Recently we mentioned a report about consistent failures of Windows Indexing that was finally solved by disabling Hyper-V. We’re now confident that there’s a conflict, because we’ve had two more reports from readers of the same problem and solution. ” Thanks for the coverage of Windows indexing problems. I spent
Yet one more for the list of things you’d never thought you’d see from Microsoft. They now have a deal with major Android phone and tablet makers to include Office software in some of their products. That’s right, Microsoft is paying companies to put their software on non-Windows devices. At
After a preview period, Microsoft Delve has gone public for Office 365 Business users. More links into Delve have also been announced. Delve is a new form of search tool which bring in relevant data from a selection of sources. Some are private like a Sharepoint site, corporate address book
More than a few people have problems with the Outlook ‘instant’ search feature. It’s great when it works but too often you get the dreaded “Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed”. Sometimes all you need to do is wait until indexing is complete. Depending on
According to a report at CNN Money … Microsoft has bought both Office.porn and Office.adult ! It’s not likely they’ll be used. Microsoft is probably preempting any attempt to hijack those names when .porn and .adult Top Level Domains go online from 1 June 2015. They aren’t the only brand
With the March 2015 Preview of Office 2016 comes more news of upcoming features. Some are interesting while others are in the ‘what took you so long’ category or even the ‘you mean it didn’t already do that?’ department. This isn’t a full list, it’s just what Microsoft is disclosing
If you have an Office 365 ProPlus, Business Premium or Enterprise E3 licence (that means business users) you can now try out an early version of Office 2016 for Windows. It’s officially called the “Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview”. You can go to Microsoft Connect for details and
Microsoft has released v2 of the OneNote Clipper, a browser add-in to copy content from a web page to OneNote. It has some nice new features but still has a fundamental flaw or at least a strange behavior. New in version 2 There’s a different interface with more options. The
If you think that civilization is coming to an end, here’s confirmation. There’s now a book of Word porn, strictly speaking Clippy Porn. Now available on Kindle is Conquered by Clippy: An Erotic Short Story It’s a 4,000 word short story featuring a giant living paperclip. As the blurb explains
There was not surprising news this week that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and contractors are hard at work trying to hack into iPhones and iPads. What didn’t get as much attention was the same hackers at work on Windows. It’s no surprise that security agencies are working on
Microsoft has released their April pile of fixes for the never-ending list of security holes in their products, mostly Windows and Office. Some are interesting, but not for good reasons. Thought: with all the hype and promises for Windows 10, there’s no mention of improved security. It would be nice
The big political story in the USA is that Hilary Clinton used a private email service while Secretary of State instead of the State Departments own email system. We don’t care much about politics, as Office geeks we’re interested in what Hilary Clinton’s staff used for her email hosting. She
All over the world, governments are intruding into our private lives in the name of safety and anti-terrorism. They talk about ‘metadata’ to make out that the information they are collecting isn’t that important. This ‘metadata’ will be collected, held for a long time and accessible by government agencies without
Microsoft has changed their Exchange Server hosting (under the Office 365 banner) to allow for longer holding of Deleted Items up to ‘forever’. Until now, Office 365 hosting had a fixed 30 days for Deleted Items retention. Any item in the Deleted Items folder older than 30 days was automatically
We’ve used Lenovo laptops for a long time, back when they were IBM computers. They are usually good machines with excellent keyboards, pricey but generally reliable. So it’s with great dismay they we’ve been reading about Lenovo and the ‘Superfish’ software that was installed on some of their computers in
We’ve been looking closely at the Outlook app for iOS and Android as well as online reviews and the many comments from Office-Watch.com readers. We’ve come to the conclusion that there are two different apps. The preview versions that the public are trying and there’s other, quite different, apps which
Rene Winkelmeyer was the first to detail the worrying and undocumented way the Outlook apps store your email account logins. Normal programs and apps keep your login details (server, name, password etc) encrypted on the computer or device. When needed the name/password is sent direct to the mail host to
I’m not sure how something can get better than free, but a marketing genius at Microsoft has done it. OneNote for Windows has been available free to all comers since 2014 but with some features blocked and only accessible in the paid versions. Now more of the features have been
We love words, especially old words that have been largely forgotten. This Valentine’s Day there’s a short item in The Independent UK about 10 old words that modern romantics might like to revive. We tried them out in Office 2013 to see if the in-built dictionary could cope. No real surprise that
Would you like a peek at the next version of Microsoft Office for Windows? Well you can, if you’re willing to take a risk and play by Microsoft’s rules. Office 2016 (also called Office 365 Desktop) Technical Preview is now available for download. Details on how to do that are
A substantially improved and upgraded Organizing Outlook Email ebook is available right now. The 3rd edition goes deep into Outlook 2013/2010 & 2007 with new ways to get the most out of your email. The Third Edition is totally updated and revised to cover Outlook 2013/2010 & 2007 email management in detail. There are all sorts
A few questions from readers about their ISP (Internet Service Provider) based email service that comes with their internet access. We’ll try to explain what normally happens. Keep in mind that each ISP has it’s own rules so you should check with them. Michael B writes: “Once I switch to RoadRunner,
If you thought email scams were all about Nigerian princes and unknown lottery wins, think again. An Omaha man has lost his job after being tricked into sending $17 million of company funds to scammers. The tricksters sent emails that appeared to come from the CEO and its auditors, but
After years of teasing, Microsoft has today released beta versions of their touch interface Office applications. These are proper touch interface versions of Office programs, not the lame ‘touch’ button in Office 2013 which merely makes the ribbon spacing larger. For Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, there’s now beta versions
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