Microsoft recently announced the public preview of its highly anticipated Office 2016 suite. In a move to stir interest and gather users’ feedback, the tech giant has opened its doors providing a glimpse into what the final version has in store.
Citing from the insights gathered from the Office blog, here are some of the key features you can expect from Office 2016:
Document Accessibility at Your Fingertips— Office 2016 ensures greater ease and flexibility with its cloud integration. This allows users to create, open, edit, and save files in the cloud directly from your desktop. This not only enhances document accessibility across various devices but also simplifies the process of sharing and collaborating on tasks with others. New modern attachments in Outlook streamline sharing files from OneDrive and even auto-configures permission for the recipients, without requiring you to leave Outlook.
Improved Collaboration and Real-Time Co-Authoring— This feature, previously available only in Office Online apps, now extends to the Windows Desktop applications, beginning with Word. This functionality enables you to see where other team members are making edits in real-time, thereby fostering a more efficient and transparent collaborative working environment.
Intuitive and Intelligent Applications— Applications within Office 2016 are designed to adapt and learn based on your work style. Featuring ‘Tell Me’, a new search tool available in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel that serves up the commands you need just by typing what you want to do. Additionally, ‘Clutter’, a new feature in Outlook, uses machine learning to analyze your email behavior and declutters your inbox by moving lower priority messages into a new Clutter folder. Lastly, ‘Insights’, powered by Bing, provides useful information from the web contextually within the reading experience.
New to Office 2016 are standout applications like ‘Tell Me’ and ‘Insights’. While ‘Tell Me’ eases task execution by enabling you to type your command directly, ‘Insights’ extracts relevant information from the web (powered by Bing) to enhance your Word document.
To become part of this exciting new development in Microsoft’s software offering, download the Office 2016 Preview from the links below:
This article provides an example of a company using early feedback to improve its final product offering – a practice both innovative and customer-centric. By providing a public preview, Microsoft enables potential issues to be identified and addressed earlier, leading to a better, more polished final product. Microsoft’s Office 2016 is clearly shaping up to be a game changer in office productivity suites. With new features focused on easy document access, enhanced collaboration, and intuitive applications, Office 2016 is well worth exploring.
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