[WinPartners] Office 2016 ProPlus

[Richard Edelson]

Thanks. 365 also does rolling deployments of new features among tenants so it's a bit of a moving target. One thing to note, the 365 version uses your 365 account to maintain activation and is limited to five devices per account. The volume license version uses MIT's KMS servers for licensing and does not impose a limit.

Richard


On Sep 23, 2015, at 11:28 PM, Teddy Thomas <tthoma24 at mit.edu<mailto:tthoma24 at mit.edu>> wrote:

I just tried to download through MIT's Office 365 and I'm still getting Office 2013 :( According to something I found on the Microsoft website, it appears Office 365 for Education won't be seeing it till Q1 2016: https://community.office365.com/en-us/w/officeapps/office-2016-problems-and-solutions-and-frequently-asked-questions

(What's interesting is that I was able to successfully install the preview several months back on a VM and activate off of MIT's O365 by signing in... oh well)

It does, however, look like MIT could opt into a faster update branch Microsoft is labeling "First Release" to allow for pilot users to get it ahead of their business release schedule: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt455210.aspx#BKMK_FRCBB. I wonder if that's something we'd be interested in, but I only skimmed the article so am unsure that would be feasible to do...

-Teddy

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Richard Edelson <redelson at mit.edu<mailto:redelson at mit.edu>> wrote:
You can get it from Office 365 now, otherwise Microsoft is making the volume license version available starting October 1st and we will have it available within a few days of that.

Richard



> On Sep 23, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Mike Hobbs <mhobbs at mtl.mit.edu<mailto:mhobbs at mtl.mit.edu>> wrote:
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> Agreed.  My department would love to get 2016 for both PC and Mac.
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> mike
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>> On 09/23/2015 10:02 AM, Brandon Mills wrote:
>> Does IS&T have access to Office 2016 ProPlus yet? If so, could we have beta access to it?
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