Microsoft Office 2016

Microsoft Office 2016 (codenamed Office 16) is an upcoming version of Microsoft Office scheduled to be released on Microsoft Windows in late 2015 or early 2016, and released on OS X on 9 July 2015. A preview release of the Windows version was announced at the Ignite conference in Chicago in May 2015, and subsequently released.

Windows
New features in the Windows release include the ability to create, open, edit, and save files in the cloud straight from the desktop, a new search tool for commands available in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel named "Tell Me", and co-authoring in real time with users connected to Office Online.

Other smaller features include Insights, a feature powered by Bing to provide contextual information from the web, new chart types in Excel (such as treemap, sunburst chart (also known as a ring chart), waterfall chart, box plot and histogram), and a data loss prevention feature in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Mac
New features in the Mac release include a full Ribbon interface, support for Retina displays, and new sharing features for Office documents.

In Word, there is a new Design tab, an Insights feature, which is powered by Bing, and real-time co-authoring. In Excel, there is a Recommended Charts feature, and PivotTable Slicers. In PowerPoint, there are theme variants, which provide different color schemes for a theme. In Outlook, there is a Propose New Time feature, the ability to see calendars side by side, and a weather forecast in the calendar view.

Design
The user interface design of Office 2016 is relatively unchanged from its predecessor, Office 2013. It retains the same Microsoft design language-based flat design interface, albeit a few modifications to the layout in order to conform with the design of Microsoft Office's mobile suite. Office 2016 has three themes. The default theme, known as "colorful", features a solid colour on the top band of the ribbon, corresponding to the colour of the Office app being used, for example, a solid dark blue is featured prominently in Microsoft Word. The theme had been described as useful in making the tab headings more distinct. In addition, both the "white" and "dark grey" themes from Office 2013 are available as well, though, no new backgrounds have been added, nor existing backgrounds removed.