How to get the bonus Skydrive storage Microsoft is offering 7GB of Skydrive storage for all comers but past Skydrive users get a boost to 25GB. Here’s how to get it. Login to skydrive.live.com In the left column, at the bottom there’s a ‘Manage Storage’ link. This is where you
The Kindle is getting a new file format to replace MOBI called KF8 Amazon is rolling out a new ebook file format to replace the limited MOBI format it has used since the very first Kindle. Amazon uses the AZW extension for ebooks ‘locked’ with digital rights management. It’s called
We look into the privacy claims about Google Drive. There’s been a lot of talk about privacy with files stored on Google Drive. Part of it is based on a selective reading of Google’s terms of service while the other part is courtesy of a campaign from Microsoft to undermine
How to setup Google Drive and share documents. After giving more promises than a desperate ex-boyfriend, we now have Google Drive – Google’s effort to link their online storage with computers and devices. Like DropBox, SugarSync, Skydrive and others, Google Drive aims to be a single point to store files
One Windows 8 product will include Office – but only in part and expect to pay more later. There are four Windows 8 products (actually three since one is the only choice for the upcoming Windows tablets): Windows 8 – the equivalent of the current ‘Home’ editions of Windows 7
How to change the Windows Send to email option to something less annoying and more directly useful. For a long time Windows has an option to select a file in Explorer and email it. Right-click on a file, choose ‘Send to’ then one from the list of options. The exact
Enterprises pay less for Office 365 though the reason is silly. Microsoft has announced a price drop of ‘up to 20%’ on Office 365 for their enterprise ‘E’ plans as well as an extension of the Education offer, effective 14 March 2012. The announcement of these price drops is strange
Reading the coverage of Windows 8 Consumer Preview is like deja vu all over again. Reading all the coverage of Windows 8 Consumer Preview is like deja vu all over again … the same headlines with a new date stamp: “New Windows 8 experience is confusing, confusing as hell.” “Fantastic
Leaders and Librarians are among the new Office Watch reader contributions. Leaders and Librarians are among the new Office Watch reader contributions. They have have used our What they think of me / What they think I do PowerPoint template to make some funny images about their lives. Click on
Which versions Office can you use with Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Nerds and Geeks the world over, including us at Office Watch, will be poring over the Windows 8 Consumer Preview released today. But what about running Microsoft Office – can you use existing versions of Office on the Windows
Paying and saving money for your Office 365 service. When you’re getting near the end of your Office 365 trial and you’ve decided to continue with it, there comes the time to pay for Office 365. As usual with Microsoft, it helps to know some extra things before trying to
How to stop Office 365 sending emails with ‘on behalf of’ in the sender or FROM line. One major hassle with Office 365 is that messages sent using connected accounts don’t have a normal ‘FROM’ line. Instead they show the Office 365 internal domain ‘ on behalf of’ your connected
There is no catch-all email in Office 365 but aliases are buried in the configuration. Yet even then they aren’t properly implemented. The Office 365 implementation of email aliases is a typical Microsoft minimal effort. They’ve done enough so they can say Office 365 has ‘aliases’ but lacks the depth
Office-Watch.com readers use the ‘What People Think I do’ PowerPoint template. Three ladies have used our What they think of me / What they think I do PowerPoint template to make some funny images about their lives. Click on any image to see a full size version. Alice Goetschel has insight
Office for iPad rumors with less than convincing denials from Microsoft. The Daily has images that purport to be for a ‘Microsoft Office for iPad’. The images tell us nothing except that Office for iPad is near with icons for an iPad version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It’s hardly
Make your own ‘What they think of me’ in PowerPoint! What they think of me / What I really do is a popular set of photos and captions going around in 2012. It started with artist Garnet Hertz like this .. There are some more examples below. The ‘template’ provided by
A brief peek at Office 15 with hints of what’s to come. The preview video for Windows 8 on ARM devices (called WOA) has some views of the next version of Office – aka Office 15. It gives a small idea of what the next Office will look like on
Will Windows 8 really ‘include’ Office 15? Some commentators have jumped to the conclusion that Windows 8 on ARM (WOA) will come with Office 15 applications based on a blog post that said “WOA includes desktop versions of the new Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.”. We’ve been around Microsoft
Office 15 has a ‘Sign in’ option on the title bar. On the top left of Word 15, Excel 15 and Powerpoint 15 in the preview video is a new option ‘Sign In’. This suggests there’s to be even more obvious integrations between Office and online storage options like Sharepoint
A hint about new ‘Design’ features in Word 15 A close look at a Windows 8 preview video gives a clue about features in the next version of Word. There is a new tab called ‘Design’ which suggests there’s new Word features to make easier to create complex documents –
Office 365 mis-handles email read receipts and tracking with the Monrovia / Reykjavik time zone. There’s an ongoing complaint about Office 365’s response to email read receipts and other email tracking. When an Office 365 user asks for a read receipt, the receipt comes back with a time zone of
How to change the time zone setting in Outlook Web Apps and how it’s a workaround for an Outlook problem. Anyone who has Outlook Web Apps can use it to workaround a long-standing problem in Outlook – multiple time zone display. Outlook has always given limited time zone support. For
Copying or moving many items in Outlook isn’t easy – here’s how to avoid Outlook’s deficiencies. For as long as Outlook has existed, there have been problems when you copy or move many items around. Here are some suggestions from years of experience and frustration. When transferring many items, Outlook
If you can’t use Windows Remote Desktop there are other choices. Remote Desktop works well for compatible Windows computers on the same local network. Beyond that there are other choices, they usually don’t work as well as Remote Desktop but are still good. Live Mesh If you want to reach
