About two weeks ago, the Office team pushed an update for the folks enrolled in the Windows Insider program; the update added quite a few significant features and it is now rolling out to every Windows 10 user. The benefit of keeping app and operating system updates separate are two-fold. …
Read More »Microsoft announces Microsoft Teams, its very own Slack competitor
After several weeks of leaked screenshots and rumors, Microsoft finally announced Microsoft Teams at the Office event in Manhattan. Microsoft Teams is meant for businesses that are already knee-deep in Microsoft’s ecosystem with Office 365. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKU-FMzZFF0 Teams is supposed to be a Slack competitor – it offers everything that Slack …
Read More »Microsoft updates the Outlook for Windows 10 app with interactive notifications and more
The Office team at Microsoft has been doing things quite differently lately – various apps from the Office suite are now available for free on various mobile platforms and as UWP apps on Windows 10; while they do not share feature parity with their full-blown Office counterparts, they do come …
Read More »SharePoint comes to Windows 10 Mobile, but you need a work or school account to use it
Microsoft released this app in a public preview back in September; it seems Microsoft is now ready to peel off that sticker and bring the app to the Windows Store as a full release. The announcement comes via Microsoft SharePoint’s Twitter – not much fuss there. SharePoint is an integral part …
Read More »Microsoft is building an Office Hub for iOS, codenamed Havana
Microsoft is building a new application for Office users on iOS – the Office Hub. Codenamed Havana, the hub is built for Office 365 users who would like to track all of the activity happening within their Office 365 network at a single centralized hub. It’s not the first time …
Read More »Microsoft announces Office event for November 2 in New York
Microsoft has started sending invites for an Office event planned only a week after the October 26th event in New York. The Office event will be on November 2nd. Things aren’t very clear about what will be shown at the event – a similar event hosted in San Francisco in …
Read More »Microsoft is expanding Learning Tools to rest of the Office Suite
Microsoft’s Office suite is probably the 2nd most complicated software built by Microsoft – 1st is, of course, Windows. Microsoft has been building Office for more than two decades, and over these years the focus has not only been on adding features but also making them accessible. Accessibility is important …
Read More »Office Mobile adds charts and more in the October Insider Slow update
Another month, another Insider Slow update. The new update has something for every Office app – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. The Office Mobile apps – despite the name – do work on the desktop; these apps are designed from the ground up for UWP – they work on everything …
Read More »Office 2016 for Mac gets new features in the October Insiders Slow update
Microsoft announced the Slow ring for Office Insiders four weeks ago, and the updates have started pouring in. The Slow ring gets an update every two weeks. With today’s update, Office 2016 for Mac receives a few new features across all of the Office apps. The new version is 15.27 (161003), …
Read More »Microsoft announced Visio for Windows Phone and Android
Office Visio is probably one of those apps that you forget exists in the Office suite. Mostly used for diagrams and charts, an iPad version of it was announced last month. It seems Microsoft wants to expand its Office suite on the various mobile platforms. The Insider preview program for …
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