All about Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and earlier versions.
How can you send an Office document safely and securely to another person? A simple question with no simple answer. Who you are guarding against? A random snooper at the recipient’s end who accidentally finds the document, or someone targeting your or your data, such as a commercial rival, nosey journalist, law enforcement, the […]
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 least we’re assuming Microsoft is […]
According to a report at CNN Money … Microsoft has bought both Office.porn and Office.adult ! It’s not likely they’ll be used. Microsoft is probably preempting any attempt to hijack those names when .porn and .adult Top Level Domains go online from 1 June 2015. They aren’t the only brand to get ahead of opportunists. […]
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 is important to helping keep […]
CloudOn, the online service that lets you use ‘real’ Office programs on a range of mobile devices, has been bought by Dropbox. We looked at CloudOn back in 2012. It runs a copy of the full Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) on a server and virtualizes the screen display to your tablet device. You can […]
