Office continues to rake in cash for Microsoft Microsoft has released Office sales statistics as part of their latest financial disclosure with Office 365 having over 3.5 million subscribers. 3.5 million subscribers is up from 1 million in May 2013 and 2 million in October 2013. More than 15% of
Microsoft doesn’t have to justify Office software renewals – just pretend to. With the first anniversary of Office 365 coming up, CITEworld has managed to get under Microsoft’s skin with their article titled Microsoft hasn’t given consumers much reason to renew Office 365 . The piece by Nancy Gohring suggests
How the Clinton ‘Saints and Sinners’ spreadsheet might look. Excel has many uses and an upcoming book talks about one of them. Apparently Bill and Hillary Clinton used Excel to maintain a list of those they like and dislike. We could not help wonder what the Clinton worksheet would look
An industrial dispute involving CAPS has ended. One of the most interesting industrial disputes of 2013 has now ended with a new agreement between staff and management of the Melbourne Fire Brigade in Australia. Being an emergency service, the administrative staff didn’t feel that a full ‘stop work’ strike was
Another Office promotion under the microscope Down in Australia there’s some special offers for Office 2013. Alas, when you look at the details it’s not such a great deal. The Get Modern offers for small businesses are summarized by Microsoft like this: 15% off The headline says “15% off Office
Is the latest offer for Office 2013 such a great deal? Down in Australia there’s some special offers for Office 2013. Alas, when you look at the details it’s not such a great deal. The Get Modern offers for small businesses are summarized by Microsoft like this: Let’s look at the
Some improvements to Office 365 subscriptions Office 365 Home Premium subscription currently lets you install Office software on up to five computers in a household as well as get some ‘bonuses’ like an hour of Skype calling time and 20GB of Skydrive space. However control of those installs and the
Collaboration features now in Office Web Apps plus other changes Microsoft has rolled out an update to Office Web Apps – the browser based version of Office available via Skydrive and Office 365. These changes are now available free from Office.com for all comers (‘free’ users and those with paid
Another arrow is thrust right into Microsoft Office. Google continues its moves against Microsoft Office with the announcement that the next version of Android will include their direct rival for Office. Android 4.4 aka ‘KitKat’ will include QuickOffice which lets you create and edit Microsoft Office documents directly (Word, Excel and
If you rent/subscribe to Office software, how does the upgrade work. What if you don’t want to upgrade. If you want to control your Microsoft Office versions, maybe buying the software is a better choice than renting it. One of the ‘benefits’ of an Office software subscription is that you
Apple’s office compatible apps are now free. Buried in the new iPhone hype was some interesting news for anyone editing Office documents on iPhone or iPad. The ‘iWork’ apps are now free on new devices. That’s Pages (word-processing), Keynote (presentations) and Numbers (spreadsheet). Each app cost $9.99 in the past
OneNote for iPad/iPhone has been updated with some important and essential additions. With version 2.1 you have proper control to create notebooks on Skydrive. At last you can create, rename and delete sections. Until now OneNote users had to switch to their computer or Office Web Apps to rearrange notebooks
Office 365 and Exchange Online users get double mailbox size for no extra charge. Microsoft has announced a major increase in the mailbox size for Office 365 / Exchange Online customers. For most people this means their mailbox can now grow past 25GB to 50GB. That’s a lot of space
No details on an update to Office for iPhone. Microsoft has pushed out an update to Office for iPhone and it achieves a new low in the sad history of updates to Office software. Office-Watch.com is accustomed to Microsoft updates with poor documentation and we’ve written about them for many
How accurate is Excel compared to universal needs. On page 45 of the Sept/Oct 2013 Mental Floss magazine is a small item ‘Why do we care so much about the digits if Pi’ which includes this trivia: “The computers that keep the International Space Station humming round off pi at
An online tool from MIT helps you see what the government can see. The Media Lab at MIT has an online service which shows how revealing ‘metadata’ or ‘identifiers’ collected by the US government can really be. Microsoft, the US government and others defending the controversial PRISM program have been
Evernote for Android now comes with the ability to edit Office documents. Our favorite notemaking system, Evernote, now has the ability to edit Office documents within their Android version. Yes – we very much prefer Evernote over Office Onenote. Evernote runs very well, syncs seamlessly and completely across all popular
A quick overview of Word on Android phones. You can open and view documents in either docx or doc format but will only edit docx documents. If you open a .doc file, press the menu button and Save As to the newer format. When you open a document you’re first
Office apps, of a sort, come to Android phones. Hot on the heels of Office for iPhone comes Microsoft’s version of Office for Android phones. The Android release is very similar to Office for iPhone, which effectively means both are quite limited in features and availability. Office for Android (officially
Does Microsoft have a list of blocked words like Apple does on the iPhone? One of the more amazing examples of over-control by a software maker is the news that Apple has a ‘Kill List’ of words that it won’t spell-check. It seems that iOS v6 devices have a list
After last week’s revelations about Microsoft’s cooperation with the US government, we asked some questions …. Still waiting for a reply of any kind. After last week’s revelations about Microsoft’s cooperation with the US government, we asked some questions to Microsoft. They asked for more time to reply, so we
Microsoft’s official response to the latest news about their work with the NSA and FBI. Office-Watch.com has posed a series of specific questions to Microsoft which we hope will get a response in the next few days. In the meantime here’s their official response to the Guardian article about Microsoft’s
New disclosures about how Microsoft actively collaborates with the NSA to infiltrate Skydrive and encrypted messages on a large scale. The Guardian newspaper today has damaging revelations about how Microsoft had gone beyond simply responding to specific requests from the US government for information on individuals using Outlook.com, Skydrive and other
Microsoft doesn’t want Office for iPhone to be good or popular. We’ve received a lot of emails from people disappointed with Microsoft Office Mobile for iPhone. Disappointed that it’s so limited in features and options for saving documents. Disappointed that the new app requires an Office software rental to use
