The ‘tell me’ box is essentially a search box, much like Bing.

The ‘Tell me what to do…’ feature cuts right through any confusion in Office 2016. If you’ve never owned Office, the free Office Mobile apps that can be downloaded from the Windows Store onto iOS, Android, and Windows Phones are very good-and include some of the intelligence and sharing capabilities built into Office 2016. My advice to an individual, family, or small business owner: Wait. It’s those people who fall somewhere in the middle-unwilling to commit to Office 365, but still wavering whether or not to buy Office-who must decide.

Windows 10 users already have access to Microsoft’s own baked-in, totally free version of Office, the Office Mobile apps. If you subscribe to Office 365, it’s a moot point those bits will stream down to your PC shortly. Office 365 is $7 per month for a Personal plan (with one device installation) and $10 per month for a Home Plan, where Office can be installed on five devices and five phones. You could still buy Office 2016 as a standalone product: It costs $149 for Office 2016 Home & Student (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote) and $229 for Office Home & Business, which adds Outlook 2016.

And to use all of the advanced features of Office, you must own some sort of Windows PC. But Microsoft’s brave new world runs best on Office 365, Microsoft’s subscription service, where everybody has the latest software that automatically updates over time. Microsoft says its new collaborative workflow reflects how people do things now, from study groups to community centers on up to enterprise sales forces.

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