Office

Microsoft is readying a launch of new “Office Online” branding for its existing Office Web Apps. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans have revealed to The Verge that Office Online will roll out in the coming weeks, and Microsoft’s office.com site will be refreshed to accommodate the changes. The name change follows a similar rebrand for Continue Reading →

Microsoft on Monday flipped the switch on Student Advantage, a program, announced in October, that extends the availability of Office to students of educational institutions that pay for Office 365 for their staff and faculty. According to Microsoft, 35,000 educational institutions are eligible for Student Advantage, which provides access to the ProPlus SKU of Office Continue Reading →

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is releasing Office 365 Message Encryption, a new service that will let you send encrypted emails to anyone outside your company, in the first quarter of 2014. This means that no matter the end destination of your email being sent via Office 365, Microsoft is adding another level of Continue Reading →

iPad owners tired of waiting for Microsoft to launch a version of Office for the tablet now have yet another option. Released Thursday, HopTo is a free iPad app that lets you view, edit, and create Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, and view PowerPoint presentations. The ability to edit a PowerPoint file is slated for Continue Reading →

Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft’s chief executive officer, would consider breaking with decades of tradition by focusing the company’s strategy around making the popular Office software programs like Word, Excel and PowerPoint available on a broad variety of smartphones and tablets, including those made by Apple and Google, said three Continue Reading →

It’s been six months since Microsoft launched Office 365, its subscription-based version of Office for businesses and consumers. Over 2 million consumers now subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium (the Office 365 “family pack” with five licenses) and 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies are using it in some form. This, Microsoft says, makes it Continue Reading →

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed that the company is planning to bring Office to the iPad with a touch user interface. Speaking at a Gartner event in Florida on Tuesday, Ballmer said “iPad will be picked up when there’s a touch first user interface.” That touch first interface appears to be making its way Continue Reading →

Android devices have a new productivity app to choose from and this time it’s Microsoft Office Mobile. The software, which launched on iOS in June, is freely available in the Google Play Store as of Wednesday. It’s not free to use, however, and is limited to Android phones; the software can’t be installed on Android Continue Reading →

After years of waiting, Microsoft Office has finally hit iOS. Available for iPhone, “Office Mobile for Office 365 Subscribers” lets you create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on your phone, just as you would on your computer. The app is free but requires an Office 365 subscription, which costs $100 per year or Continue Reading →

It’s finally happened. After so many years of speculation, an official app featuring all of Microsoft’s popular Office applications is available for the iPhone. It’s called ‘Office Mobile for Office 365 subscribers’, which is hardly the most attractive name, but a little besides the point at this stage. For iOS users with an active Office Continue Reading →