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Microsoft to End Support for Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows 10 by October 2025
Microsoft has announced that support for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025, coinciding with the end of support for the operating system itself. This means users and businesses using Office apps will need to upgrade their devices to Windows 11 to continue receiving updates…
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Microsoft Offers Office Pirates A Discount for them to ‘Go Straight’
While Microsoft Office certainly represents both an excellent and popular piece of software, it does come with a pretty notable problem. Namely, it’s rather expensive. Well, the full version of it is at least. With this in mind, therefore, rather than owning a legitimate copy, many people turn to pirated…
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IT Worker Jailed for Ruining Former Employers Network
I daresay that many of you reading this have probably had a bad experience with a former employer. I would also presume that while you may have had a few choice words as you walked (or were escorted) out the door, your actions did not go as far as anything…
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Schools Ban Microsoft Office 365 Over Privacy Concerns
The launch of Office 365 has proven to be very popular with both individuals and organisations. Largely because it offers a means of having access to Office software while having all of your documents and data stored via a cloud server. You could, in theory, start writing a letter from…
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Microsoft Found Sharing Private Office 365 Documents
A security researcher has found a critical flaw with Microsoft’s Office 365 service that allowed users to access other users’ private documents. Kevin Beumont discovered that the search bar on the homepage of Docs.com, Microsoft’s Office 365 document sharing site, was showing files that were not intended for public sharing…
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Microsoft Office 2016 Arrives Next Month
Microsoft has spilled the beans on their latest office suite, which is set to arrive next month. According to information accidentally leaked by a Microsoft intranet site, Microsoft Office 2016 will be launched on September 22nd, a little under a month from now. While we got a refresh for Microsoft…
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Microsoft Update Takes Down Bing and Yahoo
The outages of search engines Bing and Yahoo! Search on Friday night has been attributed to a flawed piece of code uploaded to servers by Microsoft. The bad code also took down live.com, Microsoft’s Hotmail redirect, and Office 365 for a short period. Yahoo’s search facility is now powered by…
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Microsoft Announces $199 Work & Play Bundle
In a bundle surely to top all bundles, Microsoft is throwing together four of its subscription-based products and services into one $199 package. The “Work and Play” bundle includes Office 365 Home, Skype Unlimited World and WiFi, Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Music Pass. The sale of this bundle is rather…
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Microsoft Office Reportedly Heading for Android Tablets
Microsoft has launched its Office product for the iPad earlier this year, having it be a stripped-down version of the actual Microsoft Office for desktop, designed specifically for the iPad. It apparently has been released ahead of Microsoft’s own Windows tablets, which is a little ironic. Rumor now has it…
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China Cracks Down On Microsoft: Bans Microsoft Office In Government Institutions
Reports coming out of China suggest that Chinese central government has issued a ban on Microsoft’s Office software in parts of the Central government and its subordinate departments. The move follows on from the Windows 8 ban on central government systems in May earlier this year. China has reportedly made…
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Microsoft Adds Extra OneDrive and Office 365 Free Space, Lowers Subscription Fees
Since OneDrive (formerly known as SkyDrive) has been launched, Microsoft offered a standard 7 GB free storage space with additional subscription fees for users who required more. However, this is about to chance with Microsoft’s latest announcement of upping the 7 GB free space to 15 GB. The company is…
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Office 365 Admin App Available On Android and iOS
The new Microsoft Office 365 gives small companies and even corporation the ability to use the cloud in their advantage when it comes to office work and productivity. But there still needs to be someone there to manage it all. Thankfully, now you can manage the office software remotely with…
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Microsoft Moves Cloud Hosting To EU For New Office 365 Member
Microsoft has just teamed up with the corporation Capita to offer them the Office 365 service according to the Channel. The deal will see Microsoft host all employee emails and some 20,000 staff will be migrated over to Microsoft’s cloud service. Apparently Microsoft’s service is more cost-effective and Microsoft has…
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Microsoft Introduces SkyDrive Pro Client For Windows Download
SkyDrive, Microsoft’s free cloud storage client, has been mainly used with your online email client such as Outlook or Hotmail, or with your Microsoft Office packages that allow syncing to Microsoft’s SkyDrive. Recently Microsoft have released SkyDrive Pro, which is a new standalone client for Windows that allows you to…
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