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Outlook.com Premium (that usually costs either $20 or $50 a year) is being added as another feature of Office 365 Home or Personal bundles. Microsoft said that their top level Outlook.com would become part of Office 365 Home/Personal but haven’t done anything in the six months since that hint was dropped. Now an Outlook.com promo […]
There are at least SEVEN different versions of Office 2016 for Windows that are available at any time. Here’s a quick guide to each and how to tell what you have. Microsoft has three different ways to install Office 2016 for Windows plus various preview and feature bundles. If you’re confused, join the club <sigh>. […]
The Office 365 version of Word 2016 for Windows has some nice improvements to LatTex support. LaTeX is the maths boffins preferred way of writing formula in computer code for conversion into the symbols that confuse us mere humans. In Word 2016 (Windows, Office 365 users only), you can see some extras on the Equation […]
Can you believe it? Clippy, the unloved spawn of Office 97 is returning. Eros Fratini is a developer with, presumably, a perverse sense of humor. He’s created a Visual Studio add in which lets developers make Clippy part of their projects. Get it from GitHub. Oh joy, we can hardly wait. According to Microsoft’s revisionist history, […]
Ransomware hasn’t gone away, it’s just not making headlines. MalwareBytes reports that two more variations of the Locky ransomware have appeared in the last few weeks. Beware DOC and DOCM They spread in ZIP files or the hackers favorite way to infect a computer, Microsoft Office files, most likely Word documents. .DOC or .DOCM files […]
