OneNote, which is available free to all Windows users, also integrates with Office 365, and Microsoft Visio and Project can be added as separate product subscriptions. The ProPlus edition comes in at 10.10 per user and includes Access.
We're still waiting for Android and iOS Skype for Business apps to be fully released, although the apps have now entered a preview phase accessible to some corporate users. Office 365 Business Premium adds extra storage, Skype for Business and email capabilities at 7.80 per user, per month with an annual commitment. The core Office 2016 Business suite includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Publisher and costs 7.00 per user, per month with an annual commitment. It's currently not clear whether their online features work properly using the free Microsoft OneDrive cloud space that all Windows users are entitled to. When they do finally come out, perpetual licence editions won't benefit from the same regular feature updates that VL and Office 365 customers get. Standard perpetual licence versions should be coming later in the year.
Office 365 users are getting the new versions first, with enterprise Volume Licence customers able to use the new software from the beginning of October. We're fans of Office 2013's interface, so it's certainly welcome to see that Microsoft hasn't tried to fix anything that isn't broken. Instead, the focus is on incremental improvements that primarily focus on the ubiquitous office suite's cloud-based features.
Microsoft Office 2016 doesn't look very different to Office 2013, with its use of solid colours and Ribbon bars that are almost entirely unchanged.