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Office Home & Business 2024 or Office Home & Student 2024 are also available for Mac for a one-off purchase. The Office applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote are available for Mac. The Publisher and Access applications are not available for Mac.

Currently, we only offer Office 2024 Home and Business that works on Mac. In general, consumer customers can purchase Microsoft Office 2024 for Windows and Mac, and business customers can now purchase Microsoft Office LTSC for Windows and Mac. Office 2024 and Office LTSC 2024 are the next permanent releases of Office. They include improvements over Microsoft Office 2019 and previous versions of Office on-premises.

Retail versions of Office 2024 will be supported until October 13, 2026, with no extended support period, unlike older Office versions.

Office 2024 is compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11, specifically designed to work with these newer versions of the Windows operating system.

For installation, activation, and downloading updates for Office 2024, internet access is required. Once installed and activated, core applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can be used offline. However, some specific features and services, such as Office updates and cloud services (e.g., OneDrive), still require an internet connection.

Officially, Microsoft Edge cannot be uninstalled as it is deeply integrated into Windows. It is recommended to set another browser as the default if you do not wish to use Edge, as attempting advanced removals could affect the system.

Office LTSC is the latest perpetual version of Office for business and government customers, a license-based license available as a one-time “perpetual” purchase, available for both platforms (Windows and Mac). Like the previous version Office 2021, Office LTSC will include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access (Windows only) and Publisher (Windows only).