With Windows 8.1 for Surface RT comes a new Outlook – what’s it like? If you have a Surface RT device then there’s an update to Windows 8.1 available* and within that is a new Office program – Outlook RT. The ‘RT’ versions of Office programs look much like the traditional Windows programs but have […]
Office 365 and Exchange Online users get double mailbox size for no extra charge. Microsoft has announced a major increase in the mailbox size for Office 365 / Exchange Online customers. For most people this means their mailbox can now grow past 25GB to 50GB. That’s a lot of space even for the most aggressive […]
There’s no nice way to say it – this month’s Office 2013 update is, in military speak, ‘Fubar’ With the usual collection of security patches this month, Microsoft released an update to Office 2013 with various fixes and adding one major bug that amazingly managed to get through testing. The update is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817630/ which has […]
An online tool from MIT helps you see what the government can see. The Media Lab at MIT has an online service which shows how revealing ‘metadata’ or ‘identifiers’ collected by the US government can really be. Microsoft, the US government and others defending the controversial PRISM program have been relying on the subtle difference […]
There’s several spam checks of incoming email, which one is working for you. As we’ve mentioned before in Office-Watch.com, there’s usually more than one anti-spam filter on incoming messages. If those filter don’t work or are too aggressive you might miss out of messages you want to see. Typically an email is sent to your […]