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As the second half 2014 rolls in, Microsoft is stepping up its warnings for approaching support deadlines for some of its key products, including Windows 7. “End of support” means there will be no more fixes or patches — paid or free, security or non-security — coming for specific products. (There are some temporary workarounds, as Windows XP …
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Microsoft has lifted the lid on its Office 365 for business roadmap, something that many of its customers have been asking for. Divided into four categories are most (though not all) of the features Microsoft intends to launch, roll out, develop (or cancel) on Office 365. Some are minor (like an update to OneNote for …
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Microsoft is hard at work on the next major update to Windows and we don’t mean Update 2. Threshold, as it is currently known, is a wave of updates coming to Windows and other platforms; much like how Blue brought new features across many of Microsoft’s key platforms. While it is still a little unclear if the Threshold …
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Microsoft has announced an updated version of its Windows Update/Microsoft Update (WU/MU) client that has already begun rolling out to users. The company says that the improvements are intended “to provide additional protection for customers”, and include “further hardening of infrastructure used by WU/MU client and a more secure communication channel between WU/MU Client and Service.” The update will be …
Microsoft bumped the OneDrive cloud storage for all Office 365 accounts to a whopping 1 TB. Microsoft raised the roof on its OneDrive storage this week. The new OneDrive capacities are still limited, but for most Office 365 users, the new OneDrive plans basically amount to unlimited online storage. In April, Microsoft increased the …
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Microsoft showed a brief glimpse of its upcoming touch-friendly Office apps for Windows at Build 2014 last month, but now it appears a better glance at the apps has leaked online. In a presentation from Microsoft Research, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Lync and Office tools for Windows 8.1 can be seen with interfaces somewhat different from what Microsoft showed at …
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ust a few weeks ago, Microsoft boosted up the storage space for OneDrive for Business user to 1TB. Today, the company announced that the website for the business-based file storage service has a new look and some new features. In a blog post, Microsoft said that the OneDrive for Business site now includes Simple Controls, which can …
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Microsoft is giving current users of its OneDrive for Business service a really big boost in file space. Starting today, the default cloud storage amount has been increased from 25GB to 1TB per user. The Office blog also reports that everyone who subscribes to Office 365 ProPlus will get access to 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage as well, again …
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Microsoft launched versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Apple’s iPad just over a month ago, but the number one missing feature was the ability to print documents from those apps. That has been finally rectified with the addition of printing support for all those apps in the first major update for Office for iPad. Microsoft’s …
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As we bid farewell to Windows XP, Microsoft has released a rather significant update to Windows 8.1. Sure the features may not be revolutionary, but for those of you who use a keyboard and mouse, the update is a big boost to functionality for the platform. The update is available now via Windows update and if …
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