Finally Microsoft has released a free preview of its upcoming Office suite i.e. Office 2016 to public but there are a few things to note.
At the moment this free Office 2016 preview can only be downloaded and installed using Office 365 ProPlus subscription. So if you have a subscription, you can enjoy the free preview otherwise you'll need to wait for some time until Microsoft releases the free preview to all.
The Office 365 ProPlus subscription is required to download this preview because Microsoft has released the preview to business, commercial customers, IT pros and developers only. That's why Microsoft is calling this preview as "IT Pro and Developer Preview of Office 2016 for Windows desktop".
Since its just an early preview version, it doesn't contain all the features which will be available in the final version of Office 2016. But Microsoft will keep adding new features to this preview version through monthly updates. Also this preview will not run side-by-side with any previous installed version of Office.
Now let's talk about the new features of Office 2016!
Microsoft at Office blog has provided a list of new features and functionality which you'll see in Office 2016 preview:
Accessibility:
- Improvement in keyboard accessibility for high-value Excel features like PivotTables and Slicers
- Fixed readability issues in Outlook
- Addition of a new dark theme (that will really make all people happy [link])
Outlook:
Following improvements have been made to Outlook 2016:
- RPC-based sync replaced by new MAPI-HTTP protocol to support Exchange/Outlook connectivity
- Use of foreground network calls eliminated to make Outlook more responsive on unreliable networks
- Support for multi-factor authentication through integration with Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)
- Improvements in email delivery performance such as downloading messages, displaying message list and showing new emails after resuming from hibernation
- New settings to better manage disk storage by only retaining 1, 3, 7, 14 or 30 days of mail on the device
- Improvements in reliability, performance and usability of Outlook search
- Integration of FAST-based search engine in Exchange
Click-to-Run deployment:
Office 365 subscribers will get new deployment features as following:
- Better network traffic management with the help of new Background Intelligence Transfer Service (BITS)
- Better integration with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to allow admins to efficiently download and distribute monthly Office updates
- New options to manage the frequency of feature updates and bug fixes download
- Simplified activation management to allow admins to manage device activations across users
Data Loss Protection (DLP):
In past DLP feature was available in Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint only. Now the same feature has been implemented in Word, Excel and PowerPoint programs of Office 2016. With the help of DLP, you can create, manage and enforce polices for content authoring and document sharing as a part of user restrictions.
Information Rights Management (IRM):
Implementation of IRM protection in Visio files to enable both online and offline protection of Visio diagrams.
If you have Office 365 ProPlus subscription, you can download and install Office 2016 preview using following link:
Download Office 2016 Preview for IT Pro and Developers
At the above mentioned link, first you'll need to register for Office 2016 preview by providing some general information such as name, company name, email ID, etc. After registering, you'll get access to Office 2016 preview download page where you'll need to download a small script which will allow you to install Office 2016 preview version.
Office 2016 Preview is available in following languages: English, Arabic, Brazilian (Portuguese), Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Korean. More languages will be supported in future releases.
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