Microsoft Announces Office 2019 Will Release Next Year

Microsoft has announced that Office 2019 will be released sometime in the second half next year. Previews will ship in mid-2018. It will include Word, Excel and Powerpoint, as well as servers such as Skype for Business and Exchange. Some of the new features in Office 2019 that it highlights are new formulas and charts for Excel, inking features that are both new and improved and visual animation for presentations. Additionally, Office 2019 will focus on IT manageability, usability, voice and security for server updates. Microsoft will release more information about Office 2019 over the next few months. Thoughts ?

Microsoft Releases Public Beta Of Office 2016 For Mac

Microsoft has released the public beta of Office 2016 for Mac on the Microsoft Office webpage, most notably bringing a redesign and Retina support to the suite of apps. The beta can be downloaded for free and provides an alternative to Apple’s iWork suite. The beta is a 2.5GB download and takes close to 6GB of your hard drive space after it installs. A subscription to Office 365 costs $10 per month, or $100 per year and gives you the right to download Office software to up to five computers. It’s a pricing model that Microsoft has used for Office for iPad. Right now the beta doesn’t require a subscription. Microsoft says the public version of Office for Mac 2016 will be released in the second half of 2015. You can download the beta from Microsoft’s website. It’s supported only on the latest version of Mac OS X Yosemite.