Your top 10 questions about Office 2016 answered

Body: ​ ​ We are thrilled to see the positive response for the launch of Office 2016 last week. We’ve received a ton of great feedback and wanted to address some of your top questions: How do I get Office 2016 for Windows if I’m an Office 365 customer? As an existing Office 365 subscriber, Office 2016 is immediately available to you, and based upon your plan, you can choose…

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The new Visio is here—work visually

Body: ​ Visio is the industry-leading diagramming solution used by over 12 million users, and today we’re thrilled to share our latest innovations with you. Visio 2016 makes it easier for everyone to define business processes, document best practices, visualize the future state of transformative initiatives and stay on top of operational insights. Using Office 365, you can share these Visio diagrams with everyone and communicate one version of the truth…

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Office Delve adds Praise, Favorites and enhances content creation

Body: ​ “Recognition is the greatest motivator.” —Gerard C. Eakedale Organizational productivity and morale improve when individuals and teams are recognized for their work. The best productivity tools help people to easily share their knowledge and ideas, make their work discoverable inside their organization, and enable colleagues to show their appreciation and recognize each other’s work. As the modern workplace evolves, Office 365 is also evolving to help people collaborate,…

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Office Delve adds Praise, Favorites and enhances content creation

Body: ​ “Recognition is the greatest motivator.” —Gerard C. Eakedale Organizational productivity and morale improve when individuals and teams are recognized for their work. The best productivity tools help people to easily share their knowledge and ideas, make their work discoverable inside their organization, and enable colleagues to show their appreciation and recognize each other’s work. As the modern workplace evolves, Office 365 is also evolving to help people collaborate,…

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Exchange Server 2016 for on-premises customers now available

Body: ​ ​ ​Last week, we launched the new Office, a set of integrated apps and services that empowers teams to do and achieve more. Today we announced the release of Exchange Server 2016, which brings key innovations in email, collaboration and calendaring in this Office release to on-premises customers.   There’s a lot to like in the new Exchange for both users and IT admins. It integrates with Outlook,…

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Deployment scripts for Office 2016

Body: ​ Last month, we started a community project to help IT pros with Office client deployments using PowerShell to streamline the process. For more details, see Office Deployment Scripts for IT Pros. A month later, it’s time to check in on some of the new developments with this project. As a reminder, all of the scripts are available on our GitHub repository and released under the MIT license. Reorganized…

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Likes and @Mentions coming to Outlook on the web

Body: ​ Over the last several years, social networks have changed the way we communicate. In our personal lives, we show our approval by “Liking” a friend’s status update on Facebook and we “@Mention” others in a Twitter post to call attention to it. In our workplace, these same social concepts became popular through enterprise social tools such as Yammer. Today we’re taking the next step and introducing Like and…

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What’s new in Project 2016

Body: ​ We are excited to announce availability of Project 2016. This release includes significant updates to Project Professional, Project Pro for Office 365 and Project Online. Project 2016 delivers on some of the most requested capabilities: Resource Management and Resource Capacity Planning. Supporting these key capabilities are enhancements such as new Resource Engagements, a brand new experience for resource managers, and Capacity heat maps. Project 2016 now provides an…

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OneDrive for Business sync client preview and new browser, mobile, IT control and developer experiences

Body: ​   ​ Today marks a huge step forward with OneDrive for Business. It’s the most significant set of updates we’ve ever released. First and foremost, we’re delivering a rock-solid new sync experience. Beyond this, we have a new browser experience, mobile app improvements, critical new IT controls and extended developer experiences to enable people to do and achieve more with OneDrive for Business. Our team has set up a…

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