If you have an Office 365 ProPlus, Business Premium or Enterprise E3 licence (that means business users) you can now try out an early version of Office 2016 for Windows. It’s officially called the “Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview”. You can go to Microsoft Connect for details and apply for access to the […]
Back in 2014, Microsoft made Office 365, including Office software, available to many US students. The same program is now available globally. If the school buys Office software for their faculty and staff, the students get free Office 365 accounts. The program now covers, among many, 1.1 million students in New York City, all students […]
Would you like a peek at the next version of Microsoft Office for Windows? Well you can, if you’re willing to take a risk and play by Microsoft’s rules. Office 2016 (also called Office 365 Desktop) Technical Preview is now available for download. Details on how to do that are below. Say Nothing To qualify […]
After years of teasing, Microsoft has today released beta versions of their touch interface Office applications. These are proper touch interface versions of Office programs, not the lame ‘touch’ button in Office 2013 which merely makes the ribbon spacing larger. For Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, there’s now beta versions released of the software that […]
Also from NeoWin are some screen shots from Office 2016. They don’t reveal a lot but are still interesting. Here’s the Word 2016 ribbon with the Word 2013 ribbon below for comparison. The Office 2016 example uses the Black theme which Microsoft seems to unduly love these days. Redmond hopes that the ‘new’ look will […]
