Your Microsoft Retailer Workplace apps are dropping safety updates in 2026
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In abstract:
- PCWorld reviews that Microsoft is ending assist for Microsoft Retailer variations of Workplace apps by December 2026, slicing off safety updates.
- Customers should migrate to Click on-to-Run variations to keep up ongoing safety patches and have updates, as new options already stopped in October 2025.
- The Workplace Deployment Instrument facilitates this transition, providing background updates and fast app launch capabilities for continued safety.
A few yr in the past, we reported on Microsoft imposing a deadline for customers who nonetheless depend on Microsoft Retailer variations of Workplace apps: beginning December 2026, the Retailer variations of Workplace apps will now not be supported, which means they gained’t obtain safety updates anymore.
That deadline is on our minds once more as Microsoft has just lately up to date this assist web page (noticed by Home windows Newest), urging customers to modify to Click on-to-Run variations of Workplace ahead of later:
Assist for the Microsoft Retailer set up sort of Microsoft 365 Apps is ending. New characteristic updates stopped in October 2025 and safety updates will finish in December 2026.
When you have the Microsoft Retailer set up sort of Microsoft 365 Apps, you have to improve to the Click on-to-Run set up sort for persevering with new options and safety updates.
Meaning should you’re nonetheless operating variations of Microsoft Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, and many others. that had been put in through the Microsoft Retailer, you’ll want to modify to their Click on-to-Run options.
Not like a standard installer file, which holds the complete app and should set up your complete factor earlier than you can begin utilizing it, Click on-to-Run is extra like a patcher that permits you to instantly launch an app and begin utilizing it whereas it downloads and installs the remainder of it within the background.
Moreover, whereas a historically put in app requires periodic replace checks and patches, Click on-to-Run apps are robotically up to date within the background and don’t require restarts, so your workflows stay uninterrupted at the same time as elements are up to date.
The best technique to swap from Microsoft Retailer Workplace apps to their Click on-to-Run variants is to obtain the Workplace Deployment Instrument (ODT), a command-line utility that permits you to obtain and deplay Click on-to-Run variations of Workplace apps.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
