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Microsoft, Windows Phone 8 hardware must keep up with the ti...

This is a question that I never thought I'd ask -- Is the hardware leaving Windows Phone 8 behind its fierce competition? In September last year, I asserted that "Windows Phone 8 is the best idea Microsoft has had in phone tech&q [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2013 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office 365: $1 Billion Reasons You Can’t Ignore It

Within Microsoft’s Q3 2013 earnings results (announced today), the company said Office 365 is now a $1 billion cloud business (using annual run rate figures). I’m not suggesting all MSPs (managed services providers) need to ru [...]

Posted On : Apr, 19 2013 | Comments : 0

Google Quickoffice App Now Supports Editing Microsoft Office...

Google has updated its Quickoffice iOS app with support for editing Microsoft Office documents on the iPhone. Quickoffice makes it easy to create, edit, and view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on your iPad and iPhone. This ve [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2013 | Comments : 0

Meet the Microsoft Office Luddites: Why power users won't li...

The future is in the cloud. Every traditional software company is pushing cloud services over programs you actually install, and even Microsoft, which formally completed its new, cloud-based Office 365 package in February, has included cl [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2013 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 down to £34.73, its cheap...

Head over to Kikatek to purchase Microsoft’s Windows Home Server 2011 (64-bit version) for £34.73 with free delivery. You can get it for even less (£32.99 at Ebuyer) but delivery is extra. The price of this operating sys [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2013 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office 2013 now on sale in the United States

As everyone expected, Microsoft Office 2013 is now on sale in the United States following launches in other territories (including Australia) several hours ago. Prospective buyers can head to the online Microsoft Store to purchase their c [...]

Posted On : Jan, 29 2013 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Launches “Next App Star” Competition For Windows P...

You know a mobile app store is still young and needs more content when the company behind it still writes its own blog posts when interesting new apps appear in it. With 150,000 apps, the Windows Phone store isn’t actually quite as [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2013 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office 365 Provides Partners With A Platform To Bu...

Cloud|AG is leveraging Office 365 as a platform that will fuel the company’s growth as a leading provider of cloud-based business collaboration applications. Cloud|AG’s first application, ServicePoint365, leverages Microsoft O [...]

Posted On : Jan, 02 2013 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Windows 8 Apps Hit 35,000; PC Sales Slow

Microsoft's (MSFT) new apps-based operating system Windows 8 is now gaining apps at a rate of 415 a day, an increased pace. Apps tracker MetroStore Scanner says Windows 8 now has 35,629 apps, having surpassed 35,000 on Thursday, as Th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2012 | Comments : 0

Rumor Has It: Microsoft Office finally coming to iOS in 2013

Rumors have been swirling for a long time about the possibility of Microsoft's Office suite coming to iOS, but new leaks point to this happening sometime in the next year. The biggest question we have about this rumor is: why hasn' [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

As Windows 8 Hits...HTC's Surprise Lift

The phone maker, who is the No. 2 Android phone in OZ, said unaudited revenue for November was NT$21.2bn – a 23% jump on October's figure. However, it marked a -31% slump compared to same time 2011. The good news comes as HTC [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Microsoft readies Office 365 University bundle for Q1 2013

Just when you thought you had seen a full list of all the new Office 365 releases that Microsoft will be rolling out over the next few months, another new SKU emerges. The Office 365 University offering, due in the first quarter of 2013, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

Microsoft wisely teams with Beijing to fight piracy

Despite Beijing's repeated efforts to stamp out piracy, the problem remains a major one in China, with companies large and small, public and private still engaging in a practice that costs software makers billions of dollars in lost s [...]

Posted On : Sep, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Raises Privacy Issues With Tweaked TOS

Once upon a time, or about two weeks ago, when talking about the new Skydrive.com and why versatility in cloud storage is so important, Microsoft stated, "We believe that your files are not just bits to be synced—and they'r [...]