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Microsoft Office 2016 Public Preview Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

jones_supa writes: Back in March, Microsoft made Office 2016, the next release of the company's leading office suite, available to IT professionals to test and submit feedback on. At Microsoft's Ignite conference, CEO Satya Nadella announced that the public preview of Office 2016 has now been released as well. Office 2016 comes with a range of new features that build upon Office 2013. There is far more integration with cloud, allowing a user to access documents anywhere, and Outlook now syncs with OneDrive when sending large files. So called Smart Applications extend the functionality of Office, including Tell Me, a new search tool, and Clutter, which unclutters your inbox based on machine learning. Anyone can start testing the free Office 2016 Preview right now. Just as they have done with Windows 10, Microsoft is receiving open feedback on the product.

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  1. Windows 7 eol by Billly+Gates · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Since Windows 7 is not actively developed anymore and is in extended security only support does this mean office 2016 will require an OS designed for tablets?

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  2. I'd just be happy with... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd just be happy with an announcement that the online Office 365 apps would finally get the features they need to quit making them toys (and forcing everyone to download docs to local Office apps anyway).

    Second to that would be an option in Office 365 to default to "yes, when I opened the document, put me in f***ing editing mode by default." Hell, call it the "Google Docs" mode if you want.

  3. Re:Moar Cloud by thunderbird32 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    MUCH easier to make a pivot table than request a Cognos report be built. In a company with a 3 man IT department (such as ours), you've got to prioritize. If the users can make their own pivot tables, it saves everybody a lot of headache.

  4. Re:Moar Cloud by LinuxIsGarbage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I like Office 2010. I actually like Ribbon, once getting over the learning curve. I've used some third party companies that implement Ribbon (eg: AutoCAD) that I found terrible.

    In addition, I love how Excel 2007+ handles filters. Much easier to import data, and easily filter columns.

    For me I haven't upgraded past Office 2010 for two reasons:
    1) We use 2010 at work, so home-work consistency is a consideration
    2) Microsoft is pushing subscription based 365 so hard, they limit some features in 2013, but not 365.