Here Office 2016, Microsoft raises the bar of collaboration – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published September 23, 2015 at 6:55.
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Microsoft’s goal is clear, and for quite some time: to make people more productive, and especially those who work with tools that reflect the needs, the dynamics and the peculiarities of the company and related digital. A pillar of this philosophy is Windows 10, a second is the cloud and the third is precisely the productivity, and thus the Office application suite. That now it is available in its new version, Office 2016, baptized with all the honors of the case also on the company’s official blog.

To install it on PC serves carry at least Window 7 while subscribers to Office 365 can choose to download the new app package as part of their subscription. Starting from next month will trigger automatic updates for consumers and small businesses, while the first months of next year will be up to business users.

The factor “cross”
Office 2016 comes with the slogan “The beauty of working together” because of its peculiarities are those to make it simple and functional collaboration among users and to maximize interoperability between the various suite applications and online services of the galaxy and add on Microsoft Windows, Skype virtual assistant Cortana. In two concepts the aim is to simplify the sharing of working documents and interaction between users.

Microsoft aims so everything on the flexibility of its solution because of the many paradigms of the digital society is also one of the smart working, according to patterns of work involving the use of multiple devices anywhere, on-site work at home or on the road. Beyond the ability to distinguish compared to the previous release, Office 2016 reiterates the first “transversal” of the new generation of software made in Redmond. The suite “runs” in fact on PC Windows, Mac, Android and iPad on the tablet and also on all smartphones with onboard mobile operating systems from Apple and Google.

The characteristics of new Office
The 2016 version is enriched by the new versions of productivity apps for the Windows desktop, and then the various Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and so on, and a number of small but significant improvements. Improvements will ensure that the intent of Microsoft sensible advances in the management of the assets by enterprise workgroups.

goodies of the new release are for example the ability to leverage tools like Sway for Windows 10 to create and share interactive stories of great impact on any type of screen or access Office 365 through the technology of fingerprint recognition Hello Windows (from PCs, tablets and smartphones, when the system will be available on mobile phones). Or to use Cortana to facilitate the preparation of the meeting.

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