[_fat_santa]

This is offered through Office LTSC which is just for volume licensing clients. So for lowly consumers, seems the only way to get your hands on it would be via grey market or piracy unfortunately.

IMO these days I recommend people just download OnlyOffice if they want something offline. In my experience it's never had an issue opening an office doc and the UI is much better than LibreOffice.

[Kon-Peki]

The previous release was available to lowly consumers, MS just made it hard to find on their website. This one will probably also be like that.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-365/p/office-profe...

[dartharva]

It has been established Microsoft doesn't care at all about lowly retail consumers, enough to not care about piracy done by them either.