What’s new: December 2014

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Before the holiday the Office 365 team was busy in December delivering service updates and new apps across devices. Excel and the Business Intelligence scenarios and features also received numerous updates to enhance stability, do more with maps, embedding Power Views in websites and more. Lync added support for video calling with Skype users, updates for Android, Windows Phone, and Lync Room System. Yammer Enterprise was added to…

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New accessibility enhancements for Office Online

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ When we first built Office Online, we worked hard to make the suite accessible to blind and low vision users by using a new web accessibility standard called WAI-ARIA. While this web standard has allowed Office Online to be usable with a screen reader, we’ve made some further improvements over the past year to provide an even better experience. We are excited to talk about these improvements and…

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Office 365 news round-up

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ “Think Globally, Act Locally” became the mantra of the fledgling environmental movement after the first nationwide Earth Day celebration in 1970. The motto was a driving force that represented the impact individuals working in their local communities can have on a global scale. Many people view the software they use in much the same way. Software has the ability to enhance the productivity of individuals by enabling them to communicate, collaborate…

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Introducing boards in Office Delve – A new way to organize and share work

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ As Office Delve continues to roll out to Office 365 business customers, we love hearing about how people are using this new, innovative experience to discover and explore content that’s relevant to the work they and their teams are doing. Using Office Graph, an intelligent fabric that applies machine learning to content and interactions occurring in Office 365, Delve helps you get back to pertinent documents, discover relevant content that has been…

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The Office for Android tablet preview expands

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:    ​In November, we invited you to sign up for the Office for Android tablet preview. With such an overwhelmingly positive response from people around the world, we made it even easier for customers to download the preview apps by requesting access to the Google Plus community. Over the last two months, we have heard from people all over the world who want the power of Office on their…

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​The Office Blog shared a lot of exciting news in 2014

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​The Office Blog shared a lot of exciting news in 2014. Here are the top five most popular posts of the year: 1. Announcing the Office you love, now on the iPad (1.3k shares) http://bit.ly/1DcvqFR 2. Students and teachers: You may be eligible to get Office for free! (955 shares) http://bit.ly/1yh3MIL 3. Office 365 offers greater privacy, security and regulatory compliance (595 shares) http://bit.ly/1AkcIv3 4. Introducing Skype for Business…

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Get to know Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Watch these videos to become familiar with Office 365 and how to read email, share documents, and more. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Download-5e2d89b3-82d8-4f91-9485-2f1982b32b90 Inside this course: Welcome to Office 365 (3:00)Learn about what’s included in Office 365. Use email and more in Office 365 (2:21)Use Outlook and Outlook Web App for email, calendars, and more. Use Office and Office Online in Office 365 (2:36)Use Office and Office Online with Office 365 to improve…

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Office 365 – Microsoft Delivers New Features in Preview for Power BI

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​On Thursday afternoon Microsoft delivered some new features for Power BI. The features, now in preview, shows Microsoft’s dedication to improving its data consumption service. Power BI is an Office 365 add-on that allows companies and organizations to synch data from multiple sources and then provide reporting and filtering to make the data actionable and pertinent. It’s Big Data for Office 365. Here’s what Microsoft unveiled: Dashboards – Power…

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Office 365 news round-up

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​2014 has been a big year for innovation on Office 365, with Office Mix, Delve and Sway showing just a few of the ways we’ve added more value to the Office family. We’ve added functionality across other platforms, getting great reviews for the Office for iPad and Office for iPhone apps and moving toward general availability of Office for Android tablets in early 2015. With the work we’ve done, we could easily…

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