There’s joy and celebrations in the streets of Maine as their Oxford Comma dispute is settled. Even Microsoft Word approves the new law! The missing comma only cost $5 million plus legal fees. A quick follow up to our 2017 story about a legal dispute around the lack of an Oxford Comma. Oxford Comma in […]
BitGlass and Cylance have found some new ransomware called Shurl0cker that managed to fool both Google and Microsoft’s scans to arrive on their customers cloud storage. According to the researchers: “Two well-known cloud platforms with built-in malware protection, Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365, failed to identify the ransomware. In addition, Bitglass tested VirusTotal, a […]
“Why Microsoft Office is a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush Saga” says one of our favorite podcasters, Tim Hartford. Is he right? Hartford isn’t any random blogger. He’s a respected writer with a regular column in The Economist, a series of wonderfully readable books and a great radio program/podcast, More or Less on BBC […]
Microsoft has announced some administrative detail about the next ‘fixed’ version of Office for Windows; Office 2019. The news demonstrates, yet again, that Microsoft really doesn’t want anyone buying Office 2019. Redmond wants everyone paying annual Office fee instead. Office 2019 for Windows is the ‘perpetual’ or fixed version of Office which can be bought […]
Microsoft’s Word Comments feature has popped up in the news again over the break, this time to embarrass Milo Yiannopoulos, a former Brietbart commentator. Mr Yiannopoulos is in a legal battle with his publisher over a proposed book and some of the court papers are now public. What’s catching attention are the editor’s comments in […]
