Since the early 1990s, Microsoft Office has revolutionized, changed, and dominated office spaces and workplaces around the world. Today, with the new Microsoft Office 2016, they’re changing the game…again.
Microsoft Office 2016 will offer Office’s 1.2 billion users an offer they can’t refuse: cloud-based service. But despite the new Office cloud, this new updated version will run and look just like it always had. New features include a ‘share’ button, new file sharing field, an email window to share that file, and an inclusive list of people who can work on that file. However, this can only be done through Microsoft cloud service One Drive. A lot of offices have meetings through Skype these days. Through this new file sharing style, a pop-up occurs telling you about Skype and other ways to contact the person. It may be a subtle way to push Skype on us, but it’s effective. Multiple people can work on these files and use these tools at once (sounds like Google Docs, doesn’t it?). Even edits can appear on the app. Microsoft Office is available on Windows and Mac. The reasoning of this software price is debatable. Microsoft Office 2016 will cost you $6.99 a month through Office 365. Or you can pay $149 for the student version or $229 for the business version.
For a business, $229 may bot seem like much. But for a struggling student, $149 seems like a lot. But I noticed Microsoft Office 2016 are using a lot of tactics Google Docs already use. Is this their way of competing with them? Then there are the cloud and file sharing features. While the Skype option would work for conferences, when someone is out of the country, would the rest of the office embrace this file sharing? At best, Office 2016 would work if a handful of workers are sharing a super secretive project. Other than that, I don’t think the new Microsoft Office offering too much that’s worth $229. Would you make the upgrade?