The Office 2010 Starter edition won’t continue for Office 2013 but not for the reason Microsoft says. The Office 2010 Starter Edition, included with some new computers, won’t be returning for Office 2013. According to Microsoft the Starter Edition isn’t compatible with Windows 8 so they can’t have an Office 2013 Starter Edition. That might […]
Microsoft scoops up Yammer for inclusion in a future Office. The social networking for business site Yammer.com has been bought by Microsoft for $1.2billion dollars allowing inclusion of the product in a future release of Office and Sharepoint, Yammer was started in 2008 and is promoted as “The First and Most Powerful Enterprise Social Network”. […]
Screen sharing is still free with Skype, but you’d not know it from Microsoft’s weasel words. One of the best features in Skype is screen sharing – the ability to send some or your entire computer screen to your caller, instead of video from a webcam. This feature is still free in the latest version […]
Watch a hard drive at work, in slow motion and soaking wet. Here’s a clever video, showing the innards of a hard drive at work in slow motion. Hard drives work at very fast speeds as you’ll see. Also worth mentioning that the hard drive arm is passing over the high-speed platters with about 3 nanometers […]
Microsoft’s Surface offers a new way to buy and use Office. After the super-secret prelude, Microsoft announced what most commentators said they would – a tablet device made by Microsoft to rival the iPad – called Surface. Surface with Windows and Office in one bundle represents a new way to buy Office and a new […]
