Microsoft Office 2016

Microsoft Office 2016
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseSeptember 22, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-09-22)
Stable release(s) [±]
RetailVersion 2410 (Build 18129.20158) / November 12, 2024; 13 days ago (2024-11-12)[1]
Volume licensedNovember 2024 PU / November 12, 2024; 13 days ago (2024-11-12)[2]
Operating systemWindows 7 SP1 or later
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or later[3]
PlatformIA-32, x64
PredecessorMicrosoft Office 2013 (2013)
SuccessorMicrosoft Office 2019 (2018)
Available in102 languages[4]
List of languages
  • Full (40): Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (Latin), Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin, Serbia), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
  • Partial (51): Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani (Latin), Bangla (Bangladesh), Bangla (Bengali India), Basque (Basque), Belarusian, Bosnian (Latin), Catalan, Dari, Filipino, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Icelandic, Irish, Kannada, Khmer, KiSwahili, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian (FYROM Macedonia), Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Norwegian Nynorsk, Odia, Persian (Farsi), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Quechua, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia & Herzegovina), Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia), Sindhi (Arabic), Sinhala, Tamil, Tatar (Cyrillic), Telugu, Turkmen (Latin), Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek (Latin), Valencian, Welsh
  • Proofing only (11): Hausa, Igbo, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Kinyarwanda, Pashto, Romansh, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, Wolof, Yoruba
TypeOffice suite
LicenseTrialware
OneNote 2016: Freemium
Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseJuly 9, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-07-09)[5]
Stable release16.16.27 (20101200) (October 13, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-10-13)[6]) [±]
Operating systemOS X Yosemite or later[3]
Platformx64[7]
PredecessorMicrosoft Office 2013
SuccessorMicrosoft Office 2019
Available in27 languages[8]
List of languages
English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Microsoft Office 2016 (codenamed Office 16) is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, succeeding both Office 2013 and Office for Mac 2011 and preceding Office 2019 for both platforms. It was released on macOS on July 9, 2015, and on Microsoft Windows on September 22, 2015, for Office 365 subscribers.[5][9] Mainstream support ended on October 13, 2020, and extended support for most editions of Office 2016 will end on October 14, 2025.[10] The perpetually licensed version on macOS and Windows was released on September 22, 2015.[11] Office 2016 is compatible with Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 through Windows 11 v23H2 and Windows Server 2022. It also requires OS X Yosemite at the minimum. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 RTM–v1803 and Windows Server 2016.[12][better source needed]

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  10. ^ "Search product lifecycle – Office 2016". support.microsoft.com. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
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