Expert and consultant Vlad Catrinescu offers some thoughts for organizations contemplating impending SharePoint Server moves.

SharePoint Designer 2013 is deprecated, too, but it "will work with SharePoint Server 2019 public preview for the remainder of the client support lifecycle (2026)," according to the announcement.

With the number of on-premise SharePoint installs going no where but up, one has to wonder why Microsoft has also gone to the trouble of building an online (SaaS) version.