In Australia you should be careful when visiting the local Microsoft Australia site for Office related matters. You could pay a lot more for Office products. If you visit office.com.au be aware – it’s NOT from Microsoft and they charge more for Office than anywhere else we’ve seen. Microsoft owns office.com but NOT office.com.au Office.com.au […]
We recently talked about how screen size is important to whether you need to pay for Microsoft Office … but what happens when the screen size changes? That might seem like a strange idea … how can a phone or tablet device change its screen size? Well it can and Microsoft itself makes that easier […]
Microsoft has released for public preview another cloud service – Project Madeira. (not sure if this is a reference to the island, the wine, the cake, or the song by Flanders and Swann). Project Madeira’s promotion is full of broad techno-babble and you’d be quite forgiven for not understanding what it does from explanations like […]
Lifehacker has a detailed look at the two major free mail services – Gmail and Outlook.com (the former Hotmail). It’s mostly about the web interface for each which is important for some people. Outlook for Windows/Mac can connect to both Outlook.com and Gmail but it works better with Outlook.com. Outlook links to Outlook.com using Microsoft […]
A good friend of Office Watch had their Gmail account hacked and asked Peter the obvious question … what should I do? Our friend (no name, no shame) was ‘lucky’. The hackers didn’t change her password so she could still access her account. They sent an email to everyone in her contacts list with a […]
