Microsoft’s Office suite can be considered as the go-to
productivity software by many people all over the world. And since the Redmond
company launched the software back in the 90s, MS Office hasn’t been challenged
until the arrival of cloud-based productivity software like Google Docs.
And although the company has released a subscription version
of the suite – Office 365, it can’t be denied that majority of its users still
prefer the software version that resides locally on their machines.
Fortunately, Microsoft knows this so that’s why they’re still refreshing the
desktop version of Office.
This week, the 2016 iteration of the software has become
available as a public preview. And the suite packs a couple of features that
would appeal to people who do collaborative work. This basically is hinged on
the fact that the applications will be integrated with OneDrive.
At the moment, only Word and Outlook 2016 will have OneDrive
integration but it’s likely that other apps in the group will get the feature.
Having said this, users who choose to share their documents with other people
will be able to see who edited which part of the document. The downside is that
you have to save the document to OneDrive or its corresponding folder in your
machine for the feature to work.
Outlook on the other hand will use the cloud service
integration differently by allowing users to save email attachments. There are
also some nifty tools within MS Office that are quite Google-ish like the
Clutter feature in Exchange in Outlook that works like Google’s Inbox app on
Android and Tell Me that gives you
instructions on how to use certain features of the software.
