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Microsoft announces Retina Display support for Office for Mac 2011
Microsoft reports: We’re happy to announce that Office for Mac 2011 (version 14.2.4) now supports Retina display for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Text everywhere is incredibly crisp and all key areas of the interface are now sharper than ever. We hope you enjoy this fantastic software experience! As long as you have Microsoft AutoUpdate […]
Continue reading...Microsoft mocks Google in “Googlighting” spoof [Video]
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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It’s funny how quickly Google morphed from a pure search company into the sworn enemy of two tech behemoths – Apple and Microsoft. Google revenue is primarily generated via search advertising, and everything they do is effectively an effort to make more money with ads. The end result is that Google tends to give a […]
Continue reading...Microsoft eyeing release of Office for the iPad
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Microsoft is planning to release its suite of Microsoft Office software for the iPad according to a recent report from The Daily. At the core, Microsoft is a software company and with the iPad essentially owning the tablet market, that’s a big and untapped market Microsoft seems to be eyeing more intensely these days with […]
Continue reading...Microsoft debates bringing Office to the Mac App Store
Monday, January 31, 2011
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All Things D reports that Microsoft is toying with the idea of bringing Microsoft Office to the nascent Mac App Store. As it stands now, sales of the Mac version of Office are doing quite well, but the Mac App Store opens up a market of millions of potentially new customers. Indeed, stories of huge […]
Continue reading...Microsoft announces October launch for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011
Monday, August 2, 2010
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Microsoft announced today that Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 will be available for purchase in 100 countries by the end of October. There will be two main versions of the software at launch — Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. The former will cost $119 for a […]
Continue reading...Breaking down Microsoft’s profits by product division [Chart]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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Telling chart from Silicon Alley Insider breaking down Microsoft’s operating profits by product division. Makes you wonder how much longer they can continue ride the Office wave. And as for the Zune, the XBox and Microsoft’s other entertainment related endeavors, well, let’s just say that Office 2010 is gonna be off the hook!
Continue reading...Setting up a Microsoft Surface table brings on headaches
Monday, April 27, 2009
Gordon Miller over at Kinesismomentum has an interesting article about unboxing a Microsoft Surface table, and the frustrations involved with setting it up. In short, it seems that you get a big-ass table without any clearcut instructions as to how it should be set up. Miller concludes, No doubt it took a lot of very […]
Continue reading...Lunchtime Link Roundup
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Here are some links to keep you busy whilst you eat your lunch, or simply waste time at work. Whatever works for you. We aim to please. Apple selling 22 iPhones, 28 Macs a day – Fortune NIN iPhone App goes Live – 9to5Mac Why Apple should not extend its exclusive iPhone deal with AT&T […]
Continue reading...Why Microsoft Office won’t be going anywhere anytime soon
Monday, December 8, 2008
A short and sweet explanation as to why web based applications won’t be a serious threat to Microsoft Office anytime soon: The problem is that many if not most medium to large enterprises have years of intellectual property tied up in complicated Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations, Access databases and Word documents riddled with embedded macros […]
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
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