What is included in Windows 10 Professional & Office 2019 Professional Plus?

Windows 10 Pro – BitLocker drive encryption and Remote Desktop host access.
Hyper-V and Sandbox – Run virtual machines and disposable test sessions.
Office applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote.
Access and Publisher – Desktop databases and print layouts, Windows only.
Supported pairing – Microsoft supports Office 2019 on Windows 10.
Important – Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 services are not included.

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Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus in detail
Full description of the Office suite, its applications and what the 2019 generation offers

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Why buy Windows 10 Professional and Office 2019 Professional Plus together?

Microsoft supports Office 2019 on two operating systems only, Windows 11 and Windows 10, so putting the suite on Windows 10 Professional puts it on a platform the manufacturer names rather than one it tolerates. Office 2019 is also installed on the system drive and its installation location cannot be changed, and that system drive is exactly what BitLocker encrypts on the Professional edition.

Supported platform – Microsoft lists Windows 10 for Office 2019.
Encrypted system drive – BitLocker covers where Office 2019 installs.
Remote workstation access – Windows 10 Pro can host Remote Desktop sessions.
Local data only – Files stay on one encrypted machine.
Isolated testing – Hyper-V and Sandbox run unknown files.
Combined price – Lower than the two keys bought separately.

Do Windows 10 Professional and Office 2019 Professional Plus work together?

Yes. Microsoft states that Office 2019 is supported only on Windows 11 and Windows 10, which rules out Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and every earlier release, and this is the practical reason the two products are sold as one package for a machine that is being set up or rebuilt. Microsoft names no edition restriction within Windows 10, so the Professional edition in this bundle is chosen for what it adds around the suite, not because Office needs it. Access and Publisher, both part of Professional Plus, are not available for devices running macOS, so this combination is a Windows-only setup.

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How does Windows 10 Pro protect the files Office 2019 creates?

Through BitLocker Drive Encryption, which Microsoft provides on Windows Pro, Enterprise and Education editions but not on Windows Home. This matters with Office 2019 because the suite is installed on the system drive and its location cannot be changed, so the Word documents, Excel workbooks, Outlook data files and Access databases produced on that machine sit on the volume BitLocker covers. Windows 10 Home is not left entirely without protection: it offers Device Encryption on hardware that meets Microsoft's conditions, but that is a single on or off switch tied to a Microsoft account, without BitLocker To Go for removable drives and without the Group Policy settings used to manage encryption. On a notebook that leaves the office, that difference decides whether a stolen machine is a readable archive of your correspondence.

In which order should the two products be installed?

Install Windows 10 Professional first, then Office 2019 Professional Plus into the finished system. Doing it the other way round means installing the suite twice, because Office 2019 goes onto the system drive and cannot be pointed at another volume, so a clean Windows setup erases it along with everything else on that drive. Microsoft also recommends removing existing Office versions before deploying Office 2019, which is easier on a system that has just been set up than on one carrying years of installations. It is worth switching BitLocker on before you copy document archives and Outlook data across, so the files are written to a volume that is already encrypted.

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Who is this bundle best suited for?

It fits a PC that has to hold its own data instead of working from a cloud service. The concrete case it covers better than either product alone is a single machine that runs an Access database and the classic Outlook client: the .accdb file cannot be opened in a browser, and Office 2019 has no Microsoft 365 service behind it, so reaching that data from elsewhere means a Remote Desktop session into the machine, which only the Professional edition can accept. Hyper-V adds a way to test an application against a different Windows version before it touches the production system, provided that guest installation carries its own licence. If nobody in the company opens a database file and the PC never needs to be reached remotely, that argument does not apply and a smaller Office edition on Windows 10 Home covers the same daily work.

Do Windows 10 and Office 2019 still receive updates from Microsoft?

Both products reached end of support on 14 October 2025, on the same day. For Windows 10 there is a continuation: devices running version 22H2 in the Home, Professional, Pro Education or Workstations edition can be enrolled in the consumer Extended Security Updates programme, which delivers critical and important security updates until the programme ends on 12 October 2027, without feature improvements and without technical support. Microsoft does not offer an equivalent programme for Office 2019, so the suite receives no further security updates. One detail matters for the Professional edition specifically: consumer ESU enrolment is not offered for devices joined to an Active Directory domain or enrolled in a mobile device management solution.

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When is it better to buy the two products separately?

Whenever the machine already has one half. A PC running Windows 10 Professional or Windows 11 Professional gains nothing from a second operating system key, and Office 2019 is supported on Windows 11 as well, so on those systems only the suite is needed. In reverse, a machine with a current Office installation needs the operating system alone. And if the PC will never encrypt a drive, accept a remote session or run a virtual machine, Windows 10 Home covers the system side, because Microsoft does not restrict Office 2019 to a particular Windows 10 edition; if nobody uses a database, Office 2019 Standard covers the applications without Access.

What is not included in this bundle?

Microsoft Teams, and everything that belongs to a Microsoft 365 subscription. Office 2019 is a fixed desktop suite that receives no new features, so the cloud-backed services sold with Microsoft 365 are not part of it. Skype for Business is installed with Professional Plus, but the Skype for Business Online service was retired by Microsoft on 31 July 2021, which leaves the client useful only against an on-premises Skype for Business Server. There is also no 2019 version of SharePoint Designer or InfoPath; 2013 was the last release of both. On the Windows side, the operating system contains simple built-in tools such as Notepad, but none of the Office applications.

Frequently asked questions about Windows 10 Professional & Office 2019 Professional Plus

Does Windows 10 Professional already contain an Office version?

No. Windows 10 ships with simple built-in tools such as Notepad, but it contains no Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access or Publisher, which is why the office suite is the second half of this bundle. The classic Outlook desktop client is likewise part of Office 2019 Professional Plus and not of the operating system.

Does Office 2019 Professional Plus also run on Windows 10 Home?

Yes. Microsoft names Windows 10 as a supported platform for Office 2019 without restricting it to a particular edition. What the Professional edition adds is BitLocker, Hyper-V, Windows Sandbox and Remote Desktop hosting, none of which the Office applications need in order to run.

Is Microsoft Access part of Office 2019 Professional Plus?

Yes. Microsoft lists Access alongside Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word and Skype for Business for Office Professional Plus 2019. Access is available on Windows only and is not part of the macOS version of Office.

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