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Microsoft Launches Office 2019 For Windows and Mac (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the new-updates dept.

Microsoft is releasing Office 2019 for Windows and Mac today. The update is designed for businesses and consumers that haven't opted into Microsoft's Office 365 service with monthly feature updates. The Verge: Office 2019 is essentially a subset of features that have been added to Office 365 over the past three years, and it includes updates to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher. Office 2019 will include a roaming pencil case and ribbon customizations across all Office apps. Microsoft is also bringing focus mode to Word, alongside a new translator, and accessibility improvements. Morph transitions, SVG and 3D model support, play in-click sequence, and 4k video export are all coming to PowerPoint. According to VentureBeat, which cites a Microsoft executive, the new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook won't receive future updates.

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  1. So what? Still the same as 20 years ago. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not like the last >20-30 years brought any meaningful changes, let alone changes that anyone actually uses.

    It's gonna be a UI design change (for the worse), to trick you into feeling like something changed, a few trinkets here and there, and of course the hefty load of "cloud AI $buzzword digital assistant $buzzword" spyware that is "all the rage" among true psychopaths nowadays.

  2. Still using Office 2010 by crgrace · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm still on Office 2010. I don't understand the point of these "upgrades" (Google just did the same thing to gmail). Basically all they do is make me re-learn an interface I'm already comfortable and in return they introduce zero useful functionality.

    I guess a few years ago it was a big innovation to use all caps in the menu headings?

    1. Re:Still using Office 2010 by harrkev · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Can you please tell me something significant that current Word can do that Word 97 couldn't do?

      But yeah, the reason is that Word 97 would open in about 1/4 second flat on any modern machine. That is unacceptable, and means that an upgrade is not needed. Upgrades are the heart and soul of both the hardware and software worlds.

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  3. Still hate the ribbon by TomR+teh+Pirate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd pay good money for the next version of Office if they'd let the user ditch the ribbon for the classic menu drop-downs.

  4. Re:I can understand being locked in on a PC office by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One word: Enterprise.

    Fortune 500 companies are not homogeneous. They run Windows AND Macs. Having documents with cross-platform support is a no brainer requirement regardless of how bad MS enforces Stockholm Syndrome.

  5. Re:And ... by jwhyche · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And ... what is the advantage of all that over LibreOffice again? For 99.9999% of people?

    Well you have the idiot factor. I installed libreoffice on my nieces laptop for college. She turned in a paper to her professor and got it rejected. He said 'the paper must be turned in written in M$ word." He didn't even look at her paper because she "didn't follow directions."

    I loaded the paper in office 2010, 2013, 2016, and office 365. It was just fine. Her mistake was telling him she used libreoffice and his is he is just a god damn moron.

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