Ballmer has re-ignited anticipation for an iPad version of the Microsoft Office suite. Don't get too excited yet, though. Ballmer told an audience at a Gartner event in Florida that the iPad version won't come until after a touch-first version is developed for Windows.
Apple has made iWork for iCloud available to the masses. It's technically still in beta, but now anyone can use the Cloud-based versions of Pages, Numbers, or Keynote from an iCloud account. The question is whether or not iWork is the right suite of tools for you to use.
Finding your way around Facebook's advertising and promotions system can be, to put it bluntly, a monumentally difficult task.
Microsoft has released a Developer Preview version of IE 11 for Windows 7. Newer doesn't always equal better, but IE 11 has some power under the hood that business users will benefit from.
In a new study of Canadian small businesses, American Express (with Rogers Connect Market Research) has taken an in-depth look at how small businesses feel about their future prospects and how they're approaching the complex issue of corporate branding.
Microsoft continues to be an industry leader, generating healthy profits from sales of its Windows operating system and productivity software, such as Office. But Microsoft could learn a lesson from BlackBerry's ongoing problems.
Ever since Microsoft introduced Office 365 Home Premium subscriptions in January, we've been wondering when Microsoft might give up on packaged versions of Office.
I'm all in with Microsoft. I've got Windows 8 running on my primary work machine, I subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium , and I use almost every online consumer service that the company offers.
LinkedIn celebrates several major milestones this week: Its 10th birthday and 225 million users. Not bad for a site that started with 4500 members and has grown into the world's largest professional social network.
Although Microsoft is staying mum about Windows 8 tablet sales, research firm Strategy Analytics has some slightly encouraging news.
Microsoft just can't seem to keep a lid on it: A new development version of Windows 8.1, aka Windows Blue, was leaked this week on P2P sites, showing some new tweaks and improvements.
In just one year, on April 8, 2014, Microsoft will stop delivering security updates for Windows XP, the second most popular operating system in the world. Microsoft issued several blog posts Monday urging businesses to get out before it was too late.
Since the dawn of personal computers there have been predictions of an all-digital future where paper was little but a distant memory. Decades later, it seems like we've made progress toward the "paperless office," but the Utopian vision is still a long way off.
Microsoft has heard the uproar from customers over the draconian Office 2013 licensing limitations, and it has relented. Today, Microsoft announced an update to Office 2013 retail licensing agreement that should quell the uprising and force customers to put away the torches and pitchforks.
As promised, Microsoft has delivered the final pieces of its new Office lineup, rolling out several new global editions for businesses.
