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Office 2016 Developer Preview Focuses On Business

April 6, 2015 by Zack Duncan Leave a Comment

Within the sea of tech devices, gadgets, and gizmos, it can be hard for software to shine through and earn its place in the spotlight. When you have tech giants like Apple still dominating the market, its hard for companies like Microsoft to smash through the gates. That being said, Microsoft Office has always been the go to choice for home users and businesses alike. Now Microsoft is showing the first previews of its new Microsoft Office 2016. The new Office 2016 is gearing itself more towards businesses, IT professionals, and developers. If you happen to be one of the Office 365 Business subscribers your first public sneak peek is already available.

If you’re looking to sign up for the preview, just to see what the new Office 2016 has to offer, then just head to the Microsoft Connect website. Obviously, Microsoft will make program accessible to individual Office 365 users. Also, dont confuse the touch based office applications that Microsoft rolled out with the Windows 10 Tech preview. They don’t really coincide with each other like one may think.

So what exactly should we expect to see from the new Microsoft Office 2016 preview? Well for starters, they’re now offering Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for their PowerPoint, Word, and Excel programs. This feature had already been available for some of their existing office programs, such as Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and their email program, Outlook. This DLP service will now give IT administrators the ability to keep Office Documents secure by specialized authoring policies and centralized sharing. Any business knows how critical they’re documents can be, and while it may not be the biggest addition, it’s definitely one of the more essential add-ons to the new Office 2016.

Speaking of Outlook, Microsoft is also making improvements on their brand specific email service. Naturally, one of the upgrades we will be seeing is a faster overall performance. We can also look forward to a more reliable search, for whenever we happen to be looking for that one email with last week’s TPS reports attached to them. There will be new additional storage options as well as multi-factor authentication support for the software.

Office 2016’s preview is also showcasing better accessibility features along with new deployment features to accompany it. Features likes new bandwidth management, better keyboard accessibility, and fixing the readability issues that Outlook was experiencing. If you’ve been looking for a way to manage different device activations across a multitude of users, the new Office 2016 preview even takes care of that as well.

Remember that this is all just for the Preview version of the Microsoft’s new productivity suite, and that the full version is not yet ready, nor does it have a release date. Microsoft is planning for the end of this year, for its release. With that in mind, Microsoft is still making sure to highlight and address all of the new features that will pop up as they become available.

This may not be the biggest news for you if you just use Office at home, but for business and enterprise, the new Office 2016 is looking to be a very welcome asset.

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Office 365 Aimed at Small to Medium-Sized Businesses, According to Microsoft

June 30, 2011 by Zack Duncan Leave a Comment

For the launch of Office 365, Microsoft is paying special attention to how the new service could potentially help small to medium-sized businesses. According to Microsoft Corporate Vice President within the Microsoft Office Division Product Management Group Kirk Koenigsbauer, “While we launched Office 365 for all customers, we wanted to focus today on the small and mid-sized opportunities.”

During the New York City unveiling event, CEO Steve Ballmer did some name dropping of large companies already using Microsoft cloud services. These names included the likes of DuPont, Hyatt, Starbucks and Volvo. However, Microsoft’s overall marketing emphasis was centered on making Office 365 as appealing as possible to small to medium-sized businesses, the likes of which spend nearly $800 billion every year on IT products.

This market is fragmented in terms of what Microsoft products are being used. Some businesses may be using older versions of Exchange or Microsoft Office, or they may just be using a collaboration of multiple products. What is worse is that a lot of organizations have small, if not non-existent, IT departments.

According to Koenigsbauer, “Cloud services are a great value proposition for SMBs. They have very small IT staffs. They don’t have the infrastructure. They don’t have the capital to buy new racks of servers.” Over 70% of Office 365 beta users were SMBs, according to Ballmer. Ballmer also listed other potential users, including real estate agents, accountants, lawyers, cleaning services and auto dealerships.

According to Ballmer, “Office 365 can be exciting particularly for companies that have little or no IT support and very little time and financial resources to dedicate to technology. Office 365 … is a big step forward. These businesses really will be able to let their employees share information in new ways.”

Source: Network World – Microsoft aims Office 365 at small businesses

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