

The Outlook add-in lets you send gift cards to your contacts directly through the email app and also lets you schedule coffee meetings that includes a link out to the Starbucks app for placing a mobile order. But arguably the most life-changing addition to Office has to be the new Starbucks add-in the company showed off during the Build day two keynote this morning. Making them work with Office on the Mac goes helps unify the platform, something Microsoft has made a major focus in recent years.Microsoft also launched new tools to help build more advanced Excel add-ins, deploy Office add-ins (if you're a system administrator) and find add-ins for Outlook. It's a smart move to get those add-ins out to the Mac, because they're already available on Windows, the iPad and the online Office interface.

Probably the most notable was the news that "add-ins" for Office (which work similar to browser extensions) would be coming to Office for Mac for the first time.

Microsoft Office didn't get a ton of stage time at Build this year, but the company announced a handful of improvements for both users and developers.
