ZDnet is reporting that an ebay merchant is offering an Office 365 Personal subscription for $29.99. The ebay item is here and we’re wary about it. Many have been sold (1,154 as we type this) and there’s good feedback both for the merchant and the Office 365 purchases. An Office
Yet one more for the list of things you’d never thought you’d see from Microsoft. They now have a deal with major Android phone and tablet makers to include Office software in some of their products. That’s right, Microsoft is paying companies to put their software on non-Windows devices. At
If you have an Office 365 ProPlus, Business Premium or Enterprise E3 licence (that means business users) you can now try out an early version of Office 2016 for Windows. It’s officially called the “Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview”. You can go to Microsoft Connect for details and
If you think that civilization is coming to an end, here’s confirmation. There’s now a book of Word porn, strictly speaking Clippy Porn. Now available on Kindle is Conquered by Clippy: An Erotic Short Story It’s a 4,000 word short story featuring a giant living paperclip. As the blurb explains
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
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
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
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
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
Microsoft has joined with Communities In Schools (CIS) to get Microsoft Office into the hands of a million students and CIS staff across the USA. It’s a three year arrangement between Microsoft, ‘technology partner’ COMPAREX and CIS which applies to students in 25 US states plus Washington D.C. The students
Microsoft has released its results for the last quarter of 2014 (aka Q2 2015) with their push towards Office 365 subscriptions/rental annual fees growing strength. According to the company, there are now over 9.2 million people who have moved from the ‘single pay’ Office option to the heavily pushed Office 365
Hot on heels of the Windows 10 demonstration was a Microsoft post with more images of the new touch-capable Office for Windows 10 apps. In all these images you can see the ‘Universal’ Windows 10 apps at work. You’re seeing the same program running on different size screens and adapting
Microsoft has now confirmed what was long suspected; later in 2015 we’ll see two new versions of Microsoft Office. Office 2016 An update to the main Office suite for 32/64 bit Windows. The successor to Office 2013, Office 2010 and so on. Office for Windows 10. A new set of
Seems everyone with a web page has thoughts on Windows 10 based on just a carefully planned demo from Microsoft. Many of the comments have taken Microsoft’s statements at face value without any critical eye. We won’t go into detail, we have MS Office to deal with, but here’s some
John Harcourt-Rigg writes …. “Could you tell me why Microsoft do not offer a similar discount programme for users of Microsoft Office 365 that users receive in USA. That is a discount for: Serving Members, and retired Military Veterans Australian VETS have served side by side with USA veterans in
UPDATE: we’ve totally updated this article see How to get a refund of Office 365 With the release of the ‘free’ Office for iPhone/iPad apps with many editing features, there’s probably some unhappy Office 365 subscribers out there. If you bought Office 365 for the editing features in Office for iPad
We’ve already mentioned that the ‘free’ Office Mobile apps (for iPhone, iPad and soon Android) actually have some features that are only available to Office 365 subscribers … but what? The editing options available in the current apps is quite extensive and surprisingly generous. For most people, they’ll be able
As part of the Outlook for Mac release, Microsoft has indicated their Office for Mac plans. A new Office for Mac (Office 2015 for Mac?) will be released in the second half of 2015. Office 365 subscribers/renters will be able to switch to the new Office for Mac at no
The Office rumor mill has been running hot this week. Office for Android Plenty of rumors that Office for Android is coming soon, possibly in early November. If that’s the case it can’t come soon enough for Office users. If Office for Android is as good as Office for iPad
Microsoft has really made Office 365 more compelling by raising their online OneDrive storage from 1 Terabyte to Unlimited for Office 365 subscribers. If you have Office 365 Personal, Home, University or Business account, the OneDrive storage limit will be effectively removed entirely. For Home subscribers, shared among several people,
An iOS 8 trap for iPad users who have an external video connection cable. Many people have a little plug-in for their iPad that lets them put the video on any HDMI display … like most monitors and TV sets. This is great for anyone who needs big screen support,
WinBeta is reporting that emails are going out to people who qualify for the next step in Office software testing. This marks a major step in the progress to yet another version of Office. A few months ago Microsoft asked people to ‘indicate interest’. Now they appear to have culled
