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Touch features in Office 2013
Office 2013 has some clever tricks when you touch the screen. Tony G writes: “ … there are some subtle features in Office 2013. I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 and I have observed that the right click menus and...
View ArticleOffice 365 outages – the incomplete post-mortem
Microsoft doesn’t see the main problem as they apologizes & explain the Lync and Exchange outages. In a blog post, Microsoft has explained what happened in the cloud service breakdowns earlier this...
View ArticleMore Microsoft encryption promises
Do the latest Microsoft data encryption promises mean much? Microsoft has announced more encryption services for customers but it’s more ‘papering over the cracks’ than a real effort to protect...
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More characters for Unicode
Unicode adds more characters to an already large list. Unicode has added another 2,834 new characters in the Unicode 7.0 specification, mostly support for 23 new scripts. That takes the total to a...
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How to Email direct to cloud storage and services
Some programs let you email documents directly – here’s now. Microsoft Office for iPad has an ‘Email as attachment’ as one of its limited options for sharing a document. Here’s some clever ways to make...
View ArticleWhere is Microsoft on email encryption?
Microsoft needs to play ‘catch up’ with email encryption. Yahoo is going to join Google is supporting not just email encryption but the same type of email encryption. Sadly we’ll have to wait until...
View ArticleWhat has the Smartphone ever done for us?
Forget the Romans … what use is a smartphone? The Guardian has an interesting article “From cameras to keycards, everyday devices killed off by the smartphone”. It could read like a scene from Life of...
View ArticleOutlook annoyance with Exchange Server
More than a few Outlook users have seen this error message “The Microsoft Exchange administrator has made a change that requires you quit and restart Outlook” Problem is, the Microsoft message is...
View ArticleCreative alternatives to Word
While Microsoft Word lumbers along, there’s some interesting and genuinely creative word processors out there. We’re not talking about direct rivals to Microsoft Office 2013 like OpenOffice,...
View ArticleOffice for Mac 2015 roadmap
As part of the Outlook for Mac release, Microsoft has indicated their Office for Mac plans. A new Office for Mac (Office 2015 for Mac?) will be released in the second half of 2015. Office 365...
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