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Microsoft Office 2016 Final Released

Berryracer

Berryracer

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If you are an Office 365 subscriber like me, you can now download the Final Version of Office 2016 for free via My Office Account Page:

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I gave up on word after Microshaft 13 - Uninstalled it and went back to 2010. if this is as bad as I've come to expect from Microshaft I may go back to Word Perfect X7. I would if I didn't use Excel so darn much.
 
Still giving me 2013 on my Office 365 ProPlus account. According to everything I'm seeing I'm supposed to be getting 2016, but I guess I'll check tomorrow.

2016 on my Mac is working well. Liking the improvements.
 
In the Danish Microsoft news page it says it will be available for 365 users from today, but it also says it will be rolled out through October....
 
Arstechnica has a review up http://arstechnica.com/information-...e-old-office-but-now-with-more-collaboration/

Quick quote from their summary
The Good
It's Office! If you like and know Office, you'll feel immediately comfortable and will be able to get down to work in no time at all.

Sway does feel like the first forward-looking Office app for a long time.

Outlook's Clutter feature definitely keeps my inbox tidier.

The Bad
It's... Office. If you hate Office, that's not going to change.

The Ugly
I want gold Outlook back.
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Office 2010 does everything I need - 2016 brings nothing very useful to my party. 🙂
 
saratoga172 said:
Still giving me 2013 on my Office 365 ProPlus account. According to everything I'm seeing I'm supposed to be getting 2016, but I guess I'll check tomorrow.

2016 on my Mac is working well. Liking the improvements.
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ProPlus as well. Still not getting the install as of this post.
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
Why do people love Outlook 2010 so much? I think it's crap compared to 2013.
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Good question! Personally, I have never liked Outlook in any version. It does nothing for me. I guess it helps those with many things to do and people to contact.
 
corkyg said:
Good question! Personally, I have never liked Outlook in any version.
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Same here. I liked the mail client in Netscape Navigator/SeaMonkey before webmail was a thing. Outlook was DOA for me, same with Internet Explorer.
 
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corkyg said:
Good question! Personally, I have never liked Outlook in any version. It does nothing for me. I guess it helps those with many things to do and people to contact.
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For my work, Outlook is awesome! I don't know what I would do without it. At the house, my mainly use Thunderbird, and it is fine for its purpose there.
 
biostud said:
I've never gotten outlook to work with Gmail or hotmail. I use live mail 2012 which does all I need.
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Making folders/labels between Gmail and Outlook is completely funky and I've given up on it.

I have my business email through Office365 and it's great.

I tried Thunderbird but the UI is too fugly for me.
 
saratoga172 said:
Still giving me 2013 on my Office 365 ProPlus account. According to everything I'm seeing I'm supposed to be getting 2016, but I guess I'll check tomorrow.

2016 on my Mac is working well. Liking the improvements.
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Whelp I guess we won't be getting it anytime soon. ProPlus accounts are controlled by our enterprise admins.

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Should we expect Office 2016 for proplus users starting today, or do we have to wait till next month?

Jeremy Chapman (OFFICE IT PRO)
Hi,

Office 365 administrators can start proactively deploying the 2016 apps today. If you are getting automatic updates from Office 365 though, Office 365 ProPlus users will start receiving updates in February 2016. We explain the new update model and release timing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg23LyfSAV8
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If everyone in this thread are just home users, then Office 2007 will continue to function just fine for you. If you're using this at work and have a say over what version you use, then Office 2010 SP2 is a fine program at this point. Office 2013/2016 are only needed if you will make use of whatever new features they have.

So much hate on Office, I don't get it. It's been my experience that most people who trash it don't actually need it and think it's shit when they can't tell what actually changes from version to version. It's a mature program, if you're just using Outlook for simple receive/send email and you use Word to edit your resume and you use Excel to make a simple chart from time to time, then even considering the newest versions of Office should not be high on your list.
 
blurredvision said:
If everyone in this thread are just home users, then Office 2007 will continue to function just fine for you. If you're using this at work and have a say over what version you use, then Office 2010 SP2 is a fine program at this point. Office 2013/2016 are only needed if you will make use of whatever new features they have.

So much hate on Office, I don't get it. It's been my experience that most people who trash it don't actually need it and think it's shit when they can't tell what actually changes from version to version. It's a mature program, if you're just using Outlook for simple receive/send email and you use Word to edit your resume and you use Excel to make a simple chart from time to time, then even considering the newest versions of Office should not be high on your list.
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Office 2010 is a pain in the ass to sync with Office365.
 
I don't like the interface of Office 2013/2016 but I actually love the new Outlook. it synsc emails much faster. Like on Outlook 2010 if I delete an email from my Gmail it isn't instantaneous, it would lag before actually deleting the email. That's about the only real improvement I see in Office other than those features that they list on their whitepapers that I couldn't care less about personally.
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
Whelp I guess we won't be getting it anytime soon. ProPlus accounts are controlled by our enterprise admins.
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Wow that stinks. Thanks for the heads up. I may be able to get my enterprise admin to push the update since I know he'll be wanting to upgrade to it. I'll report back if that's what it takes.
 
saratoga172 said:
Wow that stinks. Thanks for the heads up. I may be able to get my enterprise admin to push the update since I know he'll be wanting to upgrade to it. I'll report back if that's what it takes.
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He will. Currently for enterprise users, Office 2016 is only available for those users that your administrator has deemed "first release" users. Your administrator has the option to classify everybody, nobody or any individual users as such. In the Office 365 console, I believe it's under "Service Settings" -> "Updates". That's off the top of my head.

Once he enables you for that, give it a few minutes (officially says to wait an hour but it worked for one of my users in about 5 minutes) and then login to your Office 365 account. You'll see an option to download the normal 2013 but a new option at the bottom to download 2016.
 
My wife has Office 2013 on her laptop using the same 365 Home subscription that I have but it doesn't auto update when I check for new updates. I had to uninstall her current Office 2013 then run the live installer again for it to get the 2016 version.
 
berryracer said:
My wife has Office 2013 on her laptop using the same 365 Home subscription that I have but it doesn't auto update when I check for new updates. I had to uninstall her current Office 2013 then run the live installer again for it to get the 2016 version.
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Same here, there goes the concept of a "streaming, always live" version of 365. Oh and the stub installer didn't like the Visio 2013 Pro I had installed so I had to uninstall that before getting 2016/365 back on. Bravo.
 
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