Office 365 will be called Microsoft 365: more parental control functions are coming and a greater commitment to the use of AI

Office 365 is one of Microsoft's best-known tools and over time it has been gaining in capabilities, especially with the empowerment of the cloud as support. And now the company wants to give a new twist to a tool that, changes its name and gains benefits

Office 365, the subscription service of the Redmond-based company will be renamed from April 21, Microsoft 365 A new a more global name, in which the company adds functions such as a new Family Safety application and where it reinforces its commitment to the use of artificial intelligence and cloud-based tools.

Don't say Office 365, say Microsoft 365

The good news is that Office 365, sorry, Microsoft 356, maintains the price, which will continue to be 7 euros 7 per month o 69 euros per year if it is for personal use or 10 euros per month and 99 euros per year for the family plan.

You have to remember that already in December 2019 we saw rumors that pointed to a change in the way Microsoft's subscription service is marketed. Even in September, some users saw changes in this regard in their accounts. This may be the final result

Microsoft 365 gathers all the good things that Office 365 had but also adds new functions Regarding what is already known, we will continue to have access to Office desktop applications, cloud storage with OneDrive and a capacity of 1 TB and 60 minutes of Skype phone calls each month.

Microsoft Family Safety

And regarding the news, we find a new family safety application, Microsoft Family Safety, which among other factors allows you to control the time screen that we make of the equipment.

This is a mobile app that wants to serve parents so that they can monitor and control their children's activityWith it you can know the screen time that your children spend, their location, the applications they use, whether on a Windows PC, on an Android phone or on an Xbox.

In addition, the parent can set limits regarding the time of use of the devices as well as limit access to certain web content. And all this through an app that can be downloaded on both iOS and Android.

Teams and Office

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In the case of Teams, a tool used until now mainly for the business environment, now wins with the arrival of functions that make it more social , capabilities that will facilitate contact and organization of our digital life with family and friends. We can make group calls, send photos and videos, organize meetings... and everything from the Teams app."

In addition, new capabilities are coming. This is the case of Microsoft Editor, a tool that relies on the use of artificial intelligence and that will help Word and Outlook applications. In order to help us write documents (you can even make suggestions), this tool even has a system that helps us avoid possible plagiarism problems by recognizing when what we write is similar to other content and in that case, suggests the corresponding quote.What's more, they also have an extension in mind that makes it compatible with Google Chrome but also with the new Chromium-based Edge.

PowerPoint is another of the classic applications that gains in functions, since now it can also suggest changes in grammar and improvements to have better presentations. In this sense, PowerPoint Designer will facilitate access to more than 8,000 images and 175 looping videos of the Getty images as well as more than 200 new templates.

With Outlook comes new capabilities that help us manage all our work and life, in one place. We will be able to link our personal calendar to the work calendar and thus show our real availability in the work account and always maintaining privacy around the details of personal appointments and business meetings.

Also announcing the expansion of Play My Emails on Android, where Cortana provides intelligent reading of your emails. Play My Emails offers us information about the new emails that arrive in the inbox. On the other hand, Microsoft Search now recognizes natural language on iOS and Android, making it easier to get results faster and easier. The new search functionality and availability of Play My Emails on Android will begin rolling out in the coming months.

Microsoft has big plans for Microsoft, there is no doubt about that, and it remains to be seen what is the acceptance of this change among users. We will leave doubts as of April 21.

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