All over the world, governments are intruding into our private lives in the name of safety and anti-terrorism. They talk about ‘metadata’ to make out that the information they are collecting isn’t that important. This ‘metadata’ will be collected, held for a long time and accessible by government agencies without
Microsoft has changed their Exchange Server hosting (under the Office 365 banner) to allow for longer holding of Deleted Items up to ‘forever’. Until now, Office 365 hosting had a fixed 30 days for Deleted Items retention. Any item in the Deleted Items folder older than 30 days was automatically
Back in 2014, Microsoft made Office 365, including Office software, available to many US students. The same program is now available globally. If the school buys Office software for their faculty and staff, the students get free Office 365 accounts. The program now covers, among many, 1.1 million students in
We’ve used Lenovo laptops for a long time, back when they were IBM computers. They are usually good machines with excellent keyboards, pricey but generally reliable. So it’s with great dismay they we’ve been reading about Lenovo and the ‘Superfish’ software that was installed on some of their computers in
We’ve been looking closely at the Outlook app for iOS and Android as well as online reviews and the many comments from Office-Watch.com readers. We’ve come to the conclusion that there are two different apps. The preview versions that the public are trying and there’s other, quite different, apps which
Rene Winkelmeyer was the first to detail the worrying and undocumented way the Outlook apps store your email account logins. Normal programs and apps keep your login details (server, name, password etc) encrypted on the computer or device. When needed the name/password is sent direct to the mail host to
I’m not sure how something can get better than free, but a marketing genius at Microsoft has done it. OneNote for Windows has been available free to all comers since 2014 but with some features blocked and only accessible in the paid versions. Now more of the features have been
We love words, especially old words that have been largely forgotten. This Valentine’s Day there’s a short item in The Independent UK about 10 old words that modern romantics might like to revive. We tried them out in Office 2013 to see if the in-built dictionary could cope. No real surprise that
Would you like a peek at the next version of Microsoft Office for Windows? Well you can, if you’re willing to take a risk and play by Microsoft’s rules. Office 2016 (also called Office 365 Desktop) Technical Preview is now available for download. Details on how to do that are
Press Release: The Innovative New Add-In Allows People to Securely Post Letters Directly from Microsoft Word Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) February 10, 2015 SnappyStamp, a Microsoft Word add-in that allows people to quickly, easily and securely post letters to anywhere in the world, is now officially launched and available. As Greg
A substantially improved and upgraded Organizing Outlook Email ebook is available right now. The 3rd edition goes deep into Outlook 2013/2010 & 2007 with new ways to get the most out of your email. The Third Edition is totally updated and revised to cover Outlook 2013/2010 & 2007 email management in detail. There are all sorts
A few questions from readers about their ISP (Internet Service Provider) based email service that comes with their internet access. We’ll try to explain what normally happens. Keep in mind that each ISP has it’s own rules so you should check with them. Michael B writes: “Once I switch to RoadRunner,
The Outlook app for iOS and Android is a ‘preview’ release, meaning it’s not a fully tested release, ready for the general public. But some people at Microsoft don’t realize that and are promoting it as a fully public release. The app itself is called ‘Microsoft Outlook Preview’ and the
If you thought email scams were all about Nigerian princes and unknown lottery wins, think again. An Omaha man has lost his job after being tricked into sending $17 million of company funds to scammers. The tricksters sent emails that appeared to come from the CEO and its auditors, but
After years of teasing, Microsoft has today released beta versions of their touch interface Office applications. These are proper touch interface versions of Office programs, not the lame ‘touch’ button in Office 2013 which merely makes the ribbon spacing larger. For Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, there’s now beta versions
Also from NeoWin are some screen shots from Office 2016. They don’t reveal a lot but are still interesting. Here’s the Word 2016 ribbon with the Word 2013 ribbon below for comparison. The Office 2016 example uses the Black theme which Microsoft seems to unduly love these days. Redmond hopes
Neowin has leaked some details from the latest private test version of Office 2016, the next full version of Office. It’s not a full list of the changes, not by a long shot. Many of them are quite detailed but some will be welcome by everyone; some changes to the
*Goireas-taice litreachaidh ri fhaotainn ann an Gàidhlig a-nis airson Microsoft Office Hot on the heels of Burns Night, Microsoft has today announced that Scottish Gaelic is the latest addition to the 95 languages and dialects supported by proofing functionality in Microsoft Office. It means that 60,000 speakers of the language
We ignored all the hype and spin to spend some time ourselves with the new Outlook app on various devices. Here’s what we’ve found so far … Microsoft has released its own Outlook app, it’s hyped as a combined email, calendar and contacts app. You might like to get the
Microsoft has released preview/beta test versions of a standalone ‘Outlook’ app for Apple and Android devices. The apps aim to give one unified place to view email, calendar, contacts, and attachments from cloud based email storage. Anything with Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) or IMAP is compatible Exchange (either from Microsoft’s Office
After a public preview and some bug fixes, the three major Office programs are now available for some Android tablets. Microsoft Word for Android, Excel for Android and PowerPoint for Android are now available from Google Play. There’s also an OneNote app already available. If you’ve installed the preview/beta versions
Microsoft has officially launched an Office Proofing Tool/spell checker for the Scottish Gaelic language. It’s been done by Bòrd na Gàidhlig, the statutory language authority in Scotland, and was announced by Microsoft during a meeting at the Scottish Parliament. Scottish Gaelic has only 60,000 speakers so an Office spell checker
Here’s how to troubleshoot your Outlook connections to POP, IMAP and SMTP accounts. Outlook has a ‘Test Account Settings’ button that makes testing a lot easier (also Auto Configuration for many accounts). It’s there when you setup or change account settings. Click on the button and Outlook will try to
It’s hard to move from an email account you’ve used for years, but there’s a simple way to make the move easier. The main reason why Internet Service Providers give email accounts with all their connections (dial-up or broadband) is to make it harder for you to switch to another
