Microsoft brings new updates to Office 365

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Microsoft Office 365 has changed the way businesses operate by unlocking social and mobility scenarios enabling them to take advantage of the cloud, said the company.

Office 365 Personal was recently added to complement the existing bouquet comprising Office 365 Home Premium, Office 365 University and Office 365 for businesses, and Office for iPad, aiding mobile scenarios. 

Ramkumar Pichai, GM - Microsoft office division, microsoft India, said, "We are pleased with the adoption of Office 365 amongst businesses in India and globally, which reinforces our cloud and mobile leadership. Microsoft is focused on delivering the cloud for everyone, on every device. The future lies in people focused cloud productivity that - enables individuals and organizations to achieve more with the devices and services that people love the most."

Updated capabilities of Office 365

Microsoft is bringing new personalized experiences that integrate social capabilities throughout Office 365.

Powering these new user experiences is the Office Graph, a new Office 365 intelligence fabric that remains unseen to the user but is constantly analyzing content, interactions and activity streams and mapping the relationships using machine learning to  onnect and surface the most relevant content to each user. These new experiences include the following:

• Groups is a new feature unifying people, conversations, calendars, emails and files across the Office 365 suite, enabling a seamless collaboration experience across applications.

• Microsoft is bringing the power of social collaboration and conversations to everyone by offering Inline Social experiences throughout Office 365. It has the ability to have social conversations inside documents stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

• Office 365 Video Portal- It has been developed to support upload, storage and discovery of videos in a secure manner. Businesses will be able to categorize videos into channels for specific business needs and stream them on mobile devices, with all of the video compression, optimization and rendering work done by Office 365.