Office 365 – More services join First Release

Body: ​ Frequent updates are a core benefit of Office 365, helping you provide the latest releases of your favorite apps and services to your organization. With First Release, you can opt in to receive updates earlier than the Standard Release. In May, we enhanced First Release based on your feedback, adding First Release Select People. This enables you to select a subset of your users to receive updates early…

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11 features to get the most out of your business email

Body: ​In the world of work, email is a mainstay. It allows us all to communicate at lightning-fast speeds—without having to pick up the phone. It gives us the power to thoughtfully consider projects, questions, answers, opinions, requests and feedback, all of which opens the door to better communication. And it gives us the ability to see the progression of conversations without digging through a mountain of individual messages. However,…

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Outlook Groups now supports 11 new languages and more!

Body: ​ Earlier this year, we introduced a new mobile app called Outlook Groups that lets you engage with your team on your mobile device. Available for Windows Phone, iOS and Android, the Outlook Groups app enables you to have conversations, view and edit files stored in SharePoint, access a shared OneNote notebook, @mention colleagues and groups and even discover other relevant groups. Download the Outlook Groups app and learn…

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Share slides with your social network

Body: ​ Social Share, a Microsoft Garage project It’s a snap to share presentations with your social network using Social Share—a Microsoft Garage project. Share snapshots of slides or even the entire presentation as a photo album or video. Share from PowerPoint to Facebook and Twitter Social Share is a free Plug-in to PowerPoint to make it easier to share your content and slides to your social network.    Post…

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Enforcing Office 365 identity in Yammer now available

Body: ​ A year ago, we announced that you could use your Office 365 credentials to sign in to Yammer. Today we’re excited to share with you a new feature that supports enforcing Office 365 identity in Yammer. By enforcing Office 365 identity in Yammer and configuring federated identity in Office 365, admins can achieve single sign-on (SSO) capabilities for all services in Office 365, which includes Yammer. This further…

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Introducing the Microsoft Graph

Body: ​   As a company, we are focused on reimagining the way the world should work. In an age of information abundance, we understand that people are seeking integrated experiences that help them break out of knowledge silos, “work like a network” and connect information from multiple touchpoints in meaningful ways. Office extensibility has always been about ubiquitous connectivity, enabling new experiences on mobile devices, and empowering developers to create powerful and…

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30 feature updates to “Get & Transform” in Excel 2016 and Power Query add-in

Body: ​ This week we’re pleased to announce a new set of features for “Get & Transform” in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in for Excel 2013/2010. This update is packed with lots of new features that have been requested by many customers. We expect that you will find this update extremely useful. How can I get this update? For Excel 2016: Install the latest Click-to-Run update for Excel…

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30 feature updates to “Get & Transform” in Excel 2016 and Power Query add-in

Body: ​ This week we’re pleased to announce a new set of features for “Get & Transform” in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in for Excel 2013/2010. This update is packed with lots of new features that have been requested by many customers. We expect that you will find this update extremely useful. How can I get this update? For Excel 2016: Install the latest Click-to-Run update for Excel…

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Attachments in Outlook 2016 – Ready for collaboration

Body: Tired of digging around for the file you want to attach when you were just working on it earlier? Tired of later trying to sift through emails to find links shared with you? With the release of Outlook 2016 for Windows, attachments just got a whole lot better. You can now skip the hassles associated with finding and sharing files, regardless of whether you were working on them on your computer, phone or tablet.…

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