{"id":841622,"date":"2026-10-29T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroshopkey.com\/?page_id=841622"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:33:54","slug":"project-2021-key","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euroshopkey.com\/sl\/project-2021-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Project 2021 Key: Standard or Professional"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project 2021 key: Standard or Professional?<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Project 2021 key<\/strong> activates the desktop version of Microsoft Project 2021 on a Windows PC as a perpetual license: you pay once and use the software with no time limit. Project 2021 comes in two editions with the same scheduling engine: the Gantt chart, critical path, calendars, milestones and built-in reports work identically. The difference lies in team work and the connection to an enterprise platform.<\/p>\n<h3>What you get with a Project 2021 key<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A genuine Microsoft product key for Project 2021, sent by email within minutes<\/li>\n<li>Step-by-step installation and activation instructions<\/li>\n<li>A perpetual license for one PC, with 2-PC and 5-PC options on the product page<\/li>\n<li>A VAT invoice and the lifetime replacement of a faulty key<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Edition<\/th>\n<th>Key features<\/th>\n<th>For whom?<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/product\/microsoft-project-2021-standard\/\">Project 2021 Standard<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Planning, Gantt chart, critical path, baselines, resources and costs managed locally, reports<\/td>\n<td>Independent project managers, contractors, small businesses, single PC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/product\/project-2021-professional\/\">Project 2021 Professional<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Everything in Standard, plus Team Planner, inactive tasks, SharePoint task list sync and the connection to Project Server<\/td>\n<td>Project teams, PMOs, design offices<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In practice, a planner who works alone on construction, development or production schedules never needs the server connection: Standard is enough. Professional pays off as soon as several people share the same resources. Since Professional contains everything in Standard, compare the two prices in the offers above: <strong>Project 2021 Professional<\/strong> costs {prix:project-2021-professional}, and when Professional costs the same as Standard or less, take Professional. Our <a href=\"\/project-standard-vs-professional\/\">Project Standard vs Professional guide<\/a> goes into the details.<\/p>\n<h2>What Project 2021 brings compared with 2019 and 2016<\/h2>\n<p>Project 2021 includes the improvements that arrived with Project 2019, which Project 2016 lacks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Task linking from a drop-down menu<\/strong>: pick predecessors and successors from a list instead of typing row numbers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Task Summary Name field<\/strong>: see at a glance which phase a task belongs to in a schedule of several hundred lines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Labels and progress on timeline bars<\/strong>: summary exports become readable for management without editing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Compared with Project 2019, the 2021 version mainly brings the Office 2021 interface and a more recent code base. Nothing spectacular, but day-to-day comfort, and the .mpp format stays the same, so files move freely between 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Microsoft support: what changed in October 2026<\/h2>\n<p>Under Microsoft&#8217;s lifecycle policy, Project 2021 received security updates until <strong>13 October 2026<\/strong>. Since that date, the license remains valid and the software keeps working without any limitation, but no more fixes are published. For a typical planning workstation, the 2021 version remains a sound choice. If your internal policy requires security updates, choose Project 2024, supported until October 2029 and presented on our <a href=\"\/project-2024-key\/\">Project 2024 key<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, a few habits keep a workstation safe once a program no longer receives fixes: keep Windows itself up to date, open .mpp files only from people you trust, and keep a backup copy of your schedules. These precautions take a few minutes to put in place and apply to any software that has reached the end of its support.<\/p>\n<h2>System requirements and installation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>System<\/strong>: Windows 10 or Windows 11. There is no macOS edition of Project.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardware<\/strong>: a dual-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, about 4 GB of free disk space and a 1280 x 768 display.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coexistence<\/strong>: Project 2021 installs next to your office suite; keep the same 32-bit or 64-bit architecture everywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Choose your edition and pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Bancontact.<\/li>\n<li>Receive your key by email within minutes, with the instructions.<\/li>\n<li>Install Project 2021 and enter the key: activation is completed with Microsoft.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Before installing, remove any trial version of Project already on the PC, and check whether your Office is 32-bit or 64-bit (in Word or Excel: File, Account, About) so that Project uses the same architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Need Windows, Visio and Project at once? The <a href=\"\/visio-project-bundle\/\">Windows 11 Pro, Visio and Project bundle<\/a> groups the three licenses, and <a href=\"\/buy-microsoft-project\/\">all our Microsoft Project licenses<\/a> are compared on a single page.<\/p>\n<h2>Where these Project 2021 licenses come from<\/h2>\n<p>They are <strong>pre-owned perpetual licenses<\/strong>. In its UsedSoft ruling (case C-128\/11), the Court of Justice of the European Union held that the distribution right in a piece of software is exhausted by the first sale of a perpetual license in the EU: a license bought and then uninstalled can be resold legally. Activation then happens directly with Microsoft, as with any other genuine key.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Key delivered by email within minutes, with a VAT invoice<\/li>\n<li>Lifetime replacement of a faulty key<\/li>\n<li>Email support 7 days a week, with a reply within 2 hours on average<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Going further:<\/strong> read our <a href=\"\/microsoft-project-2021-complete-project-management-guide\/\">complete guide to Microsoft Project 2021<\/a> for a tour of its planning features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 2021 key: Standard or Professional? A Project 2021 key activates the desktop version of Microsoft Project 2021 on a Windows PC as a perpetual license: you pay once and use the software with no time limit. 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