In November, Microsoft will roll out Skype voice and video integration into its Office Online service worldwide. With the extension in place, Chrome users can now open Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Sway and Word documents when running Office Online apps.
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The desktop version of Skype will get these in-app integration features in 2016.
Microsoft has recently launched video message filters in Skype for Android, iPhone and iPad.
The first and foremost update is that the full suite of Office apps are now much smaller as Microsoft has reduced their sizes by about 50 per cent. Further, it has also added simpler sign-in experience for all the three apps and allows you to download fonts from the cloud. Complaining that too many users were taking advantage of the unlimited space to store entire movie collections, hours of recorded video, and entire PC backups, Microsoft has introduced a new limit of 1 TB on OneDrive storage.
Cloud font support has been added to Excel as well, so the only thing in the changelog that’s not common to Word’s is improved file compatibility, so users can now open files with Read-only recommended and Formula view.
Microsoft Office for Android has been available in various forms since January, before being fully released in June of this year.
Furthermore, cloud font support is now included, allowing users to download their favourite Office fonts for use on mobile devices. The sign up/sign in experience now is easier, so you get get started more quickly with your Microsoft account or Office 365 school or work account. For instance, they have support for Android “Marshmallow”, as well as for Android for Work, which is a scheme for separating work and personal apps.
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With presenter view, users will be able to check speaker notes directly on their Android smartphone and/or tablet, while at the same time they can control what the audience sees when they project to a large screen. Those changes are atop earlier announced UI improvements concerning Android and iOS Outlook apps.
