Power Mac Center, the premier Apple partner in the Philippines just launched Microsoft’s Office 2016 for the Mac last November 27th at the Power Plant Mall in Rockwell, Makati.

The Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac will include the latest versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote to Apple users, providing them with the same productivity functions and features that are enjoyed by PC users.

The productivity suite includes professionally designed online templates, sharper graphics on Apple’s retina display, and support for multi-touch gestures. The apps also have a redesigned ribbon menu that seamlessly blend with Mac OS’ user interface. Moreover, Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac will have improved integration with cloud services such as OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint.

Power Mac Center is truly committed to provide Filipino consumers the complete Apple experience. We are always looking for ways to support their needs, which is why we know that a lot of our loyal patrons have been anticipating the Office 365 for OS and iOS. Aside from familiar apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Office 365 has a lot of new and improved features like Skype, OneNote and OneDrive, optimized for OS and iOS devices.” - Joey Alvarez, Marketing Director of Power Mac Center. 

In the same way, Jerry Bongco, Director for Consumer Business Division at Microsoft Philippines expressed their company’s support to Power Mac’s drive to provide the same excellent user experience to Apple users stating:

This partnership is a key milestone for Microsoft Philippines as we make Office 365 available across all platforms in the mobile-first, cloud-first world. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every individual and organization to achieve more – and we’ve taken this to heart by breaking down ‘competitive barriers’ and partnering with Power Mac Center. We want to make Office accessible across all platforms, most especially in a wide range of Apple devices.

Many Mac users in the Philippines have been waiting for the official release of MS Office 2016 in the country since its release in the US a couple of months ago.

The productivity suite promises to give the best of both worlds for Mac users incorporating the familiar Office experience on the PC and iPad with the best devices that Apple has to offer.

John Erwin Magno of Microsoft Philippines talked about the things to love about the new Office 2016 bundle. People from the press got a chance to go hands-on with the Office 2016. They were assisted by staff from Microsoft Philippines and Power Mac Center.  

For customers who already have Apple devices, Office 365 is available as a standalone product at Power Mac Center for ₱2,730. Meanwhile, Office 365 Home is priced at ₱3,500 and Office 365 University retails for around ₱3,360. Office for Mac Home Student 2016 goes for ₱7,650 while the Business version will cost ₱14,500.

Office 365 requires 4GB RAM and at least Mac OS X 10.10. Customers who will purchase any Mac device on cash or installment from December 1, 2015 to February 29, 2016 will get 50 % discount on the Office 365 Personal.

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Considered by many as the de facto productivity app for the PC and even for Macs, Microsoft Office has helped a lot of people become productive in school, work or business for the past few decades. As we celebrate the anniversary of one of Microsoft’s greatest contributions in society, our friends from NeoMam Studios has sent us this infographic from microsofttraining.net showing the timeline of the productivity suite from its inception in the early 1990s and its evolution throughout the years.

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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.

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Microsoft just announced today the newest version of its Office productivity suite as well as its Skype for business instant messaging client at its Convergence 2015 event in Atlanta.

The productivity suite preview is specifically built to provide convenience for IT administrators who manage enterprise accounts. The 2016 version of Office brings a number of improvements into the table including features as Data Loss Protection (DLP), improvements in Outlook including multi-factor authentication and improved overall performance as well as improvements in accessibility.

The company also announced its Skype for Business communication tool. The new software is actually the next version of Microsoft’s enterprise messaging client – Microsoft Lync, and combines the familiar feature set of previous versions of Lync but gets the Skype flavor.

Microsoft has baked numerous features into the software including presence, instant messaging, voice and video calls, online meetings and other Office integration features. The company also promised that the software will generally be available by April. 

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It looks like a lot of the major tech companies are starting to realize that going into a legal battle with another company for patent or copyright infringement isn’t really a very productive exercise. And recently we’ve seen a lot of big companies the likes of Tesla, Microsoft and Canon sign agreements that will allow other brands to freely use their patents.

Today four new companies have forged similar agreements. The first two are Microsoft and Dropbox who have announced a few hours ago a partnership that will allow the Dropbox app to work more conveniently with the Microsoft Office app. Specifically, users will be able to edit Office files from the Dropbox mobile app, access DB files from the Office app and Share DB links direct from Office.

The new features will be rolling out to all Dropbox users on iOS and Android in the coming weeks. Moreover, Dropbox stated they plan to extend these features to the web version of the service and Office Online. They will also be releasing a Windows Phone and Windows tablet version of Dropbox starting next year.

The second pair of companies that made an announcement today was LG and Google. The two companies went into a patent licensing agreement which is said to cover a wide range of products and technologies.

The agreement will cover both companies’ existing patents as well as those that will be filed in the next 10 years. The details of the deal are not disclosed yet but without any legal worries, this would allow the two companies to properly focus on product development and bring consumers better products in the future.

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