Microsoft Office 2013 support ends on April 11, 2023

Microsoft Office 2013 will reach End of Service on April 11, 2023. The standalone Office suite will no longer receive security updates after the end of support date.

Customers running Office 2013 on their devices can continue to use the product as its core functionality will work the same as before the end of support date. However, security issues and major bugs will no longer be resolved.

Microsoft has posted a support page on its lifecycle website that provides additional details. As far as products go, the following Office products will reach end of support in April 2023:

Applications: Access 2013, Excel 2013, Lync 2013 y Lync Phone Edition, Office 2013, OneNote 2013, Outlook 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Project 2013, Publisher 2013, Skype Empresarial 2015, Visio 2013, Word 2013
server: Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, Office Web Apps Server 2013, Project Server 2013, SharePoint Foundation 2013, SharePoint Server 2013

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Originally released on January 9, 2013, Microsoft has supported Office 2013 with updates ever since. The company released a single service pack for Office in 2014, and this version will be supported until April 2023. Mainstream support for Office 2013 ended on April 20, 2018; Since then, only major security updates and bug fixes have been released for the Office program.

Microsoft suggests that customers migrate to Microsoft 365 or Office 365 respectively. Both products are subscription based. Customers have other options, including purchasing newer standalone copies of Office. Available for purchase are Office 2016, Office 2019, and Office 2021, which Microsoft released last year. The end of support dates and the functionality that is provided are different for each of the products.

These are the end of support dates for the standalone Office products.

Office 2016 — October 14, 2025
Office 2019 — October 14, 2025
Office 2021 — October 13, 2026

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Microsoft changed from a ten-year support cycle to a five-year support cycle. The Office LTSC 2021 release, the Long Term Servicing Channel release, has exactly the same End of Support as the regular Office 2021 product for home users.

Office 2013 customers can also switch to free Office solutions. The most popular Office alternative is probably LibreOffice at the moment.

Now you: Do you use an Office program? If so, which one and why (that one)?

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