{"id":51164,"date":"2020-07-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2667225"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:00:00","slug":"this-is-what-next-years-microsoft-365-office-apps-could-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/22\/this-is-what-next-years-microsoft-365-office-apps-could-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what next year\u2019s Microsoft 365 office apps could look like"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft has revealed what it’s thinking about for upcoming iterations of Microsoft 365 and its Office apps, combining a flexible ribbon and a more muted color scheme with adaptive commands and a greater emphasis on artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n

In a blog post<\/a> on Tuesday, the chief designer of Office 365, Jon Friedman, said that some of the changes were on the table, while others were simply exploratory. Friedman didn’t provide a timeline for the changes beyond a “year or two,” but it’s likely that this will be another wholesale update of the Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) suite.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has continually updated Office over time—and it’s had to, as it’s asking customers to spend about $70 per year just for a personal license to what’s now called Microsoft 365<\/a>. In 2018, the new innovation was Microsoft Search, the search box<\/a> that lives at the top of apps like Outlook and SharePoint. Last year, Microsoft showed off Fluid Framework<\/a>, a way to turn all Office documents into “living” documents that could be constantly updated. This year, Microsoft decided to open-source the technology<\/a>, but explained that one way Fluid would work would be to embed tables, charts, and task lists into Outlook for the web, so that sales numbers, project tasks, and research reports are always up to date.<\/p>\n

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