If you have installed Office 365 ProPlus (Professional Plus), you may have noticed that it installs differently to other versions of Microsoft Office. This is because it uses a technology called Click-to-Run.

When you install Office via Office 365, Instead of downloading the entire office suite in one go, Office downloads a small file around 500k called a “bootstrapper”, this then “streams” down the rest of office in tiny bits directly from Microsoft’s servers. The installation has been designed so the most used features of office are downloaded first meaning office is ready to use in record time. If the user launches a program, for instance Microsoft Word; the stream dynamically changes to download that application.

So, just how fast can you install Office ProPlus? The Office Garage team find out!