August 25, 2010 11:24 AM PDT
by Lance Whitney
The PowerPoint Web App now lets you tap into Microsoft's online library of clip art.
(Credit:
Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET)
Although officially only two months old, Microsoft’s Office Web Apps is already growing up a bit.
To satisfy just some of the many user requests for new features, [...]
August 18, 2010 10:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Microsoft said Wednesday the next version of Office for
Mac will get two key features that were part of the latest Windows version: photo editing and mini charts in Excel, known as Sparklines.
In a video posted on its Office for Mac Web site, the company [...]
August 11, 2010 10:04 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Adrian Mercado credits Microsoft’s Bill Gates with turning around his life.
No, it’s not that Gates–although
Microsoft Office did play a starring role in Mercado’s transformation from wayward youth to motivated future worker. Rather, it is a dreadlocked, African American Microsoft employee named Bill Gates who [...]
August 2, 2010 7:24 AM PDT
by Jonathan E. Skillings
Microsoft on Monday announced pricing and availability for its Office for Mac 2011 software suite.
The version of the Office suite for users of Apple’s
Mac computers is scheduled for release via retail outlets at the end of October, in two editions: Office for Mac [...]
July 29, 2010 6:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
REDMOND, Wash.–Aiming to show it is still winning customers against Google, Microsoft on Thursday announced deals to provide hosted e-mail and portal software to three big corporate customers.
The software maker said Dow Chemical, Hyatt Hotels, and the University of Georgia are all using the [...]
July 28, 2010 10:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
After adding conversation view to the latest PC version of Office, Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that it is adding the feature to the next version of
Mac Office, which is coming later this year.
A look at the new Mac Office (images)
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July 13, 2010 10:22 AM PDT
by Lance Whitney
Microsoft’s Outlook Social Connector now connects with Facebook and Windows Live Messenger.
Credit: Microsoft
Microsoft’s Outlook Social Connector has just gotten a bit more social courtesy of a new update that has added Facebook and Windows Live Messenger integration to its mix.
Unveiled Tuesday, the latest version [...]
June 15, 2010 10:34 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Microsoft is once again betting that its customers can do a better job than anyone else of selling its software.
The company’s $80 million “Make it Great” ad campaign for Office 2010, which kicks off today, is focused entirely on letting a small group of [...]
June 15, 2010 4:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
As Office 2010 hits retail shelves on Tuesday, it finds itself competing with a host of free rivals, not the least of which are two new options from Microsoft itself.
Redmond has long had to deal with free alternatives, including everything from OpenOffice to Google [...]
June 9, 2010 11:06 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
With Microsoft’s Office Web Apps out in the wild, I thought it was time to try to test their limits.
For a while now, Microsoft has said that the experience on the
iPhone would be similar to that in other mobile browsers–allowing document viewing, but not [...]