Free Download Office 2016 | Technical Preview
Windows 10 has and continues to grab a huge deal of attention, generating a growing media interest as we near the launch date (29/7), particularly since this is a vital operating system to get right for Redmond given the (relative) failure of Windows 8 (and RT) and the timid reception for Windows 8.1.
However, let's not forget that Microsoft has another major cash cow, Office, which has been gradually transformed from a Windows-centric productivity suite of five core products into a vibrant ecosystem of applications, many of them web-based (welcome to the world of SaaS).
In Microsoft's own words, this time around, the company has reimagined the traditional Office experience for a mobile-first, cloud-first world – one where a client-centric Office 2016 is expected to play an increasingly lesser role compared to Office 365 and Office 2013.
What is it? It is the new version of Office, the first one that is designed and built from the ground-up for mobile and cloud.
What will it cost? The suite will be free for consumers on mobile devices and smaller tablets (with limitations, mind you), and probably as cheap as £95 (around $145, AU$185) for a likely "Office Home & Student 2016" edition, though the RRP of the 2013 version of this flavour is £110 (around $165, AU$215), with the subscription version of the suite (Office 365 Personal) running to £60 (or $70, which is around AU$90) per year.
When will it release? Office 2016 will be launched in autumn 2015.
What's the latest?
Since the launch of Office 2016 (the one at the time of publishing is 16.0.4027.1008) on Windows Preview earlier this year, more than one million customers have used it across both Windows and Mac platforms according to Microsoft and that has been followed by a number of updates including
1. Real Time Presence in word
2. Simplified file sharing
3. Insights (powered by Bing) in Office
4. Version History improvements
5. Improved grammar checker
6. Improved Power Pivot improvements
Note that you need to be an Office 365 customer in order to try Office 2016 and you won't be able to run both (2016 and 2013) concurrently unfortunately.
We previously heard from Julia White, the general manager for Microsoft Office, that Office 2016 (which is coincidentally the 16th iteration of the suite) will be launched in the second half of 2015, and in a recent blog post Redmond mentioned that the suite will be out in the autumn.
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