Organizations should watch out for a Microsoft sale technique where a licence ‘audit’ is just a way to gather customer data and try to upsell to Office 365 TechRepublic reports on some forum threads that report MS salespeople trying to get a ‘voluntary’ audit of software licences by making various thinly veiled threats about noncompliance, […]
Office for Apple devices adds more cloud storage options plus a unique feature for PowerPoint. Edmodo and Tencent cloud storage is now supported. Tencent is a very large Chinese Internet company. It has a cloud storage service called Weiyun (in Chinese). Edmodo is an educational collaboration service based in California. Word for iOS gets the […]
Office 365 Groups, workplace collaboration system and Microsoft’s answer to Slack, will now accept guest users with some conditions. Until now only registered users, part of an organization, could be part of an Office 365 Group. Now outside contractors, partners etc can be invited to join the conversation. Source: Microsoft For the moment, guest access […]
OpenOffice, a free MS Office alternative, may stop improving in the near future. Developers seem reluctant to contribute the time necessary to keep the project alive. In the words of volunteer Vice President Dennis E. Hamilton, OpenOffice “has limited capacity for sustaining the project in an energetic manner.” Even if you don’t use OpenOffice, it would […]
In addition to the security fixes for Office, the same update has many other changes and fixes. Some of these ‘Nonsecurity-related fixes and improvements’ caught our eye: The expansion of the programming interface into Office continues with the addition of DialogAPI 1.1 and Mailbox 1.4 in Office 2013 programs VBA macros are no longer automatically […]
