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The new version of Office 2016 for Windows desktops is available today. It is the full-featured set of Office apps, best suited for PC’s with a keyboard and mouse.

For Office 365 Personal and Home users, Office 2016 apps are available via the Office.com portal. Customers with Volume Licensing agreements will be able to download the new version of Office starting from October 1 via the Volume Licensing Servcice Center (VLSC).

New Features

These are just a few new features in Office 2016:

• Real Time Presence in Word
• Simplified File Sharing
• Insights (powered by Bing)
• Version History improvements
• Improved grammar checker
• Power Pivot improvements

With this release comes the Data Loss Prevention, additional document coauthoring capabilities, new navigation support, files syncing to OneDrive, integration with Power BI, and more.

Updates

The updating scheme is similiar to the one available for Windows 10. Office 365 ProPlus customers will recieve the Current Branch scheme with new feature releases and security updates on a monthly basis. The other model is called Current Branch for Business which will offer updates every four months, with monthly security updates.

We present a new solution on the market designed for a better communication and collaboration experience – Yealink IP phones that help you to increase your organization’s productivity, with cost-effective models suitable for organizations of any size.

Yealink T48G and T22P Lync-Enabled IP phones are optimized for Microsoft’s Communications Technologies. They are compatible with Lync 2010 or 2013, and they also work with Skype for Business.

The T22P is a cost-effective IP business phone with an intuitive user interface and HD audio for excellent voice quality. We recommend it for basic usage scenarios in office environments.

Extend your communication experience with the T48G, a Gigabit IP phone with a 7-inch scratch-resistant color touch screen and with excellent Yealink Optima HD sound quality, which gives you an amazing audio experience.

Features:

• Familiar User Experience
• Phone functions for every employee: Boss/Admin, Phone Lock
• Switching between Lync and SIP functional modes

We provide consulting related to Yealink devices and Microsoft Lync / Skype for Business system integration. If you are interested in buying and implementing, feel free to contact us.

The presentation will be about Microsoft Cloud services with a focus on Virtual Machines with Windows Server or Linux. It will cover essential concepts and tools for people who are new to Azure.

“If deploying an application requires a developer’s involvement, it’s not IaaS”

Take your laptop, if you have one, and activate a trial subscription for Azure, so you can join the global compute pool for breast cancer research.  (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/)

Date and time: April 25^th, 2015

Location: Polytechnic of Zagreb, Konavoska 2

Price: Free

Register for the event via the link below:

Agenda:

For the first time, Hrvoje Kusulja will be presenting on the Microsoft NetWork conference. It is the fifth edition of this event, and this year it will be held in Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The presentation will be about the possibilities of Office 365 Power BI solutions and their integration with on-premises SQL databases, including Microsoft SQL Server and other database engines like MySQL and IBM DB2.

It is a very useful presentation to those who have existing databases on which they’d like to apply various Business Intelligence scenarios.

Date and time: April 29^th, 2015

Location: Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Register for the conference via the link below:

About Hrvoje:

System engineer by profession. Information Technologies Graduate from Polytechnic of Zagreb; worked in parallel in his own company on system engineering tasks such as IBM Enterprise Systems, Microsoft solutions – Windows Server, Exchange, System Center, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Office 365, Azure Cloud solutions, etc. Earned numerous Microsoft and IBM certifications, as well as various awards and honors from his high school and faculty. Mostly devoted to Cloud technologies and constantly perfecting himself in this field.

Hrvoje Kusulja, 3 PRO’s Chief Operating Officer, became a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Office 365. It is an award for prominent, independent community leaders who share their technical expertise related to Microsoft, and it is given for contributions over the previous year – especially for sharing knowledge within the technical community that utilizes Microsoft technologies.