What is included in Win 10 Pro & Microsoft Office 2016 Pro Plus?

Office applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher.
Skype for Business – Included in the Professional Plus edition.
Windows 10 Pro – BitLocker, Hyper-V, Windows Sandbox, Remote Desktop host.
Group Policy – Local policy editor and domain join.
Documented pairing – Microsoft lists Windows 10 for Office 2016.
Important – Teams, Visio and Project are not included.

Microsoft Windows 10 Professional in detail
Full description of the operating system and the features reserved for the Professional edition

Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus in detail
Full description of the suite, its applications and how this edition differs from the smaller ones

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Why buy Windows 10 Professional and Office 2016 Professional Plus together?

Microsoft's Office and Windows configuration support matrix lists Windows 10 as a supported platform for Office 2016, and both halves reached their support end on the same day, 14 October 2025, which is why they are still bought as a pair for a machine that has to stay on this generation. Because the supported connection between Office 2016 and Microsoft 365 services ended in October 2023, everything the suite produces lives on the local disk, and the Windows 10 Pro features that count here are the ones that encrypt, isolate and reach those local files.

Documented pairing – Microsoft lists Windows 10 for Office 2016.
Encrypted local files – BitLocker protects documents Office 2016 stores offline.
Remote workstation access – Windows 10 Pro hosts Remote Desktop sessions.
Isolated testing – Windows Sandbox opens unknown files away from Office.
Matching generation – Both halves share one Microsoft support timeline.
Combined price – Lower than the two keys bought separately.

Do Office 2016 Professional Plus and Windows 10 Pro work together?

Yes. In Microsoft's Office and Windows configuration support matrix, Office 2016 is listed against Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016 and the Windows 10 LTSB branches, so Windows 10 is a documented platform for this suite rather than an assumed one. Microsoft made a deliberate exception to keep Office 2016 running on Windows 11 as well, but the pairing sold here is the one the matrix was originally built around. On the machine itself this means no compatibility mode, no unsupported configuration and no edition restriction: Office 2016 runs on Windows 10 Home and Pro alike, and the Professional edition is chosen for what it adds around the suite.

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What does the October 2025 end of support mean for this bundle?

It means the two halves are no longer in the same position, and the difference matters before you buy. Windows 10 reached end of support on 14 October 2025, but eligible devices running version 22H2 can be enrolled in Microsoft's consumer Extended Security Updates programme, which Microsoft's own page now runs until 12 October 2027. Office 2016 reached end of support on the same date and has no equivalent programme: the applications keep working, but no further security fixes, bug fixes or technical support are issued for them. Anyone buying this combination should treat it as a deliberate decision for a specific machine, not as the default choice for a PC that could just as easily run a current generation.

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How does Windows 10 Pro protect the files Office 2016 creates?

Through BitLocker drive encryption, which Microsoft lists for the Pro, Enterprise and Education editions and not for Home. This carries more weight with Office 2016 than with a subscription installation, because the supported link between Office 2016 and Microsoft 365 services ended in October 2023, so Word documents, Excel workbooks and Outlook data files stay on the local disk by default. On a notebook that leaves the building, an encrypted system drive is what stops a stolen machine from becoming a readable copy of your correspondence. Windows 10 Home offers Device Encryption instead, an automatic on-or-off feature tied to Microsoft's hardware conditions, without per-drive encryption or the BitLocker management tools.

In which order should the two products be installed?

Set up Windows 10 Professional first, then install Office 2016 Professional Plus into the finished system. Doing it the other way round means installing the suite twice, because a clean Windows setup erases the system volume along with the program files and registry entries Office writes. Bring Windows to version 22H2 and install all available updates before you go any further, since 22H2 is the version Microsoft requires for Extended Security Updates enrolment. It is also worth switching BitLocker on before you copy over document archives and Outlook data files, so they are written to a volume that is already encrypted instead of triggering a full-drive encryption pass afterwards.

Who is this bundle best suited for?

It fits a PC that is tied to this software generation and is being set up or rebuilt from scratch. The clearest case is a dependency the newer suites do not carry: an Access 2016 database, a VBA macro or a COM add-in that was written against these applications and has to keep running on hardware that is staying on Windows 10. The Professional edition then closes the gaps that follow from working locally, since Access files cannot be opened in a browser and there is no supported cloud path for this Office version, so remote access to the machine and encryption of its drive are the practical substitutes. If there is no such dependency and the PC could run a current Windows and Office generation, that argument does not apply and a newer suite is the more sensible purchase.

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When is it better to buy the two products separately?

Whenever you already own one half, or do not need what the Professional edition adds. A PC already running Windows 10 Professional gains nothing from a second operating system, so only the Office key is needed, and the same applies in reverse to a machine that already has a working Office installation. If the PC will never encrypt a drive, host a Remote Desktop session or run a virtual machine, Windows 10 Home covers the operating system side and Office 2016 Professional Plus can be bought on its own, since the suite runs on Windows 10 regardless of edition. And if the only reason for the older Office generation is price rather than a genuine dependency, a supported Office version on the same Windows 10 machine is the better buy, because that half still receives security updates.

What is not included in this bundle?

Visio, Project and Teams. Visio and Project are separate products in the 2016 generation and were never part of the Professional Plus suite, and Teams did not exist when Office 2016 was released, so the communication client in this edition is Skype for Business. The supported connection from Office 2016 to Microsoft 365 services such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive ended in October 2023, so the cloud-backed half of a subscription is not part of this purchase either. Access and Publisher are Windows-only applications and are not available in any macOS version of Office, and neither component includes ongoing security updates for the Office half.

Frequently asked questions about Win 10 Pro & Microsoft Office 2016 Pro Plus

Does Windows 10 Pro already contain an Office version?

No. Windows 10 Professional contains no Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access or Publisher, which is why the office suite is the second half of this bundle. Windows 10 does carry a mail client: the built-in Mail and Calendar apps stopped sending and receiving on 31 December 2024, and Microsoft delivered the new Outlook app to Windows 10 through the early 2025 updates. That app handles mail and calendar only and is not the classic Outlook desktop application that comes with Office 2016 Professional Plus.

Does Office 2016 Professional Plus also run on Windows 10 Home?

Yes. Microsoft's configuration matrix lists Windows 10 for Office 2016 without restricting it to a particular edition, so the applications themselves need nothing that only the Professional edition provides. What the Professional edition adds is BitLocker, Hyper-V, Windows Sandbox, Remote Desktop hosting and the Group Policy tools, none of which are required to install or run the suite.

Can the two products be used independently of each other?

Yes, each half works on its own. Windows 10 Professional runs with any Office generation Microsoft lists as supported on Windows 10, and Office 2016 Professional Plus also runs on other operating systems named in the configuration matrix, including Windows 11 and Windows Server 2016. Buying them as a pair is a decision about one specific machine, not a technical requirement of either product.

Is Microsoft Access part of Office 2016 Professional Plus?

Yes, alongside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher and Skype for Business. Access works with local database files and needs no separate database server, which is the usual reason this edition is chosen over Office 2016 Home and Business. It is a Windows-only application and is not available in the macOS version of Office.

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