“The way people work has changed dramatically, and that’s why Microsoft is focused on reinventing productivity and business processes for the mobile-first, cloud-first world”, said Microsoft chief executive, Satya Nadella. That’s what Outlook is for!
Outlook now with a new Office 365 Groups feature allows the users to see shared inboxes, calendars and notebooks within the app and the app has received a big performance bump for “live search” which is much faster.
Office 2016 is definitely a worthy upgrade, and if you have an Office 365 subscription already, you can upgrade to the new iteration without any additional charges.
For the business user, there are a ton of new Office features that help you better communicate, collaborate and create. “Smartphone market in India is booming and we want to showcase the ease with which users can work on documents across devices using the connected set of apps and services that make collaboration easier”, he said.
Built-in data loss prevention across Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook significantly reduces the risk of leaking sensitive data, giving IT administrators tools to manage content authoring and document sharing policies. Control is also afforded via Group Policy, and Microsoft has new Office 2016 Administrative Template files available here for the objective.
Customers may opt to pay for the subscription service or one-time retail purchases, ideal for students and entrepreneurs. The added videoconferencing feature into the office suite is a recognition of the importance of virtual communication platforms which are leveraged by enterprises globally today. Automatic updates will begin rolling out to consumer and small-business subscribers next month, and to commercial customers early next year.
It is Microsoft’s most successful product, but has been stuck in a 90s-era time warp. With online alternatives like Google Docs snapping at the heels of the Office suite, it’s clear that Microsoft is looking to the future with the changes that have been made.
Torres says the Office 365 internal-use rights benefit allows partners to use and learn Microsoft’s latest cloud technology internally, so they are able to sell the solutions more effectively.
However, even though volume licensees have to wait for Office Professional Plus 2016 to arrive next month, it’s still available as of Tuesday. However, the new feature has a step-by-step integration that helps users in knowing the contextual meaning of the word they are using. IT pros have to download the standalone InfoPath 2013 product and install it after the Office 365 ProPlus 2016 update gets carried out.