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Microsoft's strongest product!
November 07, 2019

Microsoft's strongest product!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Office 2016

Office 2016 is being used in many ways by our organization, primarily for Outlook as an email interface with our corporate Office365 email account, Excel as a tool in all departments, though primarily financial, PowerPoint for internal training and as a tool for presentations to clients, and of course Word in virtually all the ways Word can be used in a corporate environment in the Healthcare industry. Using Office provides secure, consistent, easy-to-use document creation and exchange internally and with other organizations given the ubiquitous nature of Microsoft products.
  • The aesthetic quality is light years beyond previous versions of Office and comparable products from other companies.
  • Integration between each of the applications that make up the Office Suite.
  • Legacy integration. We have yet to run into any issues opening or saving as formats for previous versions of Office.
  • Industry-standard implementation.
  • Customizability - It is easy to customize the interface both for appearance and application integration between Office applications.
  • As of yet, I have no complaints about Office 2016. It is potentially the most solid product Microsoft has produced.
  • It integrates well with encryption methods and needs which allows us to more easily secure and transport client data.
  • The internal integration between applications saves vast amounts of time where similar applications from various companies might take much longer to get to work together.
While the other products are fine in and of themselves (particularly LibreOffice) they lack the polish, cohesion, and ubiquitous nature of Microsoft Office, specifically the appearance of Office 2016. Each Office application makes common tasks far easier for the common user where it's open-source alternatives may require various plug-ins to be installed and configured, placing them out of reach for the average user. Formatting of documents used to be an issue, but the open-source alternatives, to their credit have come a LONG way in working with Office formats. The other things however still place Office on top.
To be honest, I haven't had to contact support yet for Office 2016, but having used Microsoft's support for other products, I'm pretty glad about that. Microsoft could use some work there. The upside is that there is a large amount of community support for Microsoft products so that helps and will be what I lean on if an issue does arise.

Do you think Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) again?

Yes

Appropriate in any business environment, specifically where various types of data management are necessary and where efficiency and integration between applications that create and manage various data types are necessary. But it's also appropriate for any user in need of a local email solution, and any kind of document creation.