Microsoft Brings Windows 10 Emoji on Windows 7 with Office 2016 Update

Emojis appear to be a priority for Microsoft, as the company is rolling out several improvements to the small smiley faces in its operating systems every once in a while, and today it’s bringing the Windows 10 experience on Windows 7 with an Office update.

@SwiftOnSecurity was the first to spot the update, with Microsoft itself explaining that the new Office 2016 update indeed brings emoticons in documents on Windows 7.

The update, however, doesn’t bring emoji in the operating system per se, but only in Office documents, addressing an issue that many people complained about in the previous versions. Microsoft explains that in many cases, emojis looked like black boxes in Office, so with this update, this issue is finally fixed with the help of a new font that’s automatically instead i...