Some reader suggestions for a renamed Skydrive. With the news that Microsoft’s Skydrive service will be renamed, came some suggestions from readers. Microsoft Cloud Storage 2013 Home and Student edition Office 365 Drive Bob Drive – time to give the ill-fated Microsoft Bob a new job. Universal Microsoft hasn’t used “Ultimate” in a while, so […]
Microsoft loses a court battle – Skydrive is no more. Microsoft has lost a court case regarding use of the term ‘Sky’ and is being forced to rename their ‘Skydrive’ cloud storage service to something else. While the case was held in the UK and only covered use of the name in the European Union, […]
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 in a view only mode. […]
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 called “Office Mobile for Office […]
Past patches and fixes to ‘secret’ bugs in an update to Office 2010 and related programs. Microsoft has released another service pack for Office 2010 and associated programs like SharePoint 2010 with the usual trick of patching software bugs that Microsoft had kept secret from customers. It’s an old trick that Microsoft has done for […]
