Skip to main content
Licensing
Please provide feedback on the new Product Terms site using the feedback button below. You may continue to access prior and current versions of the Product Terms and Online Services Terms documents here.
Search Terms


Office Desktop Applications (Windows)

Showing terms for the Open Value / Open Value Subscription (OV/OVS) program. Not all terms apply to all products and programs. Get help selecting a program.

Availability

Use the chart below to see which Office Desktop Applications (Windows) products are available with which programs.
Product OV/OVS Date Available Program Attribute
Access LTSC 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Excel LTSC 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021 10/21 Enterprise Product,Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Office LTSC Standard 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Office Multi Language Pack 2013 10/12 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Outlook LTSC 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
PowerPoint LTSC 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Project Professional 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Project Standard 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Publisher LTSC 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Skype for Business LTSC 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Visio LTSC Professional 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Visio LTSC Standard 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value
Word LTSC 2021 10/21 Non-Organization Wide in Open Value

Product Conditions:

Provides additional information related to acquiring the Product, such as prerequisites for purchase, prior versions, and the applicable Product Pool.

Product Conditions - General
Prior VersionOffice 2019 and Office 2019 Applications (10/18)
Product PoolApplication
PromotionsNone
Product Conditions - Program Specific
Qualified User ExemptionNone
UTD DiscountOffice Professional Plus

Platform Independent

Customer may run either the version licensed or a different platform version, provided that the different platform version was available when the original licensed version became available. If the components of a Product suite vary by platform version, Customer may use the components of the suite that it chooses to deploy and only those components; Customer may not mix components across platform versions. SA for a platform independent License permits Customer to use, in place of the licensed Product the most current version of either platform version of the Product that becomes available during the term of coverage.

Office Online Server

Customers purchasing Office Standard 2016 or Office Professional Plus 2016 licenses before August 1, 2016 may use the editing functionality described in Software Assurance Benefits, Office for the web services and Office Online Server section with those licenses. This right expires on August 1, 2019.

Use Rights

Identifies the License Terms for each Software Product, including the Universal License Terms, the applicable License Model, and any Product-Specific License Terms. References in Customer’s volume licensing agreement to “Use Rights” refer to the terms included in the Use Rights section of each Software Product Entry.

Use Rights
License TermsUniversal License Terms for all Software
Down EditionsNone
External User Access RequirementsNone
Included TechnologiesOffice Web Apps Server 2013 (Office suites only)
NoticesH.264 and/or VC-1 (Skype for Business), Internet-based Features, H.265/HEVC - refer to Notices

License Model

Desktop Applications

Device License

  1. Customer may install any number of copies of the software on a Licensed Device and on any Server for each License it acquires. Any Server that is under the management or control of an entity other than Customer or one of its Affiliates is subject to the Outsourcing Software Management clause.
  2. Unless Customer licenses the software as an Enterprise Product or on a company-wide basis, it may also install the software on a single portable device for use by the Primary User of the Licensed Device.
  3. Any number of users may use the software running on a Licensed Device, but only one user may access and use the software at a time.
  4. Remote use of the software running on a Licensed Device is permitted for the Primary User from any device or for any other user from another Licensed Device.
  5. Remote use of the software running on a Server is permitted for any user from a Licensed Device.

Media Elements and Templates

Microsoft grants Customer a license to copy, distribute, perform and display media elements (images, clip art, animations, sounds, music, video clips, templates and other forms of content) included with the software and the Office web apps in projects and documents, except that Customer may not sell, license or distribute copies of any media elements by themselves or as a product if the primary value of the product is the media elements.

Software Assurance

Identifies terms and conditions associated with Software Assurance coverage. For details on purchasing Software Assurance and general Software Assurance Benefits, also refer to Software Assurance Benefits.

Software Assurance
SA BenefitsApplication
Disaster RecoveryNone
License MobilityNone
Migration RightsProduct List - June 2015 (Office Multi-Language Pack and Visio Premium 2010)
Roaming RightsOffice, Project and Visio
Self HostingNone
SA Equivalent RightsNone
Prerequisite (SA)See Software Assurance Benefits

Related Resources

Back To Top