Microsoft also did not offer any other pricing guidance beyond what it had said in February, which was that it did not plan to change the prices for this new release. On Thursday, Microsoft added the ship date of October 5. Microsoft will release Office 2021 for personal and small business users “later this year,” Microsoft said in a blog post in February. It will include some, but not all of the features of Microsoft’s perpetually-updating cloud productivity service Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to launch Office 2021, a standalone version of Office 365, on Oct.
