Office 2007: the end is coming. Microsoft has announced that the company's support for Microsoft Office 2007 will end on October 10, 2017.
Office 2007 was the first version of the office suite to feature the Ribbon interface instead of the classic toolbars and menus we were familiar with. It was also the version of Office that introduced new Open XML file formats, docx, pptx, and xlsx.
The Office program was first released on January 30, 2007, and mainstream support ended on October 9, 2012. So the time is coming for the end of extended support for the product, which will end on October 10, 2017.
End of life for a Microsoft product means that Microsoft will no longer release updates for the product. This includes security updates, but also any other form of update, such as bug fixes. Additionally, Microsoft will no longer provide technical support for any issues that customers may encounter.
Microsoft has published a list of Office 2007 products that will be discontinued.
Office 2007 programs such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint will continue to work after the end of support. On the other hand, Microsoft Outlook will not be able to connect to Office 365 mailboxes after October 10, 2017. This means that users who use Outlook 2007 to send or receive Office 365 emails will no longer be able to do so.
The reason for this is that Microsoft will be deprecating RPC over HTTP in Office 365 on October 31, 2017.
On October 31, 2017, RPC over HTTP will be deprecated in Exchange Online and replaced with MAPI over HTTP, a modern protocol that was released in May 2014. This change will affect you if you are running Outlook 2007 because it will not work with MAPI over HTTP. To continue email connectivity, Outlook 2007 clients will need to update to a newer version of Outlook or use Outlook on the web. This change may also affect you if you are using Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013, and Outlook 2010, as you will need to make sure that you have installed the latest cumulative update for your version of Office.
