Microsoft to end support for Office 2021 this year
THE SO WHAT
Perpetual licenses are quietly turning into forced upgrade timers — October becomes a hard boundary for any regulated or security-conscious org still on Office 2021. If you have macros, plugins, or offline workflows tied to this stack, treat this as a deprecation event and schedule migration testing now, not in Q4.
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