Microsoft has launched Workplace 2024 for small companies and shoppers who need a standalone model with no Microsoft 365 subscription.
Workplace 2024 consists of up to date, locked-in-time variations of Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook for Home windows and macOS methods.
It additionally requires a Microsoft account and an web connection (probably wanted in the course of the set up and for getting updates), and runs on Home windows 10 and 11 and the three most up-to-date macOS variations.
Beginning this Tuesday, two editions of Workplace 2024 can be found from Microsoft.com and retailers worldwide.
Workplace Dwelling 2024 prices $149.99 and consists of Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for one PC or Mac, whereas Workplace Dwelling & Enterprise 2022 prices $249.99 and offers all the pieces in Workplace Dwelling 2024 plus Outlook and business use rights.
Workplace 2024 consists of many enhancements and person interface modifications in comparison with Workplace 2021, probably the most instantly noticeable of which is a brand new default theme that makes use of Fluent Design rules to offer an intuitive, acquainted expertise throughout all Workplace apps.
Different highlights of this new Workplace model embody assist for the OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.4, quicker Excel workbooks for fewer delays and hang-ups, closed captions for video and audio embedded in shows, and improved e-mail, calendars, and contacts search.
It additionally consists of doc restoration, a function ported from Microsoft 365 that auto-saves open paperwork earlier than Phrase 2024 crashes unexpectedly and lets you proceed the place you left off.
As introduced earlier in September, beginning in Workplace 2024, Microsoft may even flip off ActiveX controls by default in Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio shopper apps, a measure probably prompted by ActiveX’s well-known safety points.
As an illustration, Andariel North Korean hackers exploited ActiveX zero-day vulnerabilities to deploy information-stealing malware, and different menace teams used ActiveX controls to deploy TrickBot malware and Cobalt Strike beacons in enterprise community breaches.
Final month, Microsoft additionally rolled out Workplace LTSC (Lengthy Time period Servicing Channel) 2024, a volume-licensed and perpetual model of Workplace for Home windows and macOS customers, for business and authorities clients.
“In case you are already utilizing Microsoft 365 or in case your group deployed Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise to the customers in your group, you do not want Workplace 2024 or Workplace LTSC 2024,” mentioned Microsoft 365 Shopper VP Bryan Rognier.
“Your Microsoft 365 subscription already has all of the options included in Workplace 2024 or Workplace LTSC 2024, together with many extra options that are not included in Workplace 2024 or Workplace LTSC 2024.”
The corporate first introduced Workplace 2024 and Workplace LTSC 2024 in March and launched a business preview for Home windows and macOS clients one month later, in April 2024.