Microsoft is meeting with hundreds of public officials in Redmond starting this morning for its U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit, trying to make inroads for Windows 8, Office 365 and other new products from the company. The conference comes as Google Apps and Apple’s iPad make progress at schools and public agencies, creating new competition… Read More…
Microsoft is offering budget-minded U.S. college students a chance to try its new Office 365 University subscription for three months for free — and an additional three months if they also share information about the trial with their Facebook friends. It’s part of a broader effort by Microsoft to fend off Google and create new momentum for… Read More…
Microsoft this morning released a new version of Office 365 for businesses and said the paid subscription service has become one of the fastest-growing businesses in the company’s history — now used by 20 percent of its largest customers, up from 15 percent a year ago. This is the latest step in the company’s move to… Read More…
Microsoft just scooped up a big deal for its Office 365 suite of cloud-based productivity products, inking a deal with the Texas Department of Information Resources. As part of the deal, more than 100,000 employees for the state of Texas — from agencies suchHealth and Human Services System to the Department of Transportation to the Department… Read More…
Foiled by storage space! My, how appropriate. Tuesday I signed up for the free trial of the new Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium (wow that’s a mouthful). The newest version of the perennial office applications suite launched yesterday morning, with a new subscription option for consumers, and I figured I’d give it a try, since,… Read More…
Steve Ballmer has made a habit of publicly downplaying competitors right before they eat Microsoft’s lunch. His comments about the iPhone in 2007 will be cited in business school case studies for years to come. Did he just do it again with Dropbox? The Microsoft CEO was speaking to Bloomberg Businessweek about the release of the… Read More…
SkyKick, a Seattle startup designed to help businesses easily move to Office 365, confirmed with GeekWire that it has raised $1.1 million. The company will continue investing in research and development, build out its cloud technology platform and serve its small business customer base. SkyKick is formerly known as CloudVisors, which launched in April 2011. The company… Read More…
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…
Microsoft is giving its first public glimpse of the next version of Office today, showing off an overhauled interface and new features intended to make Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and other traditional programs work on touch-screen tablets as well as computers with keyboards and mice. But some of the biggest changes are in the way… Read More…
[Post updated below with Microsoft statement and fix.] People using Android devices with Microsoft’s Office 365 online service have been lighting up the Office 365 support forums this week with reports of a glitch that’s preventing some users from receiving emails via Microsoft’s ActiveSync on certain Android versions. For all of them, the problems began… Read More…
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