Microsoft Office on Xbox One

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Microsoft Office on Xbox One

Anonymous

Alright, I'm sure it sounds strange, but with as the lines between PCs and our Xbox Ones continues to get blurred every day, I'm a strong advocate for adding Office services, or at the very least Word, to the list of apps compatible across PCs and Xbox.

As someone who writes both professionally and in his spare time, I'm of the belief that some places are just more conducive to writing than others, and I'm the type of person who would love to connect a keyboard and mouse (is Bluetooth a possibility?) to my Xbox One and start writing on my TV as I sit back on my couch.

Maybe it's not the most conventional use of the Xbox platform, but I see some value to adding something like Word and/or Powerpoint to the app store for the console. Anyone else feel the same way?

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Anonymous

I agree they should add them but they should also add excel because theirs a lot of spreadsheets that can help you find out what the best weapon or cars is in a games. It would just be easier then finding it on your phone or PC.

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Anonymous

This is great! Thanks for passing that along — sorry if this suggestion made it in the wrong place, I'll go ahead and post it over there. Thanks again!

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I don't think it is an unreasonable idea. Xboxes should have the computing power to run Office applications.

If you are looking for support from other people, this is a reasonable place to ask the question. But if you want to make this a suggestion to MS for a "new feature" you should also create a posting on the UserVoice forum (Copy a link from your suggestion back here so people can easily find it and vote for it).

You could create the suggestion in one or both of these specific uservoice forums:

Xbox– http://xbox.uservoice.com
Office in general -http://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general

"UserVoice.com" - MS Suggestion box sites

You can use the Office or Windows 10 "feedback" (**)applets but then your suggestions just fall into a black hole. You get no feedback from MS about your feedback.

A better place to submit this type of feedback the "UserVoice" forum. You can submit suggestions like this to the forum either by "voting" and commenting on a similar existing suggestion or by creating a new suggestion for others to vote and comment on.

It is also a good idea to provide cross posted links. Put a link back to this answers.com posting on UserVoice, and add a reply here with a link to your specific posting on UserVoice.

This next link has a longer collection of MS UserVoice.com sites:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ows/wiki/windows_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-uservoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f

Go to UserVoice, either through specific links I’ve provided below or create your own suggestions there. That is where MS is looking specifically for this type of user feedback to bring them back to reality from what-ever lala-land they are working in when they make these "improvements". Comments (and votes) like these in UserVoice helped to convince MS to roll back the "phat QAT" buttons in 2016 and to at least partially undo the 2016 changes to the way the Pen input works.

Please do copy the comments you've made here and paste them into comments in UserVoice. Also include a link to this question. If you do make a suggestion, copy the link to the UserVoice suggestion and post it back on this question so other people with the same problem can vote for it and comment on it. (You’ll get faster action that way.) Please get all of your friends and co-workers who use Office to vote for your issue!

This blog has a picture to show MS really is looking at UserVoice sites:

http://blog.indezine.com/2016/02/powerpoint-feedback-and-uservoice-does.html

https://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10

Public petition site

Here are links to some of my personal “favorite” specific suggestions:

Office 2016 does not properly use Windows 10 Appication title bar color selection https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/15476307-office-2016-does-not-properly-use-windows-10-appic

Reinstatement of the option to Pin Folders at:https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/12582018-restore-pinned-folders-in-save-options-in-all-offi

Recently Used List Sort order: Date vs Alpha as of Feb 22, 2016

10 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10137741-recently-used-list-sort-order-date-vs-alpha

144 vote https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10261443-recent-files-pane-in-excel-2013-was-pretty-good-b

Excel Suggestion “Under review” Nov 25, 2015 (wow, fast action)

QAT buttons not showing custom imageshttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12512571-qat-buttons-not-showing-custom-images

Bring back Picture Manger to the Office 2016 Bundlehttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12498702-bring-picture-manager-back-to-office-bundle

put somewhere to see how much space I've used and how much I have****https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/suggestions/7760340-put-somewhere-to-see-how-much-space-i-ve-used-and ****As of July 14, 2016, on only just the first 3 search result pages on “much”

75 Votes total

30 votes put somewhere to see how much space I've used and how much I have

4 vote Show how much storage left and used

9 votes Show how much storage is left on the OneDrive app

1 votes to tell me how much space is left

1 votes Ensure how much space available is clearly shown in realtime

6 votes it will be good to show how much space has been used and how much space is still available

2 votes t should be available in the app how much free memory has been used, and how much still available.

1 votes add a space bar! Not a space bar like the keyboard, but one that says how much space you've used and how much you have left!

5 votes would be nice to see how much space I have available on my onedrive.

1 votes show how much available space you have left and percentage left available

2 votes Add a feature to tell the user how much space is left on OneDrive

2 votes Add remaining space in hamburger menu, it's much easier to see it there.

1 votes SHOW ME HOW MUCH SPACE I HAVE LEFT ON MY APP

1 votes can you make it easier to see how much storage space remains?

1 votes Have a pie chart telling you how much storage you have used

1 votes I think a feature should be added to onedrive that tells you how much space you've used out of how much u have. EX 50.47mb/100.00gb

1 votes Have an easy to find icon that shows the size capacity of the account and how much has been used

1 votes I hope you will create an option to see how much space you have available from the phone.

1 votes very simple just show how much storage is left as new files are uploaded to the cloud

2 votes data useage, ie how much data have we used of cloud allowance and a start page to show that with quick links

1 votes I think there needs to be a storage meter or something to tell people how much of their storage limit the have used

1 votes The app needs a place that informs the user how much total storage space is being used (a feature of Dropbox).

Petition to MS President to allow Windows Home users control Windows Updateshttps://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10 (The matching UserVoice site has been discontinued by MS)

Don’t want Office 2016 tied to Userid -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10517283-allow-activation-without-the-need-of-a-ms-mail-acc

Actually there are multiple threads with same point. As of Feb 1 2016 there are 785 votes on this question in multiple suggestions

ALLOW Activation without the need of a MS mail account. 386 votes

Office 2016 OEM without LiveID account 138 votes

Office 2016 Activation and installation without an email account 172 votes

return to the same process for activating Office 2016 that was used for all previous versions of Office. No "Live" accounts! 26 Votes

The Office 2016 Activation process is impossible for business's that purchase Microsoft licensing OEM. 70 votes

Activation without a live account. 7 votes

Need Office 2016 activation WITHOUT a Microsoft account! 6 votes

Allow Business Admin Portal to manage Office 1-time payment licenses toohttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/11448504-allow-business-admin-portal-to-manage-office-2016

Improve Highlightinghttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9389778-improve-highlighting

Make the full spectrum of colors that are available in Shading also available in Highlighting. I often use Highlighting to mark important or unusual text streams and I would like to search for particular colors of Highlighting .

Visio 365 monthly specifically for Consumer licenses -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10936428-visio365-monthly-for-consumer-365-users-and-oth

Recreate the single text margin around page like 2010 and earlier -http://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries- Marked as “under Review”, so there is some hope … <grin>

Restore Radial Menu to OneNote439 votes total Feb 20 2016 ****148 votes Include radial menu in desktop onenote

20 votes Radial Menu -

183 votes Bring back the radial fly out menu in the W10 Store version of OneNote -

42 votes Bring back Radial Menu and Camera insert in Windows 10

16 votes- Bring back Radial Menu for Windows 10 App

25 votes- Keep the OneNote Windows 8 UI over the Windows 10 Beta UI

plus a bunch more pen requests

Add mind mapping to OneNote -https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-windows-windows-phone/suggestions/6160979-mindmap-functionality?page=4&per_page=20

Custom installation from Office 365 (2016) / Return MSI installer option - ****https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/9939513-custom-installation-from-office-365-2016

Word 2016 Style Pane bug -mouse pointer wrong https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/11196345-word-2016-style-pane-corrupt-or-buggy-after-update