According to reports, a new, touchscreen iteration of Microsoft’s flagship Office productivity software may be hitting the iPad before it’s touchscreen counterpart is released for Windows. The Office for iPad software, which is apparently codenamed ‘Miramar’, was first hinted at by Steve Ballmer last year – and a report by ZDNet seems to corroborate that. …
Microsoft adds multi-factor authentication to Office 365 business plans
Microsoft continues to add multi-factor authentication support to its software products and services. Today, the company announced that it has added this much requested feature to business and academic users of Office 365. In a post on the Office blog, Microsoft states: Multi-factor authentication increases the security of user logins for cloud services above and beyond just …
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Microsoft makes Power BI generally available for all Office 365 users
Microsoft first announced its plans to launch Power BI for Office 365 and Excel users in April 2013. Today, the company revealed that Power BI is now generally available for all Office 365 users, after launching as a preview version in the summer of 2013. Power BI has been designed to give Excel users a new and …
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Microsoft announces general availability of Access apps in Office 365
Microsoft today announcedAccess apps in Office 365 are generally available for Office 365 Small Business, Midsize, Enterprise, and Education customers. Although Office 365 general availability was announced in February 2013, Access apps were in preview and weren’t supported under the Office 365 service-level agreement (SLA) and compliance standards. Now they’re officially out for everyone, except Office 365 …
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Microsoft Pricing for office professional pushes users online with Office 365
As expected, Microsoft is pricing its next-generation Office 2013 line-up in a way to try to convince users to pay an annual subscription fee — with multiple-device-installation rights as a carrot — instead of buying the Office 2013 software outright. Microsoft is believed to be ready to launch its next-generation Office product within the next …
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Internet Explorer still provides the best laptop and tablet battery life
While Internet Explorer is often treated as the red-headed step child of web browsers, there is one area in which Microsoft’s browser has traditionally reigned supreme, battery life. Microsoft’s own research has demonstrated IE’s power efficiency, and recent test results from the website 7tutorials have once again proved that IE enables user to eke out …
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Microsoft reveals new People View for Outlook Web App
Late on Wednesday, Microsoft revamped the UI for its various free Office Web Apps, making changes to the title bar and Ribbon interface. Today, the company revealed it will be adding a new feature to its Outlook Web App that will also include a change to its design. The new addition is called People …
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Microsoft starts rolling out new Surface Pro 2 firmware to some users
Some Surface Pro 2 owners are reporting that Microsoft has quietly released a new firmware update for the recent Windows 8.1 tablet this weekend, about a month after the last such patch was pulled by the company after installation and battery issues were discovered by some owners. ZDNet reports that some Surface Pro 2 users have reported receiving …
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"Threshold" to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015
At the BUILD developer conference in April 2014, Microsoft will discuss its vision for the future of Windows, including a year-off release codenamed “Threshold” that will most likely be called Windows 9. Here’s what I know about the next major release of Windows. As a kind of recap, we know that Microsoft will update Windows 8.1 …
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Microsoft finally fixes Windows XP SVCHOST bug
For the past several months, we have been checking on a bug in Windows XP that has caused SVCHOST to push the CPU of a PC up to 100 percent usage for some users. Microsoft tried in November to fix the issue but was unsuccessful. However, the company pledged to continue to work on fixing the bug, which it stated …
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