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Free Software Alternatives And Options For Your Windows PC
Software Alternatives Windows 10 is perhaps one of the best loaded operating systems to date. There is very little that it doesn’t have a program for, with a few notable exceptions. While Microsoft did give us a lot with Windows 10, it did take a few things away! The internet…
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New MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Uses OLE to Bypass Security
Microsoft Word has been the target of malware for almost as long as it’s been around. Usually, it tries to take advantage of the built-in macro function, but not this time. Macro-files aren’t as effective as they used to be as a lot of apps run in sandboxes these days…
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Microsoft Office 2016 Officially Confirmed For September 22nd Release
Microsoft has finally has announced a September 22nd release for the latest version of Office and intends to implement a more vigorous upgrade schedule: “Consistent with Windows 10 approach, the new Current Branch for Business update model delivers three cumulative feature updates per year, while continuing to offer monthly security…
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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’s Privacy Website Hacked
Digital privacy is a topic of hot debate at the moment. Covering topics from terrorism to hacking, people are more aware of what’s happening and who’s reading their messages in greater detail. Digital Constitution is Microsoft’s website dedicated to enforcing the concept of digital privacy. It would seem that security…
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Microsoft “Office Lens” Document Scanner App for Android Beta Released
Microsoft just released the Android beta app for “Office Lens”, an app that allows you to capture notes, business cards, receipts, and other printed material to be saved as a digital file. The app can also capture things like whiteboards and save them as a digital file, a useful tool…
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The Top 10 Features of Microsoft’s Office 2016 Mac Preview
Microsoft is finally releasing a new redesigned version of its Office suite for Mac this year. The new suite is the first refresh of Microsoft Office for Mac since 2011, a 5 year gap during which Microsoft did not release any new version for Apple’s operating system. The new Word,…
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Apple Opens Up iWork Web Apps To People Without Apple Devices for Free
Apple has just made it possible for anyone, even those who don’t own an Apple product, to access iCloud web apps. Previously, only those who owned an iOS device or Mac could use the online versions of Apple’s productivity apps including Pages, Keynote and Numbers. From today, anyone can go…
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Someone Created a Word Processor in Minecraft
You read that correctly – someone has built a fully functioning (albeit limited) word processor in Minecraft. Its creator, Koala_Steamed, says that the ‘app’ includes a 50-character limit, but can save and load files and can format upper and lower case text. The programming for the word processor was completed using Minecraft’s…
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Chat is Coming to Microsoft Office Online
Tired of working on a document and having to keep switching back and forward to Facebook or Skype to keep your co-workers in the loop? Well it seems that Microsoft is about to make collaborating on documents a lot simpler, by adding chat to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint online. The…
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Microsoft Officially Renames Its Office Web Apps services to Office Online
Not long since Microsoft made the move to change the SkyDrive platform name to OneDrive due to losing the trademark dispute with Sky Broadcasting, the company giant also changed its name of the online version of Office applications, Office Web Apps, to Office Online. There were rumors that the change…
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Microsoft Is Looking To Rebrand Its Web Apps Into ‘Office Online’ Soon
There were rumors about Microsoft rebranding their Office Web Apps suite to Office Online, which does indeed make sense since it is an online service and the name is also not so complicated (for most) as the latter. According to Ubergizmo, Microsoft has apparently posted the Office Online suite as…
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Real-Time Co-Authoring Added To Microsoft Office Web Apps
Microsoft responded with its own significant updates to the company’s Web-based Office applications after a major, free update to Apple’s iWork productivity suite for Mac, iOS and Web. More specifically, Microsoft announced that it has now added real-time co-authoring to its suite of Office Web Apps, allowing users to contribute…
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