Today’s big announcement from Microsoft was mostly about the future and the future is 3D. A small part of that future is in PowerPoint. The new major release of Windows 10 will be in 2017 and called the ‘Creators Update’. It will have a lot of 3D enabled elements. Microsoft Paint, that’s barely changed in […]
Microsoft’s cloud service and annual ‘subscription’ strategy continues to work for shareholders. The latest financial results showed an 8% increase in revenue from their Office consumer products and cloud services. There are now 24 million Office 365 consumer ‘subscribers’. As always, we put the word ‘subscription’ in quote marks. The annual payment for Office 365 […]
Microsoft Cloud staff have their chests bursting with pride with the announcement that they’ve met some US Dept. of Defence standards. The blog posting is headed How the Office 365 U.S. Government Cloud meets the regulatory and compliance needs of the Department of Defense which sounds impressive. Regular Office-Watch.com readers won’t be surprised to learn […]
Microsoft is teasing an important Office related announcement for next Wednesday, 2nd November. That might not sound like a big deal, after all, Redmond is always boasting about ‘important’ announcements that turn out to be a damp squib. We know this one is truly important because the head honcho, the big cheese, the main man […]
The many downsides of ‘Brexit’, the UK’s departure from the European Union, now include Microsoft’s UK customers. Retail Office 365 customer may be next. The company has announced that British sales of “enterprise software and cloud services” will go up in price from January 2017. The increases will be between 13% for on-premises enterprise software […]
