{"id":117703,"date":"2015-03-16T05:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=117703"},"modified":"2022-07-20T07:40:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:40:44","slug":"announcing-the-office-2016-it-pro-and-developer-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/announcing-the-office-2016-it-pro-and-developer-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office 365 Client Apps and Services team.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m pleased to announce the IT Pro and Developer Preview of Office 2016 for the Windows desktop. We\u2019ve been in private preview with Office 2016 for several months. Now we\u2019re ready to expand the program to our commercial Office 365 customers, an important milestone that gives IT pros and developers an opportunity to start testing the upcoming release. To be clear, this early build doesn\u2019t yet contain all the features we\u2019re planning to ship in the final product. However, through the course of the preview, customers should expect to see new features delivered through monthly updates.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll share more on the end-user enhancements planned for this release at a later date, but here\u2019s a brief summary of some of the valuable updates for IT pros and developers.<\/p>\n

Data Loss Protection (DLP)<\/strong>\u2014Over the last few years we\u2019ve added DLP to Exchange, Outlook, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint. Now we\u2019re bringing these same classification and policy features to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. With these new capabilities, IT admins can centrally create, manage and enforce policies for content authoring and document sharing\u2014and end users will see policy tips or sharing restrictions when the apps detect a potential policy violation.<\/p>\n

Outlook<\/strong>\u2014We\u2019re delivering a number of significant technical improvements to Outlook.<\/p>\n