Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac is the next perpetual update to the productivity applications on Mac and ships alongside Office 2019 for Windows, while the beta version have been available for volume license customers who intends to run the "perpetual" version of the suite.
The company now requires that Office 365 subscribers on Mac to run either macOS Sierra or macOS High Sierra to be eligible to receive the next update which will be pushed out next month.
What this means is that the following Office applications: Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint will be updated to the new Office 2019 labels, for those subscribers that are running macOS 10.12 (Sierra) or 10.13 (High Sierra).
According to Microsoft, with the Office 365 for Mac September 2018 update, macOS 10.12 or later is required to update to the new version of the Office client apps for Mac and to receive new feature updates.
While Office 365 users who fails to update to macOS 10.12 or later before the September update will still receive mainstream support and will be able to continue using their current version of Office 365 for Mac, but no new features will be delivered to the applications.
The upcoming September update, will ultimately transition the Office 2016 for Mac client to Office 2019 for Mac to maintain access to new feature releases and updates.
However, it remains unclear if the same requirement will be enforced when Apple releases macOS 10.14 (Mojave), which is expected this fall, will Office 365 update be mandatory for only systems running that edition, and the immediate predecessor, High Sierra, for new updates.
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