Therefore, no wave of new Office – New Technology

       

This week, Microsoft released Office 2016. To be a major product release was decent little fuss. Office dominates despite everything totally on companies and authorities. Why does not the wave, like when Apple releases a new iPhone?

The reason is that the release contains some great innovative features – most are reactions to things that have long since been possible in such Google products. Now it’s possible to do well in office.

Other reasons for the release of products is not perceived as a “big bang” is that Office 2016 released back in July 9 – but only for Mac. The completely bizarre for someone who has been in the business a long time. Moreover, it needs to have Office 365 does not do anything to upgrade – Office 2016 will by itself, as part of the subscription.

It will likely take at least six months before any major shift takes place on the corporate side. The reasons are that besides the tangible business benefits are still many old dependencies to investigate around both Windows 10 and Office 2016. In addition are doubts about Microsoft’s data collection.

When it comes to dependencies are Word and Excel in many places completely integrated in the activities of a variety of templates, scripts, plugins and integrations with other systems. It is not just the upgrade without further notice.

And even though it’s fun with a new version in general it does not work as arguments . There must be a concrete benefit for the users and for the company.

Is there any such in Office 2016? I met with Microsoft’s Swedish product managers in a small café on Södermalm in Stockholm where they were demonstrating all the cool stuff you can do.

Cooperation is the big selling-argument. When you sit with a Word document to be stored in the cloud, and when you mail it to someone he may not be a copy of a file without access to the same file that you have. You can then sit in a meeting, connected via Lync or Skype while making updates. In a sidebar you can see who are currently on their Skype status. You can talk to them and see their faces. Changes that someone else does see in real time.

It all presupposes that you run Office 365 – that is prepared to exploit Microsoft’s cloud capabilities – and besides Word, Excel and more even running Exchange, Outlook, Skype or Lync. There are a number of products which should be in place.

The new Office is also a lot of great help features, machine learning and artificial intelligence, For example, to sort your emails basket. Microsoft also utilizes the smart and personal assistant Cortana – included in Windows 10 – for some features in Office. Cortana is however not so far in the Swedish market.

It is primarily private users who will run Office 2016 to the beginning . However, it is obvious that any company urgently needs to put themselves into the news and how they affect their particular business. Office is still very important for most organizations. n