Microsoft Office 2016 Overview: the updated office suite that you waited

In the spring of this year, Microsoft introduced the first public beta Office 2016. Novelty has a fresh design and Mac owners freed from the need to set aside a Windows virtual machine in case of working with office package company. After a few beta updates, the company released the final version Microsoft Office 2016, stable and in no way inferior to analog for Windows.

This update cycle, Microsoft took five years - a catastrophic long term for software standards. Previous Office braked, flew, clashed periodically cease to function, become clogged Mac applications useless and did not meet the design guideline OS X Yosemite. The updated software package there is not just a natural continuation - a completely revised application if written "from scratch".

Applications meet clean and fairly minimalistic interface, everything works smoothly and flawlessly. The developers have worked seriously on the performance and the speed of a public beta test: the novelty overcome the drawbacks and shoot out, became subjectively faster. In addition, the application package supports Retina display and full-screen mode and provides access to the cloud service OneDrive. Please lovers of collaboration similar to Google Drive feature for simultaneous editing a single document by multiple users, it does not matter, they use Office on a Mac, iPad or PC.

For those who goes on a Mac with Windows, Microsoft proposes to use hotkeys in two variations (via cmd and ctrl). Despite expectations seen in the release version support for Dropbox, a major cloud service remained OneDrive. On the whole, the final version is identical betam presented earlier.

If you participated in the beta test (which is very likely if the work involves a Mac the use of the office suite), go to the official release will be for you a required option later week. While that Office 2016 is distributed through subscription on Office 365And in September will be available for separate purchase. During the first month of the new product is free to use, after Microsoft offer to pay a monthly subscription in the amount of 259 rubles.

Microsoft Office 2016