{"id":406208,"date":"2017-09-25T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/24\/microsoft-revamps-office-365-web-launchers\/21|23221130"},"modified":"2017-09-25T03:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T19:31:00","slug":"office-365s-revamped-web-launchers-put-you-to-work-sooner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/office-365s-revamped-web-launchers-put-you-to-work-sooner\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 365&#8217;s revamped web launchers put you to work sooner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things promise to be simpler once you&#8217;re waist-deep in work, too. There&#8217;s a streamlined Office 365 web launcher that focuses just on the most common apps and those you use often, so you&#8217;re not wading through menus to return to a favorite tool. You can pin apps if you know you&#8217;ll need to use, them, and there&#8217;s a prominent recent documents section that will switch you back to that all-important report. If you&#8217;re not sure which app to use, you can explore recommended apps to get resources, install desktop apps and otherwise determine whether or not it&#8217;s the right tool for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft expects these updates to reach Office 365 users &#8220;soon,&#8221; so don&#8217;t be surprised if they aren&#8217;t visible right away. Whenever you get them, it&#8217;s clear that Microsoft is increasingly treating Office&#8217;s web version as its own sort of operating system, not just as a collection of apps. This won&#8217;t necessarily lure you or your company to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/08\/16\/google-docs-update-version-tracking\/\">Google Apps<\/a>, but it could make the Office experience more cohesive.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9mEYBpUsb6k\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things promise to be simpler once you&#8217;re waist-deep in work, too. There&#8217;s a streamlined Office 365 web launcher that focuses just on the most common apps and those you use often, so you&#8217;re not wading through menus to return to a favorite tool. You can pin apps if you know you&#8217;ll need to use, them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":406209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-406208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}