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Microsoft Office is undoubtedly the most popular productivity suite available in the market. Over the last few years, Office has evolved so much that it is difficult to recognize at first glance. Microsoft has been adding many new features and the cloud based service to make Office even more useful for its customers. This has necessitated a change also in the way private and business owners use this productivity suite. However, despite all the changes, one thing remains the same and that is the ever solid Microsoft Office support for the customers.

New features make Office a much more useful tool

New features like OneNote and Teams make Microsoft Office a collection of a number of applications with new and exciting features. Backed by the latest cloud services, these features continue to evolve into powerful and more useful tools for workers in offices. Microsoft chose to call OneNote Office 15 for a long time and eventually labeled it as Microsoft 365.

Microsoft announced many new features afterwards. These included Sway, Yammer, and finally Office Graph. The last of these was meant to allow users to make PowerPoint presentations on their computers using their smartphones. The company also acquired Clutter, Sunrise, and Accompli, the features that helped in boosting the already efficient online Microsoft Office support for the customers.

Massive increase in the number of subscribers

The addition of new features to Microsoft Office saw a massive jump in the number of subscribers. From a figure of 1 million, this number jumped to 2 million by the time Microsoft introduced Office 365 in 2013. Many of these subscribers made the most of the free Skype minutes that were given to them for free by the company. SkyDrive Storage was still not being used by all these subscribers. But so impressive was the business version that it did not take long for Microsoft to sign contracts with companies like government of San Jose, government of New York, and British Airways. The list was much bigger with dozens of financial services companies joining the bandwagon. Microsoft got so much business that it needed to increase its servers by nearly 6 times.

No configuration required by customers

There was tremendous appeal for the customers in the new Microsoft product as they were spared the hard work required in configuring and running features like SharePoint and Exchange. With additional servers working for Microsoft, customers could easily use all the new features and also configured in just the way they wanted. It was like buying a new car rather than buying all the parts and then assembling them on the site.

With Office 2016, Excel users got 6 new charts. They also got an app called GigJam that was meant to aid in basic scheduling. Users of Mac received many new updates to make Office a more efficient and productive productivity suit for them. For those who have to make workflows while creating web or mobile apps, Microsoft added features like Power Apps and Flow.

Office has changed drastically even for home users and small companies employing just a few employees. 

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