Announcing general availability of ExpressRoute for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   ​ Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365 enables organizations to establish a private, managed network connection to Office 365 as an alternative to connecting over the Internet. This direct connection offers customers more predictable network performance, an SLA for guaranteed availability and additional data privacy. As more organizations depend on Office 365 for document collaboration and communications, they will come to depend more and more on the network…

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Download our free Office 2016 Quick Start Guides

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ To coincide with last week’s release of Office 2016, we put together a set of handy Quick Start Guides that introduce you to the newest versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote.   Whether you’re coming from previous versions of your favorite apps and want a quick orientation about where to find familiar basics or you’re entirely new to Office and want an overview of how…

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Office 365—project and portfolio management (PPM) for the mobile-first, cloud-first world

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Four months ago, we announced the acquisition of WunderList, the highly acclaimed to-do list app. Last week, we announced the preview of Office 365 Planner for lightweight project management, and today, we are thrilled to announce that we are acquiring several apps and add-ins for Project Online from our partners—Sensei Project Solutions, Inc. and Projectum ApS. Between Wunderlist, Office 365 Planner and Project Online, you now have tailored,…

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What’s new in Office 2016 for developers

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ As you’ve read, the new Office is here and for developers, this is an exciting time! The ability to insert add-ins into your documents, call new Office.js APIS, launch task panes inside your Office clients and run commands directly from the ribbon increases the productivity of your entire team! Add-ins now work across Office 2016 running on Windows, Office Online in your browser, Office 2016 on the Mac…

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Introducing Office 365 Planner

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Share We are excited to introduce a brand new experience in Office 365—Office 365 Planner, which offers people a simple and highly visual way to organize teamwork. Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you’re working on, and get updates on progress. Planner can be used to manage a marketing event, brainstorm new product ideas,…

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Introducing availability of Office 365 Groups in Outlook 2016

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Last year, we introduced a new cross-suite service for Office 365 commercial and education customers called Office 365 Groups, which enables people to create public or private groups. The first apps to take advantage of the Office 365 Groups service include Outlook, OneDrive for Business, OneNote, Skype for Business, Power BI and Dynamics CRM. Yammer, Delve and Planner will also soon take advantage of this service.   Along…

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The new Office is here !!!!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ It’s here! Today is the worldwide release of Office 2016 for Windows. This marks a milestone in delivering new value for Office 365 subscribers with a focus on collaboration, apps that work for you, a perfect pairing with Windows 10, and security features businesses will love. It also marks a new model for delivery, where subscribers can expect to get more frequent updates with new features and improvements.…

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Office 365 News Roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ ​Office 2016 is scheduled to begin rolling out on September 22, and we’ve already started delivering new tools and resources to help IT administrators prepare, deploy and manage it. We’ve also added new IT capabilities to Office 2016 and made significant improvements to the Office update model. As Julia White, general manager of Office 365 Technical Product Management, said in a recent blog post, “This is a seminal…

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Office 365—monthly Dev Digest for September

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Welcome to the seventh edition of Dev Digest, designed to help you—the Office 365 developer—keep up-to-date with what’s new in Office 365 development. This has been an exciting month of announcements for Office 365 developers. We launched a new Yeoman generator for building Office Add-ins. This is a powerful tool for developers who do not use Visual Studio but are interested in building Office add-ins. You can use…

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