Microsoft’s Project Natick now has two live camera feeds showing fish around their underwater data centers. One of the big problems for server farms is heat. All those computers generate a lot of heat that must be dissipated somehow. Microsoft’s servers store your OneDrive files, Azure data, run Office cloud
Microsoft is rearranging, rerouting, it’s ‘Roadmap’ for the future of Office into a merged ‘Roadmap’ for Microsoft products including Windows and Office. The Office 365 Roadmap is joining with Windows, Azure and other products to become the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (more like a multi-lane superhighway with complex interchanges) Artists impression
Microsoft has released their Whiteboard app for Windows 10. While it’s better than last year’s preview app it has a lot of problems and a fatal flaw which makes it impossible for anyone except those with a childlike trust in Microsoft. We were harsh about the preview version, it was
If you get an error message when trying to activate Microsoft Office, settle in for a difficult time. Microsoft doesn’t make activation easy to understand, let alone fix activation problems. Office activation is where newly installed Office software is authorized by Microsoft’s servers. Without activation the software only has very
When you buy Microsoft Office there’s no CD or DVD with the software to install. The vital thing you’re getting is the Product Key. The Product Key is that the 25 character code which unlocks or activates the software. This applies to both Office 365 ‘subscriptions’ or single-purchase Microsoft Office packages.
The latest Office 2016 Insiders release version 1808, Build 10730.20030 shows off some upcoming additions to Outlook, Access, Project and Visio Outlook – block forwarding in meeting invitations When making a meeting invitation in Outlook, go to Response Options and deselect ‘Allow Forwarding’ to stop that invitation being forwarded to
After the report of buying illegal Microsoft Office via Amazon (and Amazon’s initially poor response) here’s what to do if you’ve bought an illegal, pirated or at least non-working Office Product Key. Credit Card as separate transaction Whenever possible, pay by credit card. The MS Office purchase should be a
After our recent Excel worksheet for visitors to Europe we were asked for a similar one to help people stay onside with the UK Statutory Residence Test (SRT). This is a test to decide if someone is a UK resident for tax purposes. Depending on the situation, a person can
“More of the same” in August 2018’s round of security fixes for Microsoft products including Windows, Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Overall there a sixty security flaws fixed this month alone, including two ‘zero-day’ bugs not previously known to the public. We’ve all become accustomed to this never-ending stream of
There’s a series of August 2018 patches under the broad heading ‘Microsoft Office Defense in Depth update’ which seems to be obscure important changes in Outlook 2010 through 2016. ADV180021 is called “Microsoft Office Defense in Depth Update” and “Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Office that provides enhanced
Here’s the sad tale of a Californian woman who bought a pirated copy of Microsoft Office from an Amazon retailer and the hassle she had getting Amazon to do the right thing. There’s a happy ending but only because a local TV station intervened. That’s not an option for all
There are a dozen bug fixes for the Windows versions of Word 2016 buried among the non-security updates for Microsoft Office this month. And an extra feature for PowerPoint 2016 and 2013 for Windows. We’ll look at this important Word 2016 update first before listing the other bug fixes for
Almost unnoticed among the August 2018 updates are some new options for linking online videos into PowerPoint 2016 and PowerPoint 2013 presentations to Vimeo and LinkedIn as well as YouTube. Until now, only YouTube videos were supported. Now it’s now possible to link to videos from Vimeo LinkedIn SlideShare YouTube
Microsoft seems to be moving towards a name change for ‘Office 2016’. They haven’t announced anything directly, but their documentation is changing for Windows and perhaps Office for Mac as well. If you’re confused, don’t feel bad because Redmond isn’t making it easy. They are moving gradually towards naming Microsoft
You can quickly apply some Word styles from the Quick Access Toolbar we’ll show how to add the classic Style menu, buttons for Headings and Normal style. And we’ll explain a better alternative. The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) can have a more useful Style menu than the one Microsoft puts
The next macOS release will include a tool to migrate Outlook for Windows data to Outlook for Mac. The upcoming macOS release codenamed Mojave will have an improved Windows Migration Assistant. Apple says it will include more third-party programs including Microsoft Outlook. The news came via a sharp-eyed Twitter user
The August Insiders update for Word and PowerPoint for Android have improved Zoom features plus another option is entirely missing! We’ve tested these features to see how they really work, assuming the promoted features are there at all. Office Watch hasn’t taken Microsoft at their word. We’ve tried out the
Microsoft has announced a 10% price increase for the Office 2019 commercial / volume licences. Sorry, it’s not an increase it’s a ‘price adjustment’ <sigh>. Office 2019 client, Enterprise CAL, Core CAL, and Office 2019 server products are all up 10% from 1 October 2018. These are all single-payment /
You’ve probably seen the headlines about the new ‘Outlook’ Dark Mode but there’s much less to this feature than all the hype suggests. It only applies to one of the many ” Outlook’s ” out there. We’ll explain what Dark Mode is, which Outlook it applies to and how to
A few weeks ago we told you Facebook is considering a defection from Microsoft’s Office 365, that was just one player in a much bigger game for office software and cloud related services. Google is pressing hard to get as many as possible Fortune 500 companies signed up to their
A teenager from Auckland, New Zealand has won the World Microsoft PowerPoint championship for 2018. Tristan Mona beat over 760,000 other competitors from 100 countries in the finals held in Florida, USA. He’s the first person from ‘Ennzed’ to win a coveted Microsoft Office Specialist title. For his troubles, Tristan
There are better ways to move about a document than scrolling up and down. Word has some nifty navigation tricks that’ll have you moving around a document like a city bicycle courier! We’ll skip the more obvious ones that are covered in most texts and explain the navigation tips less
The Edinburgh International Festival is just one of the August festivals in the city. They have some methods of adding their show information into Outlook but with some traps along the way. On the My Festivals page for each account, use the ICS Calendar Link to get a list of
If you love drama, comedy or music then you’d love Edinburgh, Scotland during August. It’s a busy, busy time with so much going on that you’ll need your online calendar and Outlook to keep track of everything. In this and other articles, we’ll give you a practical guide to managing
