Insights from Duane Campbell, a Microsoft coding legend who’s retiring after 28 years

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Duane Campbell is retiring from Microsoft today, after 28 years as a software developer with the company. Chances are you’ve never heard of him, even if you follow the company closely, and that’s one of the best parts of his story. Rather than following the traditional management and executive path that put some of his… Read More…

Office on iPad: Microsoft wrestling with $2.5B tradeoff

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Microsoft is forgoing as much as $2.5 billion a year in extra revenue by not yet putting a full-fledged version of its Office suite on Apple’s iPad. That’s the estimate by Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt, as reported by Fortune magazine today. There were a series of reports last year that Microsoft was working on… Read More…

Support documents show Microsoft Office coming to iPad

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It looks more and more like Microsoft Office is coming to Apple’s iPad. There have been rumors and screenshots of Office potentially coming to iOS devices, but now new documents at official French and Romanian Office support sites show references to an Office app for both the iPhone and iPad. First reported by French website mac4ever,… Read More…

$100 a year for Office: Microsoft unveils subscription rates

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Microsoft has been gradually releasing information regarding Windows 8, and all of the applications therein, since the start of 2012. One of the details we’ve been missing is the  pricing for Office 365, the suite that houses popular applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (among others). Today, the Redmond-based company officially unveiled the new pricing scheme for… Read More…

Facebook meets Excel: Microsoft seeks patent on social networking inside spreadsheets

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Last year, a Facebook application called HardlyWork.in made news by providing an alternative interface for the social network — putting a user’s Facebook news feed inside a fake Excel spreadsheet, aiming to make it easier for desk jockeys to discreetly check and post to Facebook while appearing to work. Turns out Microsoft has been thinking… Read More…

Simply Measured puts ‘Excel on steroids’ with new release

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Simply Measured CEO Adam Schoenfeld kind of sees his company as the “black sheep of the analytics space.” That’s because most analytics companies these days are trying to move users out of Excel, the popular Microsoft spreadsheet application used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. “We’d like to keep you there, and figure out… Read More…