Very cool! Just in case you haven’t see this new feature – here is an example: They can even edit the timeline and the multiple timelines will still be there for the 2016 users.
You will of course miss out on the new features related to resource management (my earlier blog today) and you won’t get multiple timeline bars if you stick with 2013 – but you will still be able to work! You can even share mpp files between the 20 versions – the 2013 users will not see multiple timeline bars – but will not break them for everyone else – they will just see the tasks on a single timeline bar. You can even keep your Project Professional 2013 and use it against Project Server 2016 when that comes out next year. In this release we have both backward and forward compatibility (for now – more later) so you can use the ‘16’ version of Project Pro for Office 365, or even Project Professional 2016 to connect to Project Server 2013. Hang on – but what if I am using Project Pro for Office 365 because I like the subscription model for the desktop applications but am still using Project Server 2013? No problem. Some organizations may control when the updates are available for their users – so you may not get it right away.
#UPGRADE OFFICE 2013 TO 2016 UPDATE#
If you have Project Pro for Office 365 then the question of upgrade doesn’t really arise – it is just like any other update that happens with the click to run subscription based products – but it just happens to take you up to a new major version number (The version if you go to File, Account, About… will start with a ‘16’). Here I am just talking about the desktop product – so Project Standard or Project Professional – and also Project Pro for Office 365.