Spark the future.

May 4 – 8, 2015Chicago, IL

Meet the new Outlook for Mac 2016Sunder Raman

BRK2204

Office for MacHistory and Releases

Outlook for Mac 2016Key InvestmentsUpdates since Office 365 RTWDemos

Agenda

History of Office for Mac

1977

Word 1.0

1984 1985 1987 1989

1998Entourag

e

2000

2001 2004 2008

2011 2015

1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

Multi-plan

OfficePowerPoint 1.0

Excel 1.0

Office 2011

Office 2001

Office 98

Office 2004

Office XOffice 2008

Office for Mac 2016

Apple Basic

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

2013 2014 2015

TAP & Private Beta

Office 365 RTW

Outlook for Mac Releases

SP32011:

Outlook for Mac 2016:

Every other month

Regular updates

Office Preview

Outlook for Mac 2016

Outlook for Mac Key Investments

Great with Office 365

ModernizationPerformance

and Reliability

Pre-emptive threading model using Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)

Replaces cooperative threading model from Outlook 2011 Reduce hangs/beachball Overall app acts and feels more fluid, responsive

SQLite databaseReplaces custom database from Outlook 2011 Reliable, able to recover from error without user action Make “rebuild” a thing of the past

Performance and Reliability

Modern Outlook UXUpdated look and feel for familiarity across platforms Updated QAT, Ribbon, Module & Status Bar Improved Message List with Preview & Triage actions Improved signatures UX

Improved accessibilityKeyboard access and VoiceOver support

New mail notifications in Notification CenterModern Cocoa UX (Carbon free)

Modernization

Online archive supportMaster Category List (MCL)Exchange Web Services (EWS) improvements

Push mail support and sync performance

App for Office integrationHTML5 add-ons to extend Outlook capabilities

Great with Office 365

Updates since O365 RTW

Ship high quality monthly updates Features + Stability Ongoing for product lifecycle

POST RTW GOALS

UpdatesMonth Updates KB

December Calendar ColorAlt TextImproved IRM, Delegation

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3025088/

January Password prompt issue, LDAP account import etc. and stability

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3032066/

March (Preview)

Side by side calendarsTime zone improvement

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3038443/

April Networking improvement for Exchange accountsPropose new time

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3048768/

Office 365 subscriptionhttp://office.comConsumer and Commercial

Office Previewhttp://products.office.com/en-US/mac/mac-previewFree trial

Getting Outlook

Demo

Looking ahead

Service

Outlook will be first

class Office 365 and

Outlook.com service

client.

Enterprise

Deliver business

user and IT value.

Features

Continue

implementing

high-demand

features already

available in

Windows Outlook

Platform

appropriate

features

balanced as well.

New areas of

investment

On-premise serverExchange 2010 SP2 or laterOffice 365 subscription is used for activation only

OSYosemite 10.10+

Deployment and OS Requirements

O365 Communitieshttp://community.office365.com/en-us/f/153.aspx

Answershttp://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac

User Voicehttp://outlook.uservoice.com

Twitter‘Outlook for Mac’

Resources

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