[WinPartners] Office 2016 ProPlus

[Teddy Thomas]

[cross-posting to MacPartners]

Mike-

I should also note that my prior comments are only with regard to Office
2016 ProPlus for Windows; Office 2016 for Mac is available now for download
through MIT's Office 365, as it was released back in July to Office 365
customers. I've been using it for a couple of months and have been mostly
satisfied.

-Teddy

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Richard Edelson <redelson at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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> 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> 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> wrote:
>> >
>> > Agreed.  My department would love to get 2016 for both PC and Mac.
>> >
>> > mike
>> >
>> >
>> >> 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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