Microsoft has announced that the Facebook ‘social connectors’ that link products like Outlook have stopped working. No warning, it’s just happened. This affects a wide range of Microsoft products including Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013. We’ve copied below Microsoft’s full list of affected products. Microsoft is blaming Facebook for this but, as we’ll see, that excuse […]
Microsoft has pushed out an update for the Office 2016 Preview with some feature updates and, presumably, bug fixes. The company is highlighting the following things in the update: Real Time Presence in Word–While Real Time Typing will ship in subsequent builds, we are rolling out a key part of that collaborative experience with Real […]
The preview version of SQL Server 2016 has an interesting feature which shows that Microsoft can offer secure cloud storage if they want to. Until now, the focus has been on securing data ‘in transit’ between the server and computers or between different servers. The data itself is ‘in the clear’ when saved in the […]
Last week we noted that Facebook has joined Google and Yahoo with support for the OpenPGP encrypted email standard. Microsoft in Windows or Outlook doesn’t support this standard. Gpg4Win adds OpenPGP for Windows. It also has GpgOL, an Outlook plug-in but only for 32-bit Outlook. If you have 64-bit Office / Outlook an alternative is gpg4o […]
Among all the announcements from Apple yesterday, there’s one that caught our eye – multi-tasking. This is coming in iOS 9 … the next version of the Apple operating system. Source: Apple At least Apple calls it ‘multi-tasking’ it’s really just a split screen so you can have two apps ‘side-by-side’. Office for iPad: the […]
