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Microsoft Announces Office 2016 and Office For Windows 10 Coming Later This Year

An anonymous reader writes At its Windows 10 event yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the touch-optimized version of Office. Today, the company offered more details about that version, and then snuck in another announcement: the next desktop version is under development, it is called Office 2016, and it will be generally available "in the second half of 2015." Office for Windows 10 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook), meanwhile, is also slated to arrive later this year, though Microsoft has shared more about it and plans to offer a preview in the coming weeks. These new Office apps will be pre-installed (they will be free) on smartphones and small tablets running Windows 10. They will also be available to download from the Windows Store for other devices.

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  1. Re:huh?? by stooo · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> WTF happened to Office 365

    It will be renamed "Office 362" when the statistics will show 3 days downtime per year :))))

    Or perhaps "Office 363" on leap years :)

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  2. Re: No! by jbolden · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lots of their customers use SharePoint which is a rather large innovation as compared with what your talking about in terms of Office Suites in areas like collaboration. SharePoint is very much like what CVS or GIT provide programmers but even richer.

    Things haven't stayed the same, but where they changed the most is in areas that their bottom rung of users don't notice. By linking more tightly with SharePoint they can easily show how far ahead Office is of the other office suites.

  3. Re:They just move the menu items around by GoddersUK · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, you keep using Windows 95. I mean I'm sure it's just as good to use as Windows 8.1, it's got complete feature parity and you're productivity will skyrocket from the modern interface and featureset.

  4. Re:No! by boskone · · Score: 3, Funny

    wow. umm, I disagree.

    I think Windows 10 is the most important release since I've been in IT (20 years).

    It fundamentally changes what windows is and how users will access technology.