4 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020

MICROSOFT IGNITE EVENT

10 biggest Ignite reveals

include more ways to tie

Office to the web

M

icrosoft plans to announce a boatload of new

capabilities to Office, search, and Edge at its

Ignite conference last month, including rollout

plans for its Chromium-based Edge browser, a tool to

read your email aloud in the Outlook app, corporate

insights driven by Microsoft Search, and more. But

subtle improvements such as natural-language queries

in Excel may prove more significant.

Outlook gains new features, too. MARK HACHMAN reports

4 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020

MICROSOFT IGNITE EVENT

10 biggest Ignite reveals

include more ways to tie

Office to the web

M

icrosoft plans to announce a boatload of new

capabilities to Office, search, and Edge at its

Ignite conference last month, including rollout

plans for its Chromium-based Edge browser, a tool to

read your email aloud in the Outlook app, corporate

insights driven by Microsoft Search, and more. But

subtle improvements such as natural-language queries

in Excel may prove more significant.

Outlook gains new features, too. MARK HACHMAN reports