Sway has started rolling out to Office 365, added more languages, and more!

Body: It’s been an exciting month for Sway and our journey with Sway Preview! At the Ignite conference, we announced that Sway would roll out to Office 365 business and education customers and add support for more languages. Today we’re excited to announce the start of these rollouts, as well as other changes that expand the type of content you can add and the ways you can visualize the multimedia…

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New ways to get more done in Outlook.com

Body: We are pleased to announce an update to Outlook.com that lets you make the most of the moments that matter to you—featuring a refined inbox, new ways to collaborate, an upgraded calendar and much more. This update is rolling out today, in Preview, to a small group of customers and is the first of many innovations coming as we upgrade Outlook.com to a new Office 365-based infrastructure.  These new…

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Early look at Office 2016 Public Preview for Windows—on the desktop and phone

Body: On today’s Office Mechanics show, we’ll take a look at the new Office 2016 Public Preview on Windows 10—both on the desktop and on a phone. Ben Walters joins Jeremy Chapman again to the give an app-by-app tour of Office 2016 Public Preview on a Surface Pro 3 and a Lumia phone.   The Office 2016 Public Preview has been available since May 4th and today we are giving…

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OneNote gets ready for summer technology planning with updates for everyone

Body: “OneNote has truly changed and evolved my classroom…adapting to the students’ needs on a quicker and more individualized basis.” — Michael Williams, Teacher and technology champion at Weston Ranch High School, Manteca USD (Watch his Office Mix to learn more.)   Today we are announcing a number of top requested features for OneNote Class Notebooks, OneNote Staff Notebooks, and OneNote across platforms coming soon to Office 365 customers. We…

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PowerBI News

Body: Recent Releases SQL Server 2016 On-Prem BI Investments BI Roadmap shared at IGNITE Plug-n-play Azure DW +Power BI Mobile BI with Datazen is now FREE Real-time Stream Analytics with Power BI Power BI Preview available worldwide   Latest and Greatest Content Download presentations and papers on SQL Server, Analytics and Power BI. http://www.jenunderwood.com/resources/downloads/​   Training Dashboard in a Day Hands-On Training Events On-Demand  Power BI for BI​ Professionals PowerPoint  Power…

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Recapping Yammer highlights and key takeaways from Ignite

Body: With the whirlwind of Microsoft’s first-ever Ignite conference behind us, I’d like to take this opportunity to recap some of the Yammer highlights and key takeaways from the event. Our inaugural conference was successful on a massive scale, attended by 24,000 people including IT pros, developers, business leaders and influencers. Thousands of you packed into Yammer’s 20+ sessions to learn more about our new focus on team collaboration and…

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OneDrive for Business introduces new data loss prevention capabilities for sync

Body: ​The ability to take OneDrive for Business files offline, apply changes and then sync those changes back is fundamental to helping people manage their files effectively across devices. Many organizations want to ensure their users are only able to sync files to managed- or domain-joined PC’s thereby limiting data leakage possibilities on unmanaged home and personal computers. Today we’re excited to announce that we’re releasing this capability for OneDrive…

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Office for Android phone Preview now available

Body: Over the last 12 months, we’ve transformed Office from a suite of desktop applications to a complete, cross-platform, cross-device solution for getting work done. In January, we delivered the Office apps for Android tablets—and we’re really proud of our 4+ rating in the Google Play store! Today I’m pleased to announce the preview for Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android phones. Join the Microsoft Office for Android community to…

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Office 365 – De-Cluttering everyone’s inbox

Body: Last fall, we introduced Clutter, which moves less important emails out of your inbox and keeps you focused what’s most important to you. Today Clutter is moving over one million emails per day and saves users 82 minutes per month on average. Starting in June, Clutter will be on by default to help more people benefit from Clutter. We’re also introducing new administrative controls for Clutter and improving how…

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