Office 15 preview announcement notes #SharePoint #SP2010 #MSProject #PS2010 #ProjectServer
Well, just as the rumours predicted, Microsoft has officially announced the Office 15 Preview.
The live webcast announcement has just finished and I took some notes whilst I was watching.
Before I get to the notes, the Office 365 preview is available now to all users to try out:
I’ve just signed up for a preview enterprise account and the preview appears to include:
- Exchange
- SharePoint
- Lync
- Office 15
- Just for showmanship here are the new icons of the Office 15 suite:
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Just as you would expect from an Office 365 preview.
** Update **
On further searching, all the various previews including Project, Microsoft Project Server Online! and Visio is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/officepreview/try-more-products
** Update 2 **
Office Preview Feature Pages:
- Project / Project Online: http://www.microsoft.com/project/en-us/preview/default.aspx
- SharePoint: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/preview/default.aspx
- Office 365 Enterprise: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/office-365-enterprise
- Office 365 Pro Plus: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/office-365-proplus
- Office 365 Small Business Premium: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/office-365-small-business-premium
- Office 365 Home Premium: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/office-365-home-premium
- Visio: http://visio.microsoft.com/en-us/preview/default.aspx
- Word: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/word-2013-preview
- Excel: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/excel-2013-preview
- PowerPoint: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/powerpoint-2013-preview
- OneNote: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/onenote-2013-preview
- Outlook: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/outlook-2013-preview
FAQ Link: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/faq (Includes specifications etc…)
** Update 3 **
IT Pro / On-Premise Downloads + Useful links:
- SharePoint Server 2013: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_121_1_33
- SharePoint Foundation 2013: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30345
- Project Server 2013: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973403
- Project Professional 2013: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973401.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_119_1_33
- Exchange 2013: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973395.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_116_1_33
- Lync Server 2013: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973393.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_118_1_33
- Office Web App Server 2013 (Separate SKU now); http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30358
- Visio 2013: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973399.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_122_1_33
- SharePoint Designer 2013: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30346
- SharePoint 2013 SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30355
- SharePoint 2013 Requirements:
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/Preview/sharepoint-requirements.aspx
- How to install by Eric Harlan:
- What you need to know about 2013 by Andrew Connell:
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2012/07/16/sharepoint-2013-what-you-need-to-know.aspx
** Update 4 **
Discontinued Features
Microsoft Support have posted the following article on discontinued features:
** Update 5 **
Setting up team development environments for SharePoint 2013
** Update 6 **
Useful Links from Jeremy Thake (http://wss.made4the.net/archive/2012/07/16/office-2013-preview-announced-today.aspx)
- Microsoft Office 365 Marketplace (the rumoured App Store for SharePoint is true!!!): http://officepreview.microsoft.com/en-us/store/
** Update 7 **
Training Material
- Microsoft Office 2013: http://officepreview.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspx
- Ignite Training Material: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30361&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all
- SharePoint 2013 Training Videos: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/technet/en-us/office/media/video/video.html?cid=stc&from=mscomSTC
- How to build Apps + Samples: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/apps
Announcement Notes:
Now on to my notes taken during the keynote announcement and more blog posts will follow as I try things out the Customer Preview version:
Office 365
- new website capabilities
- new social capabilities
- new office web access with inline preview
- mentions of yammer for a more social enterprise including future social connectors
- annotation built in to Microsoft Office
PowerPoint
- full touch interface
- pinch and zoom
- hide / show ribbon including pin
- new animation (1 of many) – “drape”
Presentation editing updates
- finger swipe or tap to switch slides
- pinch and zoom available
- inking used for annotation
Presentation mode updated
- shows next slide (very useful addition)
- slide notes (as standard)
- metro style
- clock / timer still present
Outlook
- same ribbon capability
- full touch
- quick actions tab on right for easy touch based control
- inline reply, no more multiple pop-ups required
Peek functionality
- hover over calendar or tasks for a window to appear showing current calendar or todays tasks
- Double click on the section to open calendar or tasks
Office developer model (Codename: Agave)
Outlook used as the example but it is available across the suite of Office applications.
can be hosted anywhere (Azure, Amazon and other web services for example)
Example shown:
- Bing maps and suggested appointments – scans current email and shows maps or appointment suggestions
OneNote
- updated to metro style
- full touch, slide between notebooks
- ink enabled
- radial menu enables style changes easily with touch (font size like a spinometer)
- integrated camera support in windows 8 (full touch cropping)
Word
- metro ui
- office live sign in
- shared settings
- uses skydrive to save and share templates between devices
- by default it will store it in the cloud
- live layout with touch enabled (Allows you to drag pictures around the screen for positioning)
Reading mode
- inverse colours for reading modes
- presence within comments
- collapse and expand sections
Cloud integration
- embed youtube clips into word now
- flickr and other picture services integrated
- share document capability – skydrive, social networks, publish to blog
- Shared device capability (pick up where you left off – remembers exact document position no matter the device)
- settings and documents sync’d via sky drive
- windows mobile 7.5 and 8 works the same way
SharePoint
Social
- follow documents, sites, tags and people
- suggestions on what you should follow
- activity feed
- like capability
- document previews (Office web apps)
- inline video playback (including youtube)
- tag creation with #tags
- people suggestions as you type
- news feed and presence + pictures inline
- feed appears in sharepoint, office and includes facebook, twitter, yammer via social connectors (coming soon i’d expect)
Skype
- presence built into office just like lync
Excel
flash fill – assumes formulas on the fly
- based on typing it analyses the columns in the sheet and suggests what you are trying to do
- chart suggestions intelligent based on the data in the sheet
Windows 8 scales
- perceptive pixel (company recently bought by Microsoft)
- 80+ inch screen with multi touch
Lync
- touch aware also
- drag users to tele or video conferences
- live meeting functionality built in with touch capability
- open one note from lync and meeting details are automatically brought in.
- Using windows 8 you can pin it for side by side conferencing
- NB: All the above shown on the perceptive pixel screen
- Now for all those excited about the announcement, what are you doing reading this? Go get on the preview and started learning!
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