Body: With the 2015 Cricket World Cup in full swing, there’s all sorts of folks who are interested in digging into the details about their home team, their upcoming rivals or their favorite players. With all the data available, how do you get it into shape so that you can analyze what’s important to you (or your team)? This is a job for Excel and its data analysis tools—Power Query…
Read MoreOffice 365 – News Roundup
Body: We are now living in a mobile world where devices outnumber people. To be productive when you’re on the go, you need access to the data and applications that allow you to be effective while untethered from your workspace or home. At Microsoft, with our mobile-first, cloud-first strategy, we strive to provide our customers with the services, applications and data that roam wherever they do. Microsoft recently announced…
Read MoreSway is now collaborative—create and edit together with others!
Body: When we announced Sway, we knew that people would want to work on standout class projects, eye-catching business reports, engaging vacation recaps, or more, together—it’s the way things are done now, right? But Sway up until now has been a tool for individual authors to create polished content in a new and interactive way to share with their audiences. However, we know you’ve asked for shared editing in Sway…
Read MoreOffice Lens comes to iPhone and Android
Body: Just over a year ago, we introduced Office Lens for Windows Phone—and over that time the app has become one of the most popular free apps on Windows Phone, with an average rating of 4.6 stars (out of 5) from more than 18,500 reviews. Today, we’re releasing Office Lens for iPhone and Android phones. Office Lens is a handy capture app that turns your smartphone into a pocket scanner…
Read MoreWhat’s new in Skype for Business and how you can take control of updates
Body: With April’s Office update, Lync will become Skype for Business, with a new user interface (UI) in the Windows desktop application. On today’s show, we take a look the new Skype for Business desktop application for Windows. BJ Haberkorn joins Jeremy Chapman to demonstrate what’s new and explain what’s coming. With April’s update from Lync to Skype for Business around the corner, Jeremy also demonstrates how you can…
Read MoreMore updates for Outlook for iOS and Android
Body: Since the launch of Outlook for iOS and Android in January, we’ve been hard at work rolling out updates every few weeks. Today, we are happy to share more details about recent improvements to our People and Calendar experiences, plus a bit more information on what’s next. Revised People section Outlook’s People section now is a complete address book. We’ve replaced our previous, lightweight “top contacts” view with a…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Built-in mobile device management now generally available for Office 365 commercial plans
Body: A few months ago at TechEd Europe we announced that built-in mobile device management (MDM) capabilities were coming to Office 365. Today, we are pleased to offer the general availability of MDM capabilities for Office 365. With MDM for Office 365, you can manage access to Office 365 data across a diverse range of phones and tablets, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices. And what makes today’s news…
Read MoreThe new Office 365 Compliance Center
Body: The Office 365 Compliance Center contains the key compliance-related features for an Office 365 admin to manage compliance across Office 365, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online. This new management interface represents our evolving compliance offering, which will eventually span all Office 365 compliance-related features and help you meet your legal, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements. Consolidating compliance functionality across services into this single area will make compliance features easier to access…
Read MoreQuick tour of Office 2016 for Mac Preview
Body: On today’s Office Mechanics show, we’ll take a look at the new Office 2016 for Mac Preview, which brings together all the most recent updates for Office on the Mac. Kaberi Chowdhury joins Jeremy Chapman to demonstrate highlights of what’s new with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook and even the newest member of the Office for Mac family, OneNote. Office 2016 for Mac was announced earlier this month…
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