• Microsoft Office 95
• Microsoft Office 97
• Microsoft Office 2000
• Microsoft Office XP (2002)
• Microsoft Office 2003
• Microsoft Office 2007
• Microsoft Office 2010
• Microsoft Office 2013
• Microsoft Office 2016
• Microsoft Office 2019

I look at the above progression, and am pretty sure there will not be Microsoft Office 2020.

In fact, I’m not even certain there will be any successor to Microsoft Office 2019. Microsoft wants their customers to switch to the subscription version Microsoft Office 2016/Office 365.

The subscription version, even with an “older” seeming name is actually the latest and greatest version. You get updates every month (home users) or every 6 months (business users), and the pace of progress far exceeds what we saw from Office 95 through 2003, or from Office 2007 through 2016.

As an Excel power user, Office 2016/Office 365 gave me live stock prices (time delayed), major speed improvement in lookup functions, and dynamic arrays. It also brought new functions like TEXTJOIN, SORTBY, FILTER and XLOOKUP. And the scientific/engineering world finally got icons for superscript and subscript that you could plunk on the QAT and reference with keyboard shortcuts. Perpetual license users weren’t invited to this party, and can only look over my workbooks enviously.