Microsoft is rebranding Office 365 to Microsoft 365 and offering new personal and family plans. The company is also broadening its Slack competitor, Microsoft Teams, to general consumers.
It’s understandable why developers use the subscription model, but it’s hard to make consumers commit when the value of the subscription hasn’t been proven.
Microsoft is making a Office 365 subscription more valuable beginning on Oct. 2. On that date, it’s removing device install limits and more.
Microsoft on Thursday announced the release of Office 2016 for Mac. This marks the first major Mac release of the popular software suite since Office 2011, and it’s now available for download in 140 countries, for Office 365 subscribers.
“Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac,” said Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate VP of Office Client Applications and Services. It includes new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, as well as a number of improvements.
Building upon its already enormous library of iOS software, Microsoft on Tuesday released ‘Office Delve’ for iPhone. The app serves as a mobile client to Microsoft’s Office Delve service, which connects Office users to relevant people and documents.
The official tagline of the iPhone app is “find and discover documents through people you work with.” Microsoft says the app will allow you to see what you and your colleagues are working on across Office 365 and suggest relevant documents to you.
If you were sitting on the fence of subscribing to Office 365 just to gain editing functionality in Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for the iPad, Microsoft has an offer that will knock your socks off.
All Office 365 subscribers now get unlimited OneDrive storage with their service, the team announced Monday.
Yup, storage limits just became a thing of the past.
And with the recently reduced monthly subscriptions now available as In-App Purchases in Office for iPad, you’ll have unlimited OneDrive space for your photos, videos and other documents for as low as seven bucks per month. Again, that’s unlimited OneDrive storage and Office from $7 per month.
