Microsoft Office 2021 will stop receiving security updates on October 13, 2026, turning the cheap “lifetime” licenses you may come across online into a poor purchase just weeks before the deadline. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook will still function, but Microsoft won’t patch newly discovered vulnerabilities from the said date onward.
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