Office 365 is a software as a service (SAAS) model – rather than building and running servers ourselves on premise to provide services like email and file storage we use the Office 365 platform which offers tight integration and frequent feature updates. A side effect of subscribing to any service like this is that the clients (ie Outlook, MacMail) connecting to it need to have a minimal set of features in order to give full functionality and remain secure.
As of October 2020, Microsoft will be ending support for Office 2013 and older versions of the Office suite; these will no longer be able to work with Office 365 – use of Office 2013 is fairly low so the impact from this is expected to be minimal.
If you are using an older version of Office you can contact AskOtago to arrange for an upgrade or try it out for yourself – take a look at the blog post below for more information.
