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Microsoft Office 2016
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial release22 September 2015; 8 years ago (2015-09-22)[1]
Stable release
16.0.6366.2062 / 21 January 2016; 8 years ago (2016-01-21)[2]
Operating systemWindows 7 SP1 or later[3]
PlatformIA-32, x64
Available in40 languages[4]
List of languages
English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
TypeOffice suite
LicenseTrialware
Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial release9 July 2015; 9 years ago (2015-07-09)[6]
Stable release
15.18.0 / 12 January 2016; 8 years ago (2016-01-12)[7]
Operating systemOS X Yosemite or later[3]
Platformx64[8]
Available in16 languages[9]
List of languages
English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Microsoft Office 2016 (codenamed Office 16) is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, succeeding both Office 2013 and Office for Mac 2011. It was released on OS X on 9 July 2015 for Office 365 subscribers.[6][10][11] Mainstream support ends on October 13, 2020, and extended support ends on October 14, 2025, the same times as Windows 10. The perpetually licensed version on OS X and Windows was released on 22 September 2015.[12]

New features

Windows

New features in the Windows release include the ability to create, open, edit, and save files in the cloud straight from the desktop, a new search tool for commands available in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook named "Tell Me", more "Send As" options in Word and PowerPoint, and co-authoring in real time with users connected to Office Online.[13][14][15] Other smaller features include Insights, a feature powered by Bing to provide contextual information from the web, a Designer sidebar in PowerPoint to optimize the layout of slides, new chart types and templates in Excel (such as treemap, sunburst chart (also known as a ring chart), waterfall chart, box plot and histogram, and financial and calendar templates), new animations in PowerPoint (such as the Morph transition), the ability to insert online video in OneNote, and a data loss prevention feature in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.[14][15]

Office 2016 also removes the ability to install only some office components, only allowing installation of the entire suite of Office programs [16]. In addition, Microsoft Office 2016 cannot coexist with older versions of standalone office apps (sold outside the context of a Microsoft Office suite). Microsoft offers to freely replace these older versions with an updated version.[17]

Mac

New features in the Mac release include an updated user interface that uses ribbons, full support for Retina Display, and new sharing features for Office documents.[11][18]

In Word, there is a new Design tab, an Insights feature, which is powered by Bing, and real-time co-authoring. In Excel, there is a Recommended Charts feature, and PivotTable Slicers. In PowerPoint, there are theme variants, which provide different color schemes for a theme. In Outlook, there is a Propose New Time feature, the ability to see calendars side by side, and a weather forecast in the calendar view.[18]

Outlook 2016 for Mac has very limited support for synchronization of collaboration services outside of basic email.[19]

Editions

Traditional editions

As with previous versions, Office 2016 is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets. All traditional editions of Microsoft Office 2016 contain Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote are licensed for use on one computer.[20][21]

Five traditional editions of Office 2016 were released for Windows:

  • Home & Student: This retail suite includes the core applications only.[20]
  • Home & Business: This retail suite includes the core applications and Outlook.[20]
  • Standard: This suite, only available through volume licensing channels, includes the core applications, as well as, Outlook and Publisher.[22]
  • Professional: This retail suite includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher and Access.[20]
  • Professional Plus: This suite, only available through volume licensing channels, includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher, Access and Skype for Business.[22]

Three traditional editions of Office 2016 were released for Mac:

  • Home & Student: This retail suite includes the core applications only.[21]
  • Home & Business: This retail suite includes the core applications and Outlook.[21]
  • Standard: This suite, only available through volume licensing channels, includes the core applications and Outlook.[22]

Office 365

Main article: Microsoft Office 365

The Office 365 subscription services, which were previously aimed towards business and enterprise users, were expanded for Office 2016 to include new plans aimed at home use. The subscriptions allow use of the Office 2016 applications by multiple users using a software as a service model. Different plans are available for Office 365, some of which also include value-added services, such as 1 TB of OneDrive storage and 60 Skype minutes per month on the Home Premium plan.

Design

The user interface design of Office 2016 for Windows is relatively unchanged from its predecessor, Office 2013. It retains the flat design that was introduced along with Microsoft design language, albeit a few modifications to the layout are made, in order to conform with the design of Microsoft Office Mobile.[23] Office 2016 has three themes. The default theme, known as "colorful", features a solid colour on the top band of the ribbon, corresponding to the colour of the Office app being used, for example, a solid dark blue is featured prominently in Microsoft Word. The theme had been described as useful in making the tab headings more distinct.[24] In addition, both the "white" and "dark grey" themes from Office 2013 are available as well, though, no new backgrounds have been added, nor existing backgrounds removed.[24]

Updates

November update

Microsoft began rolling out an Office 2016 'November update' to Office Insiders on Windows on December 3, 2015. The update was originally planned to be released alongside the Windows 10 November update, but was delayed. The update includes new features for Word 2016, Excel 2016, PowerPoint 2016, and OneNote 2016, and was released to Office 365 Current Branch users on December 9, 2015.[15][25] The update was not released to users of the traditional editions.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ White, Julia (10 September 2015). "Admins—get ready for Office 2016, rollout begins September 22!". Microsoft.
  2. ^ "Office 365 client update branch releases". TechNet. Microsoft. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  3. ^ a b "System requirements for Office 2016". Microsoft. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Language identifiers and OptionState Id values in Office 2013". Microsoft. 12 May 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
  5. ^ "Microsoft® Support Ending Dates for Retail/OEM Consumer/SOHO Operating Systems and Front Office Software". allyncs.com. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  6. ^ a b Warren, Tom (4 May 2015). "Microsoft one-ups Google Docs with real-time editing in Office 2016". The Verge. Vox Media.
  7. ^ "Description of the security update for Office 2016 for Mac: January 12, 2016". Microsoft. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  8. ^ "Older 64-bit Macs out of the picture for Mountain Lion". CNET. CBS Interactive. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  9. ^ "Office for Mac 2016 in 16 languages". Microsoft. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  10. ^ Steele, Billy (22 January 2015). "Office 2016 will hit desktops later this year". Engadget. AOL.
  11. ^ a b Koenigsbauer, Kirk (9 July 2015). "Office 2016 for Mac is here!". Office Blogs. Microsoft. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  12. ^ Koenigsbauer, Kirk (22 September 2015). "The new Office is here". Office Blogs. Microsoft. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  13. ^ Popa, Bogdan (4 May 2015). "New Office 2016 for Windows Desktop Public Preview Available for Download". Softpedia. SoftNews.
  14. ^ a b Spataro, Jared (4 May 2015). "Office 2016 Public Preview now available". Office Blogs. Microsoft. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  15. ^ a b c d "Office 2016's November update finally rolls out to early testers". PCWorld. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  16. ^ "Can I do a custom install of individual Office suite applications?". Microsoft.
  17. ^ ""We need to remove some older apps" error". Office.com. Microsoft.
  18. ^ a b "What's New in Office 2016 for Mac". Office. Microsoft. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  19. ^ "Compare Outlook 2016 for Mac with Outlook 2016 for Windows". TechNet. Microsoft. 3 September 2015.
  20. ^ a b c d "Choose Microsoft Office Products". Office. Microsoft. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  21. ^ a b c "Choose Microsoft Office Products". Office. Microsoft. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  22. ^ a b c "Compare Microsoft Office Volume Licensing Suites". Office. Microsoft. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  23. ^ Warren, Tom (16 March 2015). "Microsoft Office 2016 includes a colorful new theme". The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  24. ^ a b Anderson, Tim (18 March 2015). "Delving into Office 2016: Microsoft goes public with new preview". The Register. Situation Publishing. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  25. ^ "What's New and Improved in Office 2016 for Office 365 - Office Support". support.office.com. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
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