It’s an old scam which has resurfaced for the gullible. You get an email that promises vast wealth from Microsoft in some award scheme you’ve never heard of: “ Your address just won you $500,000 in the Microsoft Word awards.” “ Your address just won you Five hundred thousand pounds sterling in the Microsoft Office awards.“ The […]
As part of the 2015 BUILD conference, Microsoft announced a series of new tools for Office developers. They are new and updated API’s (Application Program Interface) which let developers work with software or a web service. For example a OneDrive or DropBox API lets a separate program directly save, read and move files from online […]
Microsoft has announced that the concept of add-ins, now limited to Office for Windows, will soon be coming to Office for iPad. Just like in Office for Windows, Office for iPad will have a side pane that can add more to Excel. Here’s Microsoft’s example of a Dun and Bradstreet add-in to get company information. […]
If there’s a common theme through Office Watch these days it’s the lack of disclosure by Microsoft about what they are doing with Office software. One example is the apparently silent update to the English language dictionary in Office. A few days ago we mentioned the addition to the English dictionary of words from the […]
A few weeks ago we told you and Microsoft about a broken web link from Outlook 2013. The link to add more social connectors to Outlook 2013 goes to a fancy ‘Page not found’ page that’s no help at all. This isn’t a mistake by Microsoft, they’ve had some time to fix this and had […]
