Earlier today AbsoluteGeeks was invited to the Microsoft’s HQ in Dubai Internet City to be shown a preview of their latest product: Microsoft Office 2016. The apps included in Microsoft Office 2016 are part of their greater suite of cloud-based subscription service, Office 365. We were also notified that enhanced services based on team productivity were built for Office 365.
These changes harken back to when Satya Nadella, the current CEO of Microsoft, stated the following: “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. These latest innovations take another big step forward in transforming Office from a familiar set of individual productivity apps to a connected set of apps and services designed for modern working, collaboration and teamwork.”
So what exactly, you may ask, does Office 2016 contain that is revolutionary in the eyes of Microsoft? Office 2016 delivers new versions of the Office desktop apps for Windows, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Project, Visio and Access. By subscribing to Office 365, customers can get always-up-to-date, fully installed apps for use across their devices, combined with a continually evolving set of consumer and commercial services, such as OneDrive online storage, Skype for Business, Delve, Yammer and enterprise-grade security features.
I won’t go into detail about these singular apps, pending a thorough review that will published here on AbsoluteGeeks ASAP. I can however state that while Office 2016 is purportedly built on three pillars: Teamwork, Windows 10 and the User, I can safely say that even from the slightest glance, Teamwork, i.e: Collaboration, is what Office 2016 is all about. The apps are tailored around the ease of sharing your work with co-workers in real time, letting you collaborate over large distances and through mediums such as smartphones, laptops or tablets. Rather than a pillar, Teamwork is the quintessential lynchpin of the Office 2016 model.
The new Office 2016 apps are available in 40 languages and require Windows 7 or later. Starting Tuesday, Office 365 subscribers can choose to download the new Office 2016 apps as part of their subscription. Automatic updates will begin rolling out to consumer and small-business subscribers next month, and to commercial customers early next year. Office 2016 is also available today as a one-time purchase for both PCs and Macs.
A thorough review of Office 2016 will be posted on AbsoluteGeeks shortly.
