Jun 19, 2015 | Android, Apple, Google, Microsoft, phone, Skype, video, web_services
Microsoft wants Skype to be everywhere. It got a little over-zealous with a poorly-designed version of Skype for Windows 8 that never caught on and is being discontinued, but it rallied this week with a new version of Skype that runs in a web browser. Skype was...
Jun 14, 2015 | Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, iPad, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, phone, tablet, web_services
Previously: The Threat That Nearly Destroyed Microsoft Office Microsoft opened the Office programs to third party cloud services in February. Since then, connections have been added at a dizzying pace for directly accessing files stored in other services. Dropbox and...
Jun 11, 2015 | Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, phone, software, tablet
Microsoft is continuing an aggressive push to ensure that Word, Excel and Powerpoint continue to be the standard business file formats as we move into a new world of mobile devices and files stored online in a variety of services. Recent examples: Dropbox has added...
Jun 3, 2015 | Microsoft, software, Windows Phone 8, Windows8
Alas, poor MSN Travel! We knew it well. That’s not true. If we had paid any attention to it, it would probably still be alive. At some point in the last month, Microsoft gutted MSN Travel, one of the apps created as a showcase for the new program designs in Windows 8...
May 31, 2015 | Microsoft, updates, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8
You may see a new Windows icon appear in your taskbar soon, alerting you to the upcoming release of Windows 10. Microsoft just began to activate the notices on Sunday, and all Windows 7 & 8 users will see them eventually. Here’s what you need to know about Windows...
May 26, 2015 | Microsoft, software, Vista, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8, WinXP
Windows 10 is being tested by millions of people as it enters its final development phase before being released later this summer. Its technical underpinnings are solid and mature. There are genuinely innovative new features. It will be given away for free to more...
