And Enterprise Data Protection, a security feature that Microsoft has promised for Windows 10, also will be coming for Office 2016 for Windows in early 2016, and the Office Mobile apps later this year, company officials said. Built-in coauthoring for the other Office 2016 apps beyond Word is also still in the works. The promised new sync clients for Windows and Mac are due later this year. Microsoft is still working on improving and syncing its OneDrive online-storage service. Users who subscribe via Office 365 consumer and/or business plans which include rights to the Office apps also get will get additional, supplemental services and features, including Microsoft's Sway digital-storytelling app/service new Office 365 Groups functionality and more.Īs is the case with Windows 10, Microsoft is planning to fill out some of the partially baked Office 2016 features in the suite with regular updates in the coming months. The latest version of Microsoft Office has a ton of changes under the covers, most of them aimed at playing catch-up to the collaborative strengths of Google Apps.
