Microsoft yesterday issued Office 2016 to Office 365 commercial subscribers who had adopted the slower release cadence, which the company called “Current Branch for Business.”

Those customers may begin downloading and installing the same Office 2016 client applications — Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word and others — that debuted in September 2015.

Also on Tuesday, Microsoft renamed the Office 365 release tracks it first spelled out in September. “Current Branch for Business” has been relabeled “Deferred Channel,” while the faster “Current Branch” has been rebranded as “Current Channel.”

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