Microsoft has released the customer preview of its latest version of Microsoft Office, which will be cloud-based and work best on Windows 8. Steve Ballmer announced the preview, claiming Office 2013 will provide consumers and businesses ...
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Computerworld-Apple and Microsoft are arguing over the iOS App Store's submission and payment requirements,and Microsoft has already made concessions as it tries to get its SkyDrive app approved,support discussions show. The dispute ...
GoodSync is single-minded:It's intended to provide automatic synchronization and backup across folders and remote volumes.That narrow focus has two repercussions.First,the utility offers exhaustive,rich,and deep support for an array of ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft has confirmed what many had suspected,that it didn't offer a 16GB Surface RT tablet because there would have been virtually no room for customer content on the device. According to a FAQ published Monday,a 32GB ...
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Microsoft makes more than$300 on each Surface RT tablet it sells,showing that the company has adopted the business model of its rival,Apple,analysts said yesterday. According to IHS iSuppli,which disassembled a 32GB Surface to estimate ...
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A new set of terms and conditions has been sent to existing users of Microsoft's online services–including Hotmail,SkyDrive,Messenger,Bing,MSN and Office.com–that effectively prohibits a user from filing a class action lawsuit ...
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Computerworld - Mac owners want Microsoft to update Office for Mac so it supports Retina-equipped MacBook Pros because they say the suite is unusable as it is. "The whole suite look absolutely dreadful," said someone identified as "James" ...
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Microsoft has rebranded the Hotmail service to become Outlook.com. Currently in preview, Outlook.com is being heralded as a re-imagined email service by Microsoft. Further reading Microsoft admits to angering partners with Surface ...
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Microsoft has announced it is revamping and renaming its free webmail service,which analysts say may be aimed at winning over users of Google's rival Gmail service. The revamped service,to be known as Outlook.com,will automatically sort ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft on Tuesday began publicly previewing a new webmail service for consumers called Outlook.com that will eventually replace Hotmail. Microsoft also expects that Outlook.com will draw people away from competing ...
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IDG News Service - , which Microsoft is positioning as a reinvention of its Hotmail and of competing consumer webmail services, appears at first glance more evolutionary than groundbreaking, according to several industry analysts. "This ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft's rebranding of Hotmail as Outlook.com is a move by the company to hold its first-place position in free email while pushing the domain as more of a consumer destination,an analyst said today. Earlier ...
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SkyDrive seemed destined to be another Microsoft also-ran product.Although introduced long before the current wave of cloud-based synchronization and storage services,SkyDrive had a number of frustrating limits,and comprised two separately ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made an off-handed remark in calling Office 2013"magical,"a comment often cited of Apple products.But this time around it seems Microsoft got some stuff right,according to testers. Microsoft's latest version of ...
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Microsoft is test driving a new version of its Office Web Apps suite,whose applications are hosted by the vendor and accessed by users via a web browser. Improvements in the suite,which includes online versions of Word,Excel,PowerPoint ...
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