Microsoft continues to make its free Office Web Apps more useable for folks who don’t want to pony up the money to spend on a full Office 2013 install. This week, the company revealed that the Word Web App has now added the ability for its users to view PDF documents. In a post on …

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Microsoft is preparing for its monthly Patch Tuesday software update event, which lands on July 9 this time with seven security patches. However, six of those seven bulletins have been labeled as “Critical” by Microsoft, which is the most we have seen in one month in some time. The other bulletin has an “Important” label. …

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Microsoft will release quite a few new software products later this fall, including the final version of Windows 8.1. Today, the company confirmed that Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, the next version of its enterprise resource and customer management tools, will be made available sometime this fall as well. Microsoft’s press release offers up some information …

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This week, Microsoft offered a preview of the coming real-time co-authoring feature for its Office Web Apps, which will further extend the web-based productivity suite’s functional lead over competition like Google Docs. This new feature will let co-authors see each other’s changes immediately, as they occur. The Office Web Apps provide web-based versions of Word, …

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Almost as old as the iPhone itself are the rumours that have persistently claimed that Microsoft would release a version of Office for Apple’s smartphone. Time and again, the rumours have resurfaced, occasionally with images – and of course, the analyst community has frequently weighed in with its opinions on the matter too. Today though, …

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APACHE OFFICESPACE AND SAVING TIME Today we live in a digital world in which information can be communicated rapidly and efficiently. IT applications are everywhere in business and their great advantage is the way that they can lower costs. One way that costs can be lowered is in TIME SAVING.

To create and receive alerts for a list or library: 1. In the list or library where you want to create the alert, click the Library or List tab on the Ribbon. 2. In the Share & Track group, click Alert Me and then click Set alert on this library. (In a list, the command …

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Cloud computing requires a lot of compute power. Microsoft has been continuously expanding their datacenter footprints, as evidenced by their recent expansion into mainland China. However building a new datacenter is an extremely expensive proposition, so companies have been looking for ways to increase density while decreasing cost. During a discussion on Microsoft datacenter management …

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The last few months have been filled with discussion, criticism and – yes, believe it or not – even praise for Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 8. Not everyone is happy with the direction that Microsoft has taken with the platform, but it seems that everyone has an opinion on it. Perhaps the biggest single …

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Many Australian small businesses don’t have the technology required to support work away from the office. Out of Office Nation – a Telstra report based on a survey of more than 1,000 Australian small business owners – found that many work 20 hours per week away from company premises but are limited due to poor …

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