Microsoft Office 2019

2018: Emergence in a public access

On September 24, 2018 the company Microsoft released a packet of office applications of Office 2019 for computers on operating systems Windows and macOS.

The producer notes that innovations in Office 2019 became a part of the long list of new features which were added to the cloud Office 365 ProPlus set for three previous years.

PowerPoint 2019 interface

For example, in the Word text editor there was a focusing mode which leaves on the screen all the most important, and the same mode in the Outlook e-mail client transfers the least important letters aside. In PowerPoint it is possible to create the "cinema" presentations thanks to new effects, export of video in format 4K and an opportunity to insert 3D models and images of the SVG format. In a spreadsheet processor of Excel new charts, formulas and other functions for data analysis are added.

Excel 2019 interface

It was not also without artificial intelligence. Among such functions — Ideas. It accompanies the user in the course of work with the document and provides useful hints. So, in PowerPoint the technology recommends design, a design and images, in Excel — will recognize trends, offers tables and identifies statistical emissions in data.

The Excel program had new opportunities of image understanding by means of which it is possible to transform, in particular, the tables drawn on papers to electronic.

Since September 24, 2018, Office 2019 is available to owners of corporate licenses. Other users will be able to begin work with a product within several weeks. More exact terms are not specified.

Office 2019 only on Windows 10 can set Windows users — "seven" and "eight" are not supported. In a case from server OS only Windows Server 2019 is supported.^[1]

2017: Announcement

On September 26, 2017 the presentation of the Microsoft Office 2019 software package took place. Within the announcement the little became known of a product.

Microsoft Office 2019 will include usual "office" applications, including client versions of Word applications, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and also server Exchange, SharePoint and Skype for Business.

Microsoft Office 2019 will leave in the second half of 2018

Microsoft reported that the Office 2019 complex is focused on the companies which are not using a subscription to an online service of Microsoft Office 365. Earlier in the company said that since October, 2020 users of local versions of Office should be connected to Office 365 services.

The updated Office will receive the improved functions for the companies including connected with information security, management of IT systems, voice functions and convenience of work. There will be improved opportunities for work with a digital feather, including sensitivity to clicking force, recognition of effects of an inclination and repetition.

In Excel there will be new formulas and charts for data analysis, and functions of change (Morph) and scaling (Zoom) of animation which will allow to make the presentations more visual will be added to PowerPoint.

At the end of September, 2017 Microsoft announced the new tool for Excel which automatically collects the most interesting data from the table and visualizes them. It is called Insights and the instrument of visualization and data analysis of Power BI is based on the same technology, as.

Office 2019 will become valuable updating for clients to whom it seems that they need to save access to some or all the applications and servers, and we are going to share release details in the coming months — the general project manager of Office  Jared Spataro in the official blog of a product reported.

Microsoft planned an exit of Office 2019 to the second half of 2018. More exact terms of release are not called.^[2]

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