Next Office - Office 16 - Leaked

[GoodBytes]

The coming up version of Office has been leaked, screenshots that is, The Verge reports.

This leak doesn't show much, beside a slightly polished GUI, new dark theme, and a "Tell me what you want to do?" search box on the ribbon bar, which is designed to help find features in Office. The idea of this functionality, is believed to give the ability to help users that is seeking on doing something that they don't know how, or been a long time since they did and need help finding on how to do it. But it is only guess work. It could be just a help search box, for all we know.

Here are the leaked pictures:

Also, Outlook is found to have improved IMAP support, where now you can ask to only get e-mail in the past 1, 3, 7 or 14 days.

And Office throughout support camera metadata, resulting in the ability for Office to automatically rotate pictures taken by a camera when inserted in a document. No more manual rotation.

It is obviously expected to have more features, but this is what has been found on the leaked.

 

Microsoft’s Office Ribbon is still present, and there are no major user interface changes just yet. Microsoft has, however, added a new black. We’re told that the black theme was the number one feature request for Office 2013 — likely because it existed in Office 2010 — and Microsoft is seeking feedback on its implementation to tweak any areas that are too bright. It’s an unusual look for Office, but if you’re used to regularly working in documents then it appears to be easier on the eyes than the white theme. The black theme isn’t default, it’s just an option for Office users alongside the light gray, dark gray, and white themes.

Other new features include automatic image rotation, allowing Microsoft to use camera metadata to correctly position images in Office documents. Once pictures are inserted, Office will automatically rotate a picture to match the camera’s orientation, with options to manually rotate afterwards. Microsoft is also improving its Outlook email client with sync options to just download 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, or 14 days of email. In the existing version of Outlook you can only download a minimum of one month of email, so the new option will improve any space issues on Windows laptops and tablets with limited storage.

It is excepted that everyone that has Office 365 subscription will get automatically upgraded when it comes out. We know nothing about Office release date, not even when it is expected to be released.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/18/6375419/microsoft-office-16-features-screenshots

[TheSLSAMG]

Oooh, it looks good.

[malaki]

looks nice, not so sure about excel though

[Sauron]

LibreOffice makes this completely irrelevant for what concerns me ^^

[bcredeur97]

looks fine i guess. Office still isnt worth its pricetag though. I like the search bar feature to find more features. That feature should mean we can change MS Office classes in US schools to real computer classes right?

[Bogica]

Looks good, but honestly office 2007 is still my personal favorite!

[DoubleY]

The new Office reminds me of Visual Studio while using the dark theme. Not surprised their themes are cross-program.

 

Also, I've never been so happy to own MSDN right now Windows 9 Consumer Preview (Sep. 30) and now Office 2016 #swoon

[Jerakl]

Looks the same except with a darker UI

[RH00D]

This will be free for Office 365 subscribers.

 

Quick note, it still supports dark gray, light gray, and white color schemes in addition to the very dark one in the screenshots.

[Tech_Dreamer]

How the hell does these things get " Leaked "so easily? publicity stunt from the Original vendors maybe? almost everything new & upcoming is being leaked nowadays... :mellow:

[linusforsell]

That grey is hideous!

 

Other than that it looks pretty alright....

[fojacko]

Still think office being subscription based is fucking stupid. But hey, I have Office 2007 so, idc.

 

EDIT - Jesus fucking christ. I knew 365 was sub based, but i didn't know it was £8 month (and that's just for the home edition), Netflix is cheaper than Office 365. I though it'd be £5/month max. How they get away with it, i'll never know.

[kuddlesworth9419]

Libre is king.

[Paralectic]

Looks like something Apple would make, oh wait if it's not Apple and it's nice ya'll won't hate.

 

like it

[Thalandros]

There's these things called Google Docs and LibreOffice now.

[Trik'Stari]

Unneccessary.

Please fix Office for Mac. It's been shit since 2011.

Maybe get a windows PC? cheaper and better performing

 

*prepares mentally for avalanche of hatred*

[Ashaira]

Mad.

Macs are fine for productivity, Windows absolutely blows, the only reason I have it is because games support it.

 

Since i am currently working on an imac i can say productivity is ass backwards and bad. 2 giant ass screens and i still get more done on my windows machine with a single hd screen.

[RH00D]

How the hell does these things get " Leaked "so easily? publicity stunt from the Original vendors maybe? almost everything new & upcoming is being leaked nowadays... :mellow:

Microsoft stuff tends to get leaked because they will send copies to OEMs like Dell, HP, and other business partners (so they can test the new software for compatibility and whatnot), and rogue employees at those OEMs (where security may be less strict than at Microsoft itself) will leak it.

[Toddwjp]

Did they get some one who worked at adobe to design it (this is a good thing)

[NateGSR117]

I like the new look. Not over the top or flash.

[ckit]

I'm using SoftMaker Office Std 2012 and will probably upgrade to SoftMaker Office Pro 2015 when it's released, I stopped feeding Microsoft back in 2009 I think...

[Real_PhillBert]

Looks a lot like office 13...

[GoodBytes]

EDIT - Jesus fucking christ. I knew 365 was sub based, but i didn't know it was £8 month (and that's just for the home edition), Netflix is cheaper than Office 365. I though it'd be £5/month max. How they get away with it, i'll never know.

99$ per year, and it is for 5 PC's AND 5 devices (Android and iOS), and you have every Office software with 1TB OneDrive. Getting 1TB from anywhere else is about the same price as Office 365 Home, so its definitely interesting. Not mention significantly cheaper than normal Office. Assuming you keep Office for 3 years, Office 365 will cost you 300$ and for 5 PC and 5 devices as mentioned, while Office normal is 400$ PER PC, no device support.

I think you can do the math. Not to mention that Office normal you are still using that version, while Office 365 you'll getting this newer version automatically and further versions.

[fojacko]

99$ per year, and it is for 5 PC's AND 5 devices (Android and iOS), and you have every Office software with 1TB OneDrive. Getting 1TB from anywhere else is about the same price as Office 365 Home, so its definitely interesting. Not mention significantly cheaper than normal Office. Assuming you keep Office for 3 years, Office 365 will cost you 300$ and for 5 PC and 5 devices as mentioned, while Office normal is 400$ PER PC, no device support.

I think you can do the math.

 

Office 2007 small business is £200, you get Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Publisher and Outlook. You keep it indefinitely, you have all of the applications you need. 

 

It's obvious that i'm not the person 365 is targeted at, i rarely need any office applications. LibreOffice or OpenOffice would probably be fine for me, but I got the small buisness edition for free because my grandad's workplace bought too many and for some reason they let me have one.

[aj101202]

hmm i like the look of it