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

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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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Office 365 – De-Cluttering everyone’s inbox

Nuno Árias Silva

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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Power Map for Excel–May update for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In the May 2015 update of Office 365 we are proud to introduce a new core feature to Power Map: Custom Regions. The Custom Regions feature allows data to be mapped to the regions that matter most to you, even if they are not the traditional zip code, county, state or country regions. Custom regions are useful for scenarios involving sales districts, school districts, congressional districts, land lot development, crop…

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