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If you don't want anything to do with Windows 10 they've lost you as a customer already. Losing sales to people who refuse to update to Windows 10 will be more than offset by people who upgrade in order to use this version of Office, not to mention the savings from not supporting and testing for older versions of Windows.

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I don't see many people upgrading Windows in order to upgrade Office. Those, who are enthusiasts, that have to have the latest version, are on Windows 10 already. Those who are conservative and have older Windows edition, and will have similar attitude to upgrading the Office.

Looking around me, people are fine to run 2007/2010/2013, it seems I'm the only one running 2016.

What I see to be a worse thing than supporting Windows 10 only, is that for the retail/non-o365 version there is no install media. It is click-to-run only.

> What I see to be a worse thing than supporting Windows 10 only, is that for the retail/non-o365 version there is no install media. It is click-to-run only.

Why is that? Because of the necessity to download a multi-GB install file after purchasing the key?

As long as you can download the installer once and save it to DVD/USB, I think that's a legitimate decision too. Producing physical install media, boxes etc. is an overhead that I'm guessing most people would rather do without these days.

You can use the same installer file (downloaded once) for multiple installations. It works as long as you bought the required licenses. So packaged installer media would only really benefit people in remote places where an internet connection is non-existent or slow/expensive, but MS has obviously decided to optimise that case out.

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