Like the Windows Insider program, the Office Insider program is an ongoing preview program for Office 365 subscribers (both Windows and Mac), providing early access to the latest Office features. It's open to anyone who has an Office 365 subscription (administrators need to enable First Release on business accounts before business users can install the Insider Builds). If you want to file bug reports, you'll need to 'upgrade' to an Insider build. Then you can go to File, Support, Contact Support.
I highly recommend doing this if you feel a behavior is a bug. Monthly Channel (Targeted) is the original Insider program. Users in this ring will receive an update about a week before the official production release each month, and then the official production release when it goes out (2 updates per month). These two are generally very close in terms of features and fixes.
Outlook for Mac now supports Google Calendar and Contacts in Insider Slow 04:42 PM Support for Google Calendar and Contact has been available in Insider Fast for several months now. Microsoft is bringing enhanced support for Google Calendar and Contacts to Office 2016 for Mac. Mac users could get access to their Google email, but nothing else. Office Insider.
Office Insider is a new level that delivers weekly updates from the development branch. There will be features available to users in the Insider ring that won't be available to Monthly Channel (Targeted) or Production. Because this build is from the development branch, these users always be a version ahead of the official production release. You can check to see which update channel you are currently using in File, Office Account (or Account in Word or Excel). The update channel is listed below the suite name and the version number. Join Office 2016 for Windows Insider If you'd like to join the Office Insider program and have a consumer subscription (Home, Personal, or University subscription) go to the Additional Install Options page of My Account and choose an Insider option from the Version drop-down menu.
Office 365 business and enterprise users get the Insider Build through program. To switch from Insider Slow to Insider Fast, you'll need to set the following registry value: HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Microsoft office 16.0 common officeupdate String: updatebranch Value: InsiderFast Don't want to edit the registry? Download and run a prepared.reg file.
(Right click on the link and choose Save link.) Microsoft is changing the channel names (again!). Below are the valid values for UpdateBranch. At this time, either the old and new updatenames will work.
Apple's software has been slipping in recent years, pioneering tech blogger Walt Mossberg argues in a piece published on Wednesday. Mossberg spent the most time slamming the built-in Mail app on the iPhone, a critical piece of software for many users.
The default mail app is 'slow and unreliable,' according to Mossberg, and making things worse, it doesn't seem to want to play nicely with Gmail, one of the most popular email services in the world with over. In my experience, Mossberg is right: The built-in mail client on the iPhone has been lacking for a while. Mossberg wrote: Apple claims this is an issue beyond its control, or the control of any other email app vendor, because Gmail uses nonstandard technology that gives a speed advantage to the search giant's own apps and sites. (Google has told me otherwise in the past.) Apple's excuse reveals its anxiety over a growing focus for the company:. This is an area where Apple trails its big competitors: Google still owns maps, Facebook Messenger regularly tops the App Store charts, and Spotify to gain new subscribers even as Apple pushes its music-subscription service. For what it's worth, I don't buy it. I use Microsoft Outlook on the iPhone, and it works perfectly fine with Gmail. Outlook is snappy and modern, complete with threaded messaging, email snoozing, and sophisticated filtering that ensures that what lands in my inbox is an actual message from another human.
It's what I want from Apple's built-in app. And I'm not the only person who thinks Outlook is a significantly better email client than Apple's., as do several other writers here and at our sister publication,. For years, Apple was happy to provide the best physical computer or phone for users to access services from internet-focused companies like Google. But as the company looks for new growth avenues as iPhone and Mac sales stall, it's realizing that it needs to catch up — which is why it's building in the next two years. CEO Tim Cook is fond of saying that there are certain achievements that can pull off, thanks to its integration of hardware, software, and services. But increasingly, competitors like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon can do all three as well, and they have a decisive advantage over Apple when it comes to services. Catching up will be a bigger challenge than fixing a buggy Mail app.
Apple's software has been slipping in recent years, pioneering tech blogger Walt Mossberg argues in a piece published in the Verge on Wednesday. Mossberg spent the most time slamming the built-in Mail app on the iPhone, a critical piece of software for many users. The default mail app is 'slow and unreliable,' according to Mossberg, and making things worse, it doesn't seem to want to play nicely with Gmail, one of the most popular email services in the world with over 1 billion users. In my experience, Mossberg is right: The built-in mail client on the iPhone has been lacking for a while. Mossberg wrote: Apple claims this is an issue beyond its control, or the control of any other email app vendor, because Gmail uses nonstandard technology that gives a speed advantage to the search giant's own apps and sites.
(Google has told me otherwise in the past.) Apple's excuse reveals its anxiety over a growing focus for the company: online services. This is an area where Apple trails its big competitors: Google still owns maps, Facebook Messenger regularly tops the App Store charts, and Spotify continues to gain new subscribers even as Apple pushes its music-subscription service. For what it's worth, I don't buy it.
I use Microsoft Outlook on the iPhone, and it works perfectly fine with Gmail. Outlook is snappy and modern, complete with threaded messaging, email snoozing, and sophisticated filtering that ensures that what lands in my inbox is an actual message from another human. It's what I want from Apple's built-in app.
And I'm not the only person who thinks Outlook is a significantly better email client than Apple's. Business Insider's Stephen Tweedie agrees, as do several other writers here and at our sister publication, Tech Insider. For years, Apple was happy to provide the best physical computer or phone for users to access services from internet-focused companies like Google.
But as the company looks for new growth avenues as iPhone and Mac sales stall, it's realizing that it needs to catch up — which is why it's building three new data centers in the next two years. CEO Tim Cook is fond of saying that there are certain achievements that only Apple can pull off, thanks to its integration of hardware, software, and services. But increasingly, competitors like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon can do all three as well, and they have a decisive advantage over Apple when it comes to services. Catching up will be a bigger challenge than fixing a buggy Mail app.
Apple's software has been slipping in recent years, pioneering tech blogger Walt Mossberg argues in a piece published in the Verge on Wednesday. Mossberg spent the most time slamming the built-in Mail app on the iPhone, a critical piece of software for many users. The default mail app is 'slow and unreliable,' according to Mossberg, and making things worse, it doesn't seem to want to play nicely with Gmail, one of the most popular email services in the world with over 1 billion users.
In my experience, Mossberg is right: The built-in mail client on the iPhone has been lacking for a while. Mossberg wrote: Apple claims this is an issue beyond its control, or the control of any other email app vendor, because Gmail uses nonstandard technology that gives a speed advantage to the search giant's own apps and sites. (Google has told me otherwise in the past.) Apple's excuse reveals its anxiety over a growing focus for the company: online services. This is an area where Apple trails its big competitors: Google still owns maps, Facebook Messenger regularly tops the App Store charts, and Spotify continues to gain new subscribers even as Apple pushes its music-subscription service. For what it's worth, I don't buy it. I use Microsoft Outlook on the iPhone, and it works perfectly fine with Gmail. Outlook is snappy and modern, complete with threaded messaging, email snoozing, and sophisticated filtering that ensures that what lands in my inbox is an actual message from another human.
It's what I want from Apple's built-in app. And I'm not the only person who thinks Outlook is a significantly better email client than Apple's. Business Insider's Stephen Tweedie agrees, as do several other writers here and at our sister publication, Tech Insider. For years, Apple was happy to provide the best physical computer or phone for users to access services from internet-focused companies like Google. But as the company looks for new growth avenues as iPhone and Mac sales stall, it's realizing that it needs to catch up — which is why it's building three new data centers in the next two years. CEO Tim Cook is fond of saying that there are certain achievements that only Apple can pull off, thanks to its integration of hardware, software, and services. But increasingly, competitors like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon can do all three as well, and they have a decisive advantage over Apple when it comes to services. Catching up will be a bigger challenge than fixing a buggy Mail app.