Your Microsoft Store Office apps are losing security updates this year
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Microsoft sunsetting security updates for Store-based Office in 2026 is another nudge toward 365 subscriptions and cloud-tethered productivity. If your org still relies on these installs, treat this as a forced migration window and budget both license shifts and retraining before security teams start blocking them outright.
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