This week on AppleInsider: Thicker iPhones, new iOS and OS X betas, Office for Mac & more

An active news week saw the first public betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, new details about next-generation iPhones, and the release of Office 2016 for Mac.

Roger Fingas 10 years ago 0

Microsoft releases all-new Office 2016 for Mac to Office 365 subscribers

Microsoft on Thursday announced that Office 2016 for Mac — a totally revamped version of its venerable productivity suite — is now available to any Mac user with an Office 365 subscription.

AppleInsider Staff 10 years ago 43

Microsoft inadvertently reveals 'Flow by Outlook' chat app for iPhone

Microsoft appears to be developing a streamlined chat and email application for iPhones called Flow by Outlook, a leaked download webpage marked "Microsoft Confidential" revealed on Wednesday.

Roger Fingas 11 years ago 16

PowerPoint & TripIt update with Apple Watch functions, Excel for iPhone gets comments

Microsoft on Tuesday updated the iOS version of PowerPoint with new Apple Watch features, simultaneously releasing more minor updates for two other apps in the iOS Office suite, Word and Excel. Watch features have also been implemented in TripIt's popular travel itinerary app.

Roger Fingas 11 years ago 0

Microsoft updates Office 2016 for Mac Preview, intros new iPhone apps for Office 365

Microsoft on Wednesday released an updated version of the Office 2016 for Mac Preview, cleaning up bug and performance problems while adding new features, as the company also simultaneously launched two new Office 365 apps for the iPhone, Office Delve and Office 365 Video.

Roger Fingas 11 years ago 26

First look: Microsoft's all-new Office 2016 for Mac public preview

Half a decade after Microsoft's last major update to Office for Mac, the venerable productivity suite returns anew with a Retina redesign, a modern codebase, and a host of new features — and it's available today as a public preview. AppleInsider was given early access to the new apps and brings you a close-up view of Redmond's latest.

Sam Oliver 11 years ago 73

Microsoft adds iCloud save support to its Office suite for iOS

Users of Microsoft's mobile productivity suite for iOS have new storage and synchronization options for documents, following an update to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that adds support for Apple's iCloud.

Sam Oliver 11 years ago 18

Microsoft Outlook debuts as free download for iPhone, iPad

Microsoft on Thursday released its long-awaited Outlook client for iOS, giving both iPhone and iPad owners the ability to access a unified view of email calendar, contacts, and attachments.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 55

Microsoft's own Office apps much better on iPhone than Windows Phone 8

In keeping with the growing importance of Apple's iOS platform, Microsoft's new Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for iPhone are now far superior than those Microsoft offers for its own Windows Phone 8 platform.

Daniel Eran Dilger 11 years ago 52

Microsoft Office for iOS overhauled to allow free creating & editing of documents without subscription

Dedicated versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, comprising the Microsoft Office suite, are now available for iPhone, based on a unified codebase with their iPad counterparts, and also offering both iPhone and iPad users the ability to create and edit documents for free without an Office 365 subscription.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 35

Microsoft says public beta of new Office for Mac coming in first half of 2015

In releasing a new version of Outlook for Mac on Friday, Microsoft also revealed will launch an update to its Office suite for Mac next year, allowing users to test it in the first half of 2015 before a launch sometime in the second half of the year.

Sam Oliver 11 years ago 48

Rumor: Office for Mac to get Retina redesign, feature parity with Windows in Q1 2015

Microsoft is set to release an all-new version of Office for Mac in the first quarter of 2015, documents revealed on Tuesday suggest, modernizing the Mac version of the popular software suite and bringing it to feature parity with its Windows counterpart.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 32

Office for iPad update adds support for third-party fonts, ability to send as PDF

Microsoft's Office for iPad suite, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint, was given a significant update on Thursday, giving users the ability to utilize third-party fonts in Word, and the option to export files as PDFs in all three programs, among other new additions.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 13

Microsoft updates OneNote for iOS and Mac with OneDrive access, file insertion, more

Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out a major update to its Apple-centric OneNote product line, adding new features like access to notes stored in OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online, inserting files and note reorganization and sharing.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 31

Microsoft's Office for iPad apps notch 27M downloads in 46 days

After a highly anticipated launch in late March, Microsoft's Office for iPad suite of productivity apps is still going strong in the iOS App Store after having accumulated some 27 million downloads as of Monday.

AppleInsider Staff 12 years ago 41

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