Microsoft says it has begun switching Hotmail accounts to Outlook.com as it officially launches its revamped email service. Microsoft's move follows a test phase in which it adapted the service to try and better serve lifestyles that ...
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The Microsoft Surface Pro delivers on its promise to provide the most laptop-like performance yet from a tablet. But like most groundbreaking devices, it has flaws—including limited storage and hefty weight and size—that mean ...
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Buyers of Windows 8 smartphones need to check that apps that offer vital functionality on their iPhone and Android devices are available for their new Microsoft-inspired handset. Apps can be either missing, of relatively poor quality ...
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Budget phones can be miserable affairs. Poor screen and camera resolution, terrible keyboards and hand-me-down technology can make a user feel like the character in Barbra Streisand's 60s hit Second Hand Rose. This isn't so with Nokia's ...
Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service now has one billion Office documents stored in it, the company announced today. While a billion may seem like a lot, the most popular consumer cloud storage service, Dropbox, has more than ...
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Microsoft announced on Friday that its SkyDrive cloud storage service now plays host to one billion Office documents. While a billion may seem like a lot, the most popular consumer cloud storage service, Dropbox, has more than 100,000,000 ...
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Office 365 Home Premium for Windows 8 brings with it massive change, possibly the biggest since Office 2003. But the change is not so much about adding Windows 8 touchscreen capability to Office. Sure, it's there, but Office 365HP is ...
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Office 365 Home Premium for Windows 8 brings with it massive change, possibly the biggest since Office 2003. But the change is not so much about adding Windows 8 touchscreen capability to Office. Sure, it's there, but Office 365HP is ...
Microsoft's low-end Surface Pro tablet, slated to start shipping Feb. 9, sports just 23GB of free storage space out of the box, Microsoft confirmed today. The 64GB Surface Pro, which will sell for $899, uses more than 60% of its flash ...
Microsoft this week launched the first two of its new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for Office. The company's rarely-shy CEO Steve Ballmer called the sales approach "an entirely new way to think about the productivity experience," and ...
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Microsoft's new pay-as-you-go Office 365 subscription plans differ from traditional buy-once software in one important aspect: When customers stop paying, the applications stop working. Although that makes sense -- Office isn't freeware ...
As expected, Microsoft today updated Office for Mac 2011 to work with the new Office 365 Home Premium software-by-subscription plan the company debuted Tuesday. The update, dubbed both 14.3 and Service Pack 3 (SP3), includes several fixes ...
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Microsoft will begin selling worldwide on Tuesday the new consumer version of the Office suite, making it available both via a subscription model and perpetual licenses. Consumers have historically bought Office in the traditional way, ...
Australian subscribers will pay $119 per year for what Microsoft calls its Office 365 Home Premium - more than US subscribers who will pay $US100 per year. Its release comes six months after Microsoft previewed the new-look Office, which ...
A year to the day after his Megaupload sites were shuttered by the U.S. Department of Justice for copyright infringement, Kim Dotcom will launch a new file-sharing site offering 50GB of free space to members. Dotcom posted the ...