Jul 1, 2015 | Microsoft, software, updates, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8
Do not – do NOT – upgrade your computer to Windows 10 for at least 30-60 days after it launches. Please tell your employees not to upgrade right away. Tell your friends and relatives. I’m dead serious. Spread the word far and wide. Your computer will not be updated...
Jun 28, 2015 | Microsoft, updates, Windows tips, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8
Windows 10 will be released on July 29. You should look forward to it. It’s all good news. Microsoft has been working to combine the best features of Windows 7 and Windows 8 into a single new operating system. There is every reason to hope that Windows 10 will be the...
Jun 25, 2015 | Android, Box, Dropbox, iPad, Microsoft, mobile, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, phone
Word, Excel and Powerpoint apps are now available for Android phones, joining OneNote and Outlook. The Office programs are already available on iPhones, iPads and Android tablets. The first phase of Microsoft’s Office Everywhere strategy is now complete; the Office...
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...
