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Apple’s new campus plans unveiled, underground auditorium included

, Jun 8th 2012 Discuss [2]

A brand new corporate campus for Apple's home city of Cupertino is in the works and is scheduled to be complete by 2015. As you would expect, it will be packed to the gills with the latest in office high-tech but what's potentially even more interesting is that there will be a massive auditorium in the basement of one of the massive buildings it's planning to construct. Read The Full Story

Google acquires Quickoffice

, Jun 5th 2012 Discuss [2]

Google may already have Documents and Drive at its disposal, but the company has just announced that its acquiring Quickoffice to further expand its office capabilities. The main motivation behind the purchase seems to be Quickoffice’s ability to easily convert between many different office file formats. Google say that Quickoffice features will be rolled into Apps in the future. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Office for iPad coming November 10

, May 31st 2012 Discuss [4]

Today information leading to the release of Microsoft's ubiquitious Office suite of apps has been leaked with November 10th being the big drop-off point. This release date has been leaked by a source familiar with the matter to The Daily where they've also learned that Office Mobile has nearly wrapped work on the actual final version of the application. This application does now appear to be in the hands of Microsoft's assigned usability team to make sure it will fit in with Metro design language to remind all iPad users that this is a Microsoft app - "get on Windows 8!" it will say thusly. Read The Full Story

Microsoft rumored to launch Office on iPad in November

, May 23rd 2012 Discuss [6]

Microsoft will reportedly be launching its full Office suite on iPads and Android tablets this November. There have been attempts by third-parties such as OnLive and CloudOn to bring the popular productivity suite to tablets, but now Microsoft may officially release the suite itself, especially since it is expected to launch the more tablet-friendly Metro-styled Office with Windows 8 in October. Read The Full Story

CloudOn Microsoft Office support comes to Android

, May 9th 2012 Discuss [1]

Nascent cloud platform CloudOn is bringing the same Microsoft Office functionality that it offered to the iPad version of its app last month, to Android tablets. CloudOn gives users a 'virtualization' of Office, allowing them to easily go in and access or modify Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. It also has support for viewing PDF files as well as picture files. It is basically a lite cloud-based operating system that gives users access to their most important documents anywhere. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Office 15 video: “it goes where you go”

, Apr 16th 2012 Discuss [2]

If Microsoft's latest official video for the newest edition of Office is anything to go by, the software giant's main focal point in this installment is portability. It's a very stylized video that symbolizes having your Office documents with you at home, on the road, on the train, in rural America...anywhere on the planet. In other words, the wonderful world of Office is ready to marry the cloud. Read The Full Story

Livescribe and Dropbox bring handwritten notes to the cloud

, Apr 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

Livescribe has partnered with Dropbox to make its Echo smartpen even more productive for busy note-takers. The Echo smartpen will now be able to automatically sync its notes directly to a user's Dropbox account. And since about 46 percent of Livescribe users also use Dropbox, this is a perfect match for storing handwritten notes in the cloud to be conveniently and securely accessible from anywhere. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Roadmap leaks with 2012-14 products galore

, Apr 12th 2012 Discuss [3]

It appears that Microsoft has had leaked a roadmap which shows many product releases in both the software and hardware departments for the year 2012. This roadmap was created back in December of 2011 and was leaked this week via Microsoft’s own publicly available Microsoft Partner Network and sent out by Twitter user and CEO of startup company MeeTroo Maarten Visser. This roadmap shows software including Office 15, Internet Explorer 10, Lync Server 15, Windows Phone, and more.

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Windows XP support countdown timer begins now

, Apr 9th 2012 Discuss [7]

As of today, you have exactly two years left to get support on your Windows XP-powered computers. The same goes for Microsoft Office 2003. Okay, so it's not exactly time to flip over the sand timer, but it is finally a real milestone that points to the death of an operating system that, for years and years and years, simply would not die. And it means that hordes of companies around the country are finally going to need to upgrade. Read The Full Story

Microsoft branding cull leaks plus Office 15 tablet UI tease

, Feb 24th 2012 Discuss [5]

Microsoft is set to retire the Zune and Windows Live brands with Windows 8, it's reported, as well as offer a switchable tablet/desktop UI in the Office 15 apps for increased finger-friendliness. The so-called "Touch Mode" button has been spotted in the Office 15 technical preview but is not yet functional, according to ZDNet's source, but which will presumably boost icon size among other tweaks for those using the software in Metro mode on tablets and touchscreen all-in-ones. Read The Full Story

Microsoft snipes at Google Apps in latest ad

, Feb 22nd 2012 Discuss [11]

Microsoft can't seem to stop taking pot-shots at Google, and following the privacy-fear-flogging Gmail Man video comes an attack on the Office-rivaling Google Apps. The new video - which you can see after the cut - pits a sleazy Google Apps salesman against the enterprise market and, somewhat bizarrely, some soulful crooning about how we should fear the "Googlighting" man and the possibility that Google could simply pull the plug on features we're reliant on or, in fact, whole services. Read The Full Story

Office for iPad denied by Microsoft

, Feb 21st 2012 Discuss [9]

This morning's report that an image of Office on the iPad was a precursor to a full app release has been denied in kind by Microsoft. The company has said that not only was the report that the app would be coming in just weeks untrue, but the idea that they are actually in the process of creating Office for iOS may well be untrue entirely. Of course this app would be one of the most hotly downloaded document editors on the iTunes App Store if it were released, so we must assume that Microsoft is simply putting a greater effort into releasing a final version eventually. Read The Full Story
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