Office 2016 Public Preview availible (Mac and PC)

[GoodBytes]

Today at Microsoft Ignite event (Unlike BUILD event which targets developers, this one targets IT.. if you guys are interested I can cover it),

Microsoft announced that it now releasing Office 2016 Public Preview.

Some of Office 2016 new features, is the new command search bar called "Tell Me", where you type what you want to do, and shows as result a clickable button or menu of the action you are looking for. For an overly simplistic example, say you are new to Word, and you want to make text bold, and you can't seam to find the darn Bold button for some reason, you type "make text bold', and the "Bold" command button will be listed. You click on it from the results, and voila, text will now be bold as you type.

Another feature is the ability to have multiple users working on the same document, and see what the others are typing live, like Google docs. This feature is also available on the online version of Office.

As you can see a new theme is availible. The one pictured above is called "Colorful" and is the default one. You also have: Light Gray, Medium Gray, Dark Gray, and White.

It also includes Data Loss Protection (DLP), which allows IT to set restrictions on content for not allowing it to be accidentally distributed. (This is very business level feature).

Outlook supports multi-factor authentication, and more.

You can view the full list and more details here, and is also the source of this post:

http://blogs.office.com/2015/05/04/office-2016-public-preview-now-available/

You can get Office 2016 Preview 32 and 64-bit here: https://products.office.com/en-us/office-2016-preview

If you wonder, if you have Office 365 subscription, when Office 2016 will be released, you will be upgraded. There is no details on how it will exactly go, but that is all part of the service. You don't need to buy or get some sort of different subscription.

 

 

Update (Thanks @d3sl91)

Mac Version of Office 2016 Preview is available as well:

It has the same features as the PC version now, and looks the same as well.

Source: http://blogs.office.com/2015/03/05/office-2016-mac-preview/

[flibberdipper]

FINALLY. I'VE HAD A VM SET UP FOR THIS.

[d3sl91]

@GoodBytes

 

Thanks! As someone who uses office professionally every day... seeing what the updates will look like is of great interest to me. 

 

Did you hear mention of a release day? I just purchased my year of 365 (or rather, I used a coupon, so I have a free year).

[Juggernautilus]

Oh man, this looks so good. I hope it is as easy to use as Office 2013.

[Derykey]

Something that i can use! Yay!

[RH00D]

Please do cover Ignite. In-depth would be good. I'm currently watching the live stream and there is some awesome news in there. Especially what they showcased with Cortana in build 10107 from the "fbl_shell1_dev_cortana" branch. The queries he could do on the audience data via Power BI integration was super cool and how Cortana seemingly made the charts/map plotting in real time based off his voice query. And the UI for Cortana was even further updated as well, looking a lot nicer.

 

[Kherm]

Finally! can't wait to download it as soon as i get home

[GoodBytes]

Please do cover Ignite. In-depth would be good. I'm currently watching the live stream and there is some awesome news in there. Especially what they showcased with Cortana in build 10107 from the "fbl_shell1_dev_cortana" branch. The queries he could do on the audience data via Power BI integration was super cool and how Cortana seemingly made the charts/map plotting in real time based off his voice query. And the UI for Cortana was even further updated as well, looking a lot nicer.

 

fbl_shell1.png

What I am planing on doing, is spend time just going everything in details and make separate news posts for everything. Doing the big BUILD event coverage limited me in explaining things in details (but that is fine, as this is not a dev forum), and people didn't like the mass number of images all in one post.

[RH00D]

What I am planing on doing, is spend time just going everything in details and make separate news posts for everything. Doing the big BUILD event coverage limited me in explaining things in details (but that is fine, as this is not a dev forum), and people didn't like the mass number of images all in one post.

 

Good idea.

[d3sl91]

@GoodBytes

 

http://blogs.office.com/2015/03/05/office-2016-mac-preview/

 

You may also want to throw this fact in here as well. Mac has their release preview going - and for the first update to happen since 2011.....man i'm excited. 

[Dredgy]

Am using Office 2016. Is nice, and a much needed refresh, but doesn't blow my mind.

[TooManyErrors]

Great! I can now temporarily use Office to open school related documents without having to upload them to Office Online.

[RH00D]

Great! I can now temporarily use Office to open school related documents without having to upload them to Office Online.

 

You can download latest full Office version without a key and use it in read-only mode for free as well.

[GoodBytes]

Great! I can now temporarily use Office to open school related documents without having to upload them to Office Online.

Great! Did you know that you can enjoy Office 365 for free as you are a student!

Contact your school to get it, if they don't manage it, Microsoft does so here: https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education

[TooManyErrors]

Great! Did you know that you can enjoy Office 365 for free as you are a student!

Contact your school to get it, if they don't manage it, Microsoft does so here: https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education

As far as I know, my school doesn't offer it (I'm in high school still). I'll still have to ask them sometime.

[LeGourmand]

At first glance the Mac version seems way faster/better at dealing with 20 000+ lines files, it was really slow with Office 2011. We'll see when I have real stuff to do with a similar file.

[Dabombinable]

MS office still looks like a revamped version of 2007, so I think I'll stick with it.

[Dabombinable]

Great! Did you know that you can enjoy Office 365 for free as you are a student!

Contact your school to get it, if they don't manage it, Microsoft does so here: https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education

My college apparently has it-but students can't get acess to the copies.

[Notional]

Outlook is set up and working. Now to try out Word.

[d3sl91]

Outlook is set up and working. Now to try out Word.

 

Just tried outlook on my phone........much better that gmail to be honest. At least for exchange use. 

[Notional]

Just tried outlook on my phone........much better that gmail to be honest. At least for exchange use. 

 

It says it supports Danish as a language, but I can only get proofing. I can't seem to change the display language

[Doobeedoo]

I always wondered how come they didn't include Office with Windows as a better package and also more justified price.

[GoodBytes]

I always wondered how come they didn't include Office with Windows as a better package and also more justified price.

The price of Windows is fully justified. In fact, it is practically free even if you buy the Pro version, retail box.

An Operating system is a super complex peace of software with super high yearly cost for support. Heck even Google has trouble with proper support for older devices (Android). It is really complicated peace of software where you cant' afford bugs. Image if your there is a bug, and the HDD/SSD is stuck at writing 1's or 0's everywhere, delete all your data. You can't afford this.

Look at AutoDesk software, say you want 3D Studio Max. A FAR FAR FAR more simple peace of software, and they are charging 3,675.00$.

And that is every year, if you want the latest version. While Windows is every 3 years (couple of month apart, and on average). Plus, if they are bugs in 3D Studio Max.. well you need to wait for next version, unless it is critical. Windows... You bought Windows 7? Guess what, you still get Windows updates until 2020. And I can assure you Microsoft employees are better paid and have better benefits than the ones from Autocad.

You also don't see Autodesk or even Adobe having a security team like Microsoft working in trying to not only discover and fix Windows/Office/IE/Edge security bugs, but also continuously fight all sorts of cyber level crimes, including spam.

Autodesk is just an example, you can compare it with any software company that sales anything at around the same price or more of Windows. The value you get is not even close to Windows.

Already, Office 365 is free for students. Contact your school for it, or visit Microsoft Office page for students. All you need is an e-mail from your school for validation.

In addition, you can use Office online, and Office touch version which are free (but limited in feature, but covers all the features you need to do basic documents/paper for school).

[Doobeedoo]

The price of Windows is fully justified. In fact, it is practically free even if you buy the Pro version, retail box.

An Operating system is a super complex peace of software with super high yearly cost for support. Heck even Google has trouble with proper support for older devices (Android). It is really complicated peace of software where you cant' afford bugs. Image if your there is a bug, and the HDD/SSD is stuck at writing 1's or 0's everywhere, delete all your data. You can't afford this.

Look at AutoDesk software, say you want 3D Studio Max. A FAR FAR FAR more simple peace of software, and they are charging 3,675.00$.

And that is every year, if you want the latest version. While Windows is every 3 years (couple of month apart, and on average). Plus, if they are bugs in 3D Studio Max.. well you need to wait for next version, unless it is critical. Windows... You bought Windows 7? Guess what, you still get Windows updates until 2020. And I can assure you Microsoft employees are better paid and have better benefits than the ones from Autocad.

You also don't see Autodesk or even Adobe having a security team like Microsoft working in trying to not only discover and fix Windows/Office/IE/Edge security bugs, but also continuously fight all sorts of cyber level crimes, including spam.

Autodesk is just an example, you can compare it with any software company that sales anything at around the same price or more of Windows. The value you get is not even close to Windows.

Already, Office 365 is free for students. Contact your school for it, or visit Microsoft Office page for students. All you need is an e-mail from your school for validation.

In addition, you can use Office online, and Office touch version which are free (but limited in feature, but covers all the features you need to do basic documents/paper for school).

Yeah I get that about OS being complicated and all, was just trying to say that would be more appealing if they included their Office in it without separate product., but oh well.

 

And software from AutoDesk and Adobe are professional grade for specific work and I can understand that pricing in a way.

 

Office 365 is a no for me and besides I'm not a student anymore as of lately.

 

Office online is not offline

[kjvnasa]

Omg about time it has been ages since office for widows has been released.