Kicking off what may be the company's most challenging marketing effort yet, Microsoft has launched its next generation operating system, Windows 8, in New York City. "Windows 8 shatters perceptions of what a PC really is," said Microsoft ...
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Monday, Microsoft unwrapped the next edition of its Office money maker at a press event and simultaneously launched a public preview for users to try out now. CEO Steve Ballmer touted the new software as "the most ambitious release of ...
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Microsoft must aggressively price its Office 365 subscription plans, perhaps as low as $2 a month, to convince consumers that it's better to rent software than to buy it, analysts said today. When CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives ...
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Computerworld - Although customers who subscribe to Office 365 will be able to install and run Office for Mac as part of the five-copies-per-plan deal, the Mac suite will sport few changes, Microsoft has said. Unlike Office on Windows, ...
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Computerworld - With the upcoming release of Office 2013, Microsoft is putting a lot of focus on the cloud. Industry analysts say that's exactly what Microsoft needs to do to compete head-to-head with Google and its cloud-based office ...
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The next version of Microsoft Office, unveiled on Monday, is a dramatic departure from the software that millions of users have come to know, built for the cloud and for touch-based computing and packed with features that make it more ...
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Apple on Monday began reminding some iCloud users that they will soon lose the 20GB of free storage they'd received when they migrated from MobileMe. The company has notified iCloud customers via email that the 20GB will expire Sunday, ...
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Outlook.com, the new webmail service that Microsoft is previewing and that will replace Hotmail, has gained security boosts against phishing and spam. The new safety features come via support for the DMARC email authentication standard ...
Attachments.me, which lets Gmail users send attachments to and access files on several cloud storage services, now also works with Microsoft’s SkyDrive. To add support for SkyDrive, Attachments.me is taking advantage of some recent ...
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Windows 8 launches Friday, and even if you haven’t been paying attention it’s still not too late to catch up on the essentials of what’s new and significant about the operating system. Here are some frequently asked ...
Windows 8 is finally here and the stakes are sky high for Microsoft. “We’re so happy to be here today and to celebrate the global availability of a new era of Windows and Windows-powered PCs,” said Steven Sinofsky, ...
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Microsoft has given a makeover to its SkyDrive cloud storage service, including a new Web interface, as well as improvements to its desktop applications and developer API, the company announced on Tuesday. It's not surprising that ...
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Microsoft yesterday clarified that Mac users will not be able to download and install a copy of Office for Mac 2011 as one of the five licenses allowed by the new Office 365 subscription plans. The news may make the subscription deals, ...
Apple and Microsoft are embroiled in a fight over the SkyDrive app for iPhones and iPads, a skirmish that has left users caught in the middle. According to The Next Web, Apple has blocked updates to the SkyDrive app ever since Microsoft ...
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Buyers of computers running Windows RT, the Windows 8 version for ARM-based devices, will receive at no additional cost a version of Office that will become available in multiple languages between November and January. The devices, ...
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