- Coming up we take a look at Office for Mac,
complete with the latest updates from tailored features
for the Mac, such as Touch Bar integration.
New capabilities to support teamwork in real time
co-authoring with integrative chat.
To intelligent experiences for content creation
if you're an IT admin.
We're going to show you how advanced protection
and unconditional access also now extend to the Mac.
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I'm joined today by Scott
from the Office for Mac team, welcome.
- Thanks so much for having me.
Great to be on the show today.
- So a lot of times when we open these shows,
we see a Mac on the stage and people would comment
maybe on YouTube or on other places that it's odd
given our history with Windows.
- Yeah, it's pretty funny to me because
it's actually a little known fact that Microsoft
is one of the largest developers for the Apple platform,
really have been for decades now.
We've got a whole dedicated lab, dedicated team
that expands across the entire globe,
and one of the largest Apple device labs
right here on the Redmond campus.
- Right, in fact the work we do on Mac actually
goes beyond just Office.
Our dev tools like
Visual Studio code run on Macs,
even our Quantum Development Kit is now
actually available on the Mac as well.
- And beyond the Mac we of course support IOS, Android,
and basically anywhere you want to be, we are too.
So for Office, what really makes this possible
is our core Office architecture.
Having a shared code base across Windows, Mac,
and all those other platforms.
And what this means is we can deliver new features
for Office faster then ever before
across all different platforms.
The next thing you need to do is to think about
creating a code base that's platform specific,
integrating with the characteristics of the OS
really down to that platform layer.
And then on top of that we want to build in
a tailored user interface that complements
the familiar Office feeling with that great opportunity
of what the OS provides to us,
so it's natural and intuitive for the user base.
And then the last step is we really want to bring that
shared service code to hook into
the different Cloud services
and intelligent capabilities such as AI.
- So why don't we get specific on how we actually
take advantage of the Mac OS,
and what we do in terms of offering tailored experiences
for this platform.
- Totally, so one of those Mac specific features
is the Touch Bar,
and I want to go ahead and show you that today.
So here in PowerPoint, we're going to go ahead
and just click into start.
And as we go from slide to slide, you can actually see
a nice easy cinematic kind of transition here.
All this is powered with Morph.
So let me go ahead and show you how you can do that
with nothing but the Touch Bar
and few simple keyboard commands.
So I'm going to go ahead and just copy the whole slide.
Grab on to this quadcopter up here,
and then right on the Touch Bar I can select it
to rotate it to any angle I want.
And it looks like 20 degrees or so is a great angle for us.
I'm going to move it over, resize this guy a bit.
Find a spot for it that looks great,
and then up in transitions I'm going to go ahead
and make sure Morph is turned on,
and it looks like we're good to go.
And now we'll dive into the slide show
to see what that looks like together.
And as we go through the slides, we'll see
this quadcopter hop in from the right side
over to the left side with a nice easy transition
to create that rich cinematic feel.
And it was super easy to get that done
with just the keyboard itself and the Touch Bar,
which is unique of course to the Mac platform.
- Right, this looks really great.
One of my favorite features in terms of Touch Bar support
is how it works with Word.
- Definitely, so here we've got Word opened up.
And I want to go ahead and show you something
that's unique to the platform we have now with Word on Mac.
We can go ahead and click into our focus mode,
and the first thing you'll notice is it zooms right into
that document, fading to black in the background
and getting everything out of your way.
- So you can focus on your work.
- That's exactly right.
And you'll notice even the ribbon is gone on top,
but with the unique Touch Bar, we can still
do some light editing right here in the document.
For example on top I can go ahead and actually
pick out our highlighter.
I'm going to go ahead and select the green color here,
and now I can use the touch pad to just grab
this whole paragraph, make it green,
make it feel real important and easy to go.
Another cool capability as well for light editing,
I'll select in on the font, I can pick a new color out.
I'm going to go ahead and pick out this nice bright red,
and I can see where I want to change the color scheme.
And it looks like this area here would be a great candidate
to all of the sudden be in our red ink.
And we can do that nice, easy, light editing
from the Touch Bar.
And if we swipe left to right, we can actually find
several more opportunities, whether it's commenting
or adding pictures, all there in focus mode.
- Right and these swipe gestures are something
that we've also taken from kind of the IOS roots
in terms of how we're supporting Mac OS in this case.
We can do some things with gestures in Outlook
that we've taken from the mobile app.
- Yeah, so right here in Outlook, as I scroll
through my inbox,
really similar, of course, to the IOS platform.
Now we can actually go ahead, find an email,
and right on the track pad just swipe right to flag it
or I can swipe left to archive it.
So real, nice, easy gestures that are familiar
from the phone are now here right on the Mac platform
in our Outlook for desktop.
- Really cool, and these are a couple of things
that are specific to and unique to the Mac,
but you mentioned we hooked into things like Cloud services
and we can also do this, the stuff that we'd expect
on Windows or mobile devices, right here from our Mac.
- Yeah, so I'm going to go into Word
and just open up a file here
and show you some great examples
of what those services can do for us.
So as I open up in the back stage, you can notice
that there is the shared with me area,
so anything people have sent me over the past
you know few weeks, few months, is ready to go.
And in my recent folder here I can actually find
everything I've been working on most recently of course,
and it really helps us to avoid the idea of hunting around
in the inbox for links to save us a ton of time.
So I'm going to go ahead and just open up
this quadcopter camera document that we've been working on
here together the past week or so.
And one of the really cool things you'll notice
on the top right is it actually tells me,
you're in the document already working with me now.
- [Jeremy] I am.
- [Scott] And if I click on to this here, I can actually
go ahead and find your location.
- [Jeremy] Okay.
- [Scott] Oh, and it looks like you're actually already
in there typing in real time.
It's super cool how it calls out for us your name directly,
and you can follow that flag to see what you're working on.
- And the nice thing is here
with co-authoring, the documents
automatically saving in the background
so we don't lose any changes.
- Yeah, plus you can use version history to revert
to a version if you aren't happy with
the current edits you're seeing.
So it's also up here in the top right.
You see all the earlier versions of those files going on.
But another cool capability to help us working together
is we can actually chat with each other
right in the document.
So I see here my chat window, there's two participants.
I can say hey to you.
It looks like Jeremy is particularly complimentary today,
which I really appreciate.
- Yes, I always am.
- Makes it fun to work together.
So just like that we can stay in the document,
chat with each other, and get what we need done
real fast and easy.
- These are really great collaborative capabilities,
and there are other things you can do with AI
to make it easier to work with teams
that might be in other geographies as well.
- Right, so let's say for example that you're actually
working with a team over in Germany.
With our integrated translator we can go ahead
and either create a selection of this document
for translation or an entire document translation.
So I'm going to pick out a little area here,
go into our translate, pick a selection out,
and one of the really cool things is
it's actually going to auto-detect for us
that it started in English and take us over into German.
And we've got this panel in here before we insert
anything to give us a sense of does it look right,
feel right, before we insert it.
- And it looks pretty accurate.
It actually even restructured the sentence a bit
for German there, so it looks great.
I'm a German speaker myself.
Why don't we continue and translate the entire document.
- Yeah, super helpful.
So I'm going to go ahead now and actually
translate this entire document.
Again it will auto-detect that we're in English.
So one of the really cool things is it's actually
creating an entire second document, so we can grab it
and go side by side with the German version
that's brand new and the English version here on the left.
And we can see, does it look right and feel right,
and do a simple side by side comparison of those two docs
and keep them separate.
- This is another great use of intelligence,
in this case cognitive services, to do translation
of the document into a foreign language.
- Yeah, and there's another way that we're using AI,
and that's inside of Word with our resume assistant.
So let me open up my recent resume.
And with my recent resume open, I'm going to go over
to our review tab and just turn on that resume assistant,
which is all powered by LinkedIn.
So I can go ahead and in here actually pick out
whatever role I want to work on,
which is really helpful as I think through
of the different examples to get information
and inspiration of how I might want to represent myself.
And a cool aspect is I can even filter by different example.
Like product development here.
And you see it starts to get highlighted
in those different representations.
And a really cool thing too as I build out my resume,
I can actually pick out wherever I might want to work,
and how that we've been talking about Germany so much,
I've got Berlin on the mind.
So let's take a look and see
what opportunities are available there.
And so now that we've got Berlin picked up,
it's actually showing us local opportunities
of where we can work.
And if my resume is ready to go,
a really cool benefit is I can turn on this option
of being an open candidate,
and let recruiters know that I'm really open for business.
And I've got a great resume ready
to land that dream job for me.
- So great capabilities to help you find
your next opportunity, but why don't we go back
into the PowerPoint and just see how we're infusing
intelligence in there.
- Yeah, so I'm just going to open up a basic presentation
and show you some of the cool capabilities
we have going on now.
We've got a really simple document here,
but with AI and our designer tech, we can
actually make this look great in just a few clicks.
The first thing I want to do is go ahead
and actually insert some pictures from my file here.
I'm going to grab them, and this is part of
that same quadcopter we were working on a minute ago.
And as we drop in the images, on our right hand side,
AI powered recommendations will pop in,
pulling in the right color scheme as well as
if we pick a choice here, you'll even see
it's cropping the right part of that image
so you don't lose at all the message
you're trying to communicate with that visual.
And it's not just about pictures.
You can actually go ahead and get generated ideas
for different paragraphs and different bullets.
And again it keeps that same color formula going.
I'll grab one in here.
And another really nice benefit is if you lay out
a whole timeline in bullet form,
we can convert that for you to a great visual,
which makes it way easier for you to follow along
with your audience.
And then the last trick up our sleave here
in the designer world, is with these set of bullets
you can also go ahead and pull out
and create smart art based on keywords
that are in that little sentence.
So here you're seeing the action words,
I actually pulled out from the sentences you see,
download, join, share, talk.
And in just a matter of a few clicks,
we were able to create an awesome looking presentation
that started so simple.
And that'll be more engaging I hope for the audience.
- Right, that's going to save a lot of time
as you're creating new slides.
So the intelligence actually goes beyond
just saving time and in the content creation
side of things, it also can be used to apply
proactive security controls or information protection.
- Yeah, that's a good point.
So let's take a look at that here in Excel.
As I open my document up, it looks like things
are all blacked out and it might be a bit of a phishing scam
happening here to grab some of the credentials
and hurt my organization.
So as we pull it up here, it actually gets protected
through our safe link technology
and the intelligent security features
grabbed it and said, hey this looks a little bit malicious.
You might not want to mess around with this website.
So it stops me before anything goes wrong
and helps me out.
- So that's really part of advanced protection in Office 365
and that's what's in effect here, shielding you.
Now additional management controls also apply
to the Mac that you might be making for Windows
or for Mac or in another cases for mobile devices.
Things like data loss prevention.
We also recently announced a partnership with Jamf,
and this allows you to enforce conditional
access policies on the Mac.
And the way that works is it allows us to use
their assessment of system health,
whether that system is up to date and patched.
And that information is then passed in to Microsoft Intune
and Azure Active Directory to enforce
conditional access policies.
Now we recently also showed information classification
in the Azure Information Protection tools
that also work on the Mac, and you can check that out
on a previous show.
So that's really a great update in terms of the latest
things that we've done for Office on the Mac.
Thanks for joining us today, Scott,
and covering all the great updates.
- Yeah we covered a lot of ground today,
starting with that shared code base for the Office platforms
so you can deliver features faster than ever.
Taking a look at those Mac specific benefits
on the Touch Bar, and talking about how AI
can really help it be more productive.
So the best way to get everything we talked about today,
it's really with Office 365.
That's our always up to date subscription.
And if you want to learn more, just head on over
to office.com and everything you need
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