Last week, Microsoft reopened its Envisioning Center in its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, which presented the company’s view of how technology would enter the workplace and the home in the near future. This week, Microsoft offered up a specific future technology idea that could be used in business settings. The BBC reports that the project, …
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Microsoft launched Office 365 Home Premium a month ago but today it’s all about the business world for the company’s cloud software suite. As promised, Microsoft has launched new versions of Office 365 for small, medium and large businesses. Microsoft’s press release said the number of small and midsize businesses that have decided to use …
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Office 2013 and Office 365 Home Premium have received a lot of attention lately, for good reason, but this week Microsoft finally announced that it has added some new features to its free Office Web Apps programs. The updates were revealed in a new post on the Office blog and include a way for users …
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For the past few months, the online ad company AdDuplex has posted up data gathered from their network that showed how many Windows 8 and Windows RT products were out in the world, along with which ones were the most popular. The last such update in January showed the Surface RT tablet from Microsoft was …
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Microsoft has been pushing for consumers to try out Office 365 Home Premium, which lets people install the new Office 2013 suite of software products on up to five PCs for the price of $99.99 a year. But what if you just want one copy of Office 2013 on one PC, and then wanted to …
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“Don’t bother coming in on Friday.” When the chief sends out a message like that, company-wide, it is generally regarded as very bad news. It could well be followed by locked front doors and repossession notices on Monday. But not at Microsoft. On Friday, anyone stubborn enough to turn up for work at the offices …
Using Version Control in SharePoint Problem When you store critical documents in the SharePoint libraries, sometimes it becomes necessary to track all the changes and to maintain version history for them. Solution There might be a time when you would need to restore files back to an older version if any inadvertent change happens. You …
Microsoft launched the Surface Pro tablet on Saturday and while the company is selling the tablet with the Touch and Type Covers as optional accessories, it’s clear that Microsoft considers a physical keyboard of some kind to be an important aspect of the Surface line-up. It begs the question of why didn’t Microsoft just go …
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It looks like people who want to get the Surface Pro tablet want as much hard drive space as possible. The Microsoft Store website in the US is now showing that the $999 128 GB version of the Windows 8 Pro tablet is now showing as “out of stock” just hours after it first went …
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If the latest rumor is to be believed, Microsoft is apparently having a “meaningful look” into producing a full native port of Office to Linux, with 2014 being a possible launch year. Open source veteran Michael Larabel heard from a source at the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) about Microsoft’s plans, …
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