Excel for Windows finally gets real-time collaboration
Microsoft has brought live, collaborative editing to its Excel app for Windows through a beta update it launched on Tuesday. With the new feature, testers can collaborate with one another on the same file from inside the app.
Live collaboration has been a major focus of Office 2016, which Microsoft released roughly a year and a half ago. The suite first offered real-time co-authoring for the desktop version of Word, then expanded those capabilities to PowerPoint. It’s a major change for Microsoft’s client applications, which previously kept editing to a fairly solitary experience.
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