“The way people work has changed dramatically, and that’s why Microsoft is focused on reinventing productivity and business processes for the mobile-first, cloud-first world”, said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, in a September 22 statement. That’s what Outlook is for!
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Rent the Runway, which now uses Microsoft Office 365 technology suite, will be one of the new users taking advantage of the new Office 2016 release and new Office 365 features. The users who have an Office 365 subscription can upgrade. The company has also announced new and enhanced Office 365 services, built for team productivity.
There is also the ability to share a OneNote notebook, as well as view and co-author Office-based documents such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
The new version of Office unites the Windows and Mac under the same, modern design and bundles a number of collaborative cloud features.
In addition, Office 2016 apps with Office 365 will also offer new capabilities for better enterprise security and protection in the form of data loss prevention and multi-factor authentication for password protected files. Although it remains anchored by the software giant’s stalwart business applications-namely Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint-the latest version of Office hews a little closer to the company’s mobile-friendly, cloud-enabled vision of getting work done.
If it does decide to continue the practice, users should not expect an announcement for two years or more.
Volume licensing customers have to wait to get it on October. 1 from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed Tuesday via e-mail.
Organizations have to indicate which update plan they want be on, either monthly (current branch) or three times a year (current branch for business). Besides, the American multinational improved the services provided in Office 365.
Software giant Microsoft is betting big on adoption of its Office solutions on smartphones and tablets in India as it launches the latest edition of the productivity software suite. He noted that Office is an important product for Microsoft, providing as much as a quarter of the company’s revenue past year.
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Microsoft’s Terry Myerson drew attention to this offer in a blog post congratulating the Office team on a successful launch of their product yesterday. With Microsoft Office projects can be completed within a matter of days or even hours so the workflow keeps running smoothly. However, the new feature has a step-by-step integration that helps users in knowing the contextual meaning of the word they are using.
