support is calling MS on the phone for help.

Never used Support, but the updates keep on coming. So the 2007 product is still good.

Can't seeing buying a new version just for Support. Maybe if it was a feature I needed then I would buy another.

Still happily using Office 2003. Word,Excel & Outlook & Windows 10.

Works great. Don't need any fancy stuff.

To me support is security patches that Microsoft releases every 2nd Tuesday of the month.

I don't know how you keep getting Office 2007 updates. There have been no more patches for Office 2007 for a while now.

As I explained in my post, customers with a "Site License" may be eligible to use the MS "Home Use" programs. Companies that have a "Site License" are companies with lots of computers running MS software. MS offers employees of those companies huge discounts on the same software that the companies use at their site. You have to log in to the special MS site, enter a code and pay by CC. MS then sends an email to your work email (must be your work email or no go) with the D/L instructions and a code for downloading. You then forward that email to your Home email and D/L the software at home. You can also order a back-up disc.

Go to Google and type in:

Microsoft Home Use Program

You will get plenty of info. But remember, you will only be able to buy the software that your company has a license for. I don't know what number of PCs qualifies a company for this.

If you work for a large corporation that has a couple of hundred PCs running MS software, then search your internal website for "Home Use" or contact your IT folks.

Of course, support for Frontpage ended a long time ago. And any Office Upgrade will uninstall Frontpage - which infuriated the daylight out of me.

There is a "Free" upgrade that is really Frontpage that is enhanced. It is called "Microsoft Expression Web". I like it better than Frontpage. But of course, there is no longer any support for it.

I had a problem with Word's "numbering" pertaining to "Appendixes". Took a long time to get MS to understand that something in the code changed and screwed up how Appendixes worked. My company had strict rules about numbering procedures. I retired before the issue was resolved.

So much for the value of "Support".

"Support" for Windows of various levels is different than support for perpetual Office products. Quoting from https://www.zdnet.com/article/when-will-microsoft-pull-the-p...

I too am using the FrontPage 2002 sp3 and Office 2003 versions w/o any problems. Not to worry!

Search product lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search

Not that I really care if you believe me or not, but I can tell you this. And I can't give you the specific MS patch ID's because I am no longer on W7 and able to see the individual updates on W10. BUT on a semi-regular basis I WAS getting MS Office 2007 up;dates/fixes on Patch Tuesday as late as Fall of 2019.

I suppose if I was really motivated I could restore my last W7 backup, boot it up, and read through all the installed patches, but I'm not that motivated for extra work to fill my time with no real benefit to me.

PS: And the same thing goes for the Office 2013 on my desktop.

According to the Microsoft update catalog, the last batch of updates for Office 2007 were issued on 2/7/2019, essentially a year ago. The list can be found at https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=Offic.... Toggle the "Last Updated" column at the top to sort the list by oldest or newest.

People are known to confuse Windows Updates with Office updates.
With any Office product, if you have automatic updates enabled for Windows, then the appropriate Office product will also be updated. You may be told they are available, but you won't necessarily be told nothing is available. I also think, but I'm not certain, that if you manually initiate a Windows update, (as I did with Windows 10 a week ago) you will not get Office updates. After my most recent Windows 10 update, I had to go to an Office 2016 product and manually initiate the Office updates.

There were 8 Outlook 2010 security and critical updates in 2019. The most recent was October 8.

Thanks for the link.

If you are getting updates as late as Fall 2019, you weren't updating once a month. For the same reason someone can still get Office 2007 updates at the end of 2020 or at any time if they reinstall Office 2007 (and if Microsoft is still hosting the updates).

It does not matter what OS you are running, Win 7 or 10, Office is Office regardless of the OS it is installed and running on. No one is asking you to reinstall to find out.

1st quarter of 2019 sounds about right. I manage WSUS (Windows Server Update Service) and have not seen Office 2007 updates for months.

There's an option "Give me updates for Microsoft products and check for new optional MS software when I update Windows". Enable that. You'll get Office updates and other MS product updates as well. Doesn't matter if you check for updates manually or Windows does it automatically. It'll show you updates if they're available.

Not so interested in office 365

Still using 2007 on W7-64
I see no upgrades here

Unlike Adobe (Photoshop), Microsoft still offers Office Pro 2019 for 1 time purchase (non subscription pricing):

Classic 2019 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, plus Publisher and Access
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/office-professional-2019/c...

There is nothing wrong with Office 2007, 2003 or older versions if you want to keep using them. It's just that you won't be able to open documents created with the latest Office suite.

I'm still using Office Professional 2007.

If you are running Windows 10 it is possible to get a legal copy of Office Pro Plus 2019 for $100 vs. the Microsoft "list" price of $440. Go to https://indigosoftwarecompany.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiAhJTyBRAvEiw... to see the offering.

The company Indigo Software is owned by a Marine in Texas (see https://indigosoftwarecompany.com/pages/about-us). I have used them on several occasions for Windows updates and Microsoft product updates.

One caveat, and I mentioned it up front, you must be running Windows 10.

That's more than 75% discount. Smells fishy. I'm not saying they sell pirated software. They may be selling software keys designed for different group of users (eg: technet members) that allows multiple activations.

Someone bought Windows 10 Pro from them but was refunded when he/she can't activate it. I guess the key has reached the maximum number of activations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PcRetailers/comments/ecvx1e/indigos...

...about two years ago I bought a copy of Windows 7 Pro for an XP machine, then did the upgrade to Windows 10 that was allowed by MS. On another machine (Windows Vista for Business) I bought Win 10, I think about $50, trouble free install. Then installed Office 2016, again purchased from Indigo.

By the way Windows has a way to check if Windows has been legitimately activated. All report as OK.

The key may be authentic but doesn't necessarily mean they can sell it. There used to be a lot of SQL, Exchange Server setup media on Ebay. They're all marked NFR (not for resale). Microsoft gives them away at a convention. It's an honor system but some people sell them anyway. I got one Windows 7 Ultimate NFR version back when Microsoft introduced Win 7 at a convention and I'm still using it today.

Thanks for this!

@metricman: Outlook 2010 is still working for you?? I haven't tried it lately but I gave up on it sometime around 2016/2017 because since about 2015 it had gotten increasingly buggy for me, forcing me several times a year to uninstall and reinstall it to be able to get and retain my email and address book.

Tired of the ongoing timesuck, I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/download/

(free, with annual donations appreciated), which has performed reliably with the parts of Outlook 2010 that I needed. T-bird also has the bonus of having a similar user interface to Outlook 2010. You can transfer old emails from Outlook as well. I'm not missing Outlook 2010 at all; Thunderbird has been an upgrade.

i have never used Outlook support.