I purchased from Academic Superstore Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 – Lifetime License (WAH Download). I activated the trial and have two days left. I purchased a new HP ENVY Phoenix Desktop – 850-150qe with Windows 10 64 bit which came with Office 365 installed and a 30 day trial. Uring a search in the web I came across this post from 2016 at HP in the forum, which seems to describe a similar problem. Office 365 Uninstall: Second Problem Report

At the end of the day he was forced to setup the OEM as a clean install to get rid of the stuff – can't be true. As a result, he had all Office shortcuts (Word, Excel etc.) twice in the start menu. The user then installed an Office 2016 Standard above it (was planned for the purpose). After the restart, however, all applications were still available in the start menu… So I used the Office 2016 Uninstall-Fix-It, which found the installation and asked for a restart after the alleged uninstallation. So there was practically nothing to uninstall – logically. But the installation was never displayed in the Control Panel. The Office applications were listed from the first start of the notebook in the Start menu. When trying to uninstall this trial, he failed. The user affected wrote that he got his hands on a new Dell notebook with pre-installed Office 365 trial. I already came across a corresponding message at two years ago.

The German edition of this blog post, has been published in 2018 here. Maybe blog readers can contribute some insights. I don't have access to systems with Office 365 pre-installed, so I can't test anything.

First of all: I will simply put the information here 'as-is'.

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