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Office

Microsoft beats estimates as surging cloud business counteracts slump in PCs and phones

Microsoft beat revenue and profit expectations for its first fiscal quarter, as revenue from its Office 365 and Windows Azure… Read More

The New New Microsoft: Revamped divisions debut with earnings this week

Apps, The Cloud, and Windows/Devices. Microsoft uses fancier terms, but that’s the simple way of looking at the company’s new financial reporting… Read More

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‘Recalc or Die’: 30 years later, Microsoft Excel 1.0 vets recount a project that defied the odds

Microsoft has recently been making lots of apps for iOS and Android, despite the fact that those platforms are rivals to… Read More

Microsoft’s Office 2016 for Windows debuts with built-in Skype, real-time co-authoring on desktop

Microsoft officially released Office 2016 for Windows this morning — attempting to retool its productivity suite for the modern era of online collaboration,… Read More

Microsoft Office 2016 comes to the general public on Sept. 22 with collaborative editing for the desktop

Microsoft’s Office 2016 is almost here. According to a post on the Office 365 blog, the productivity suite will be “broadly… Read More

How Microsoft is updating Office for the iPad Pro and Apple Watch

Microsoft was the first guest Apple brought on stage to demo features for its new iPad Pro today. Microsoft Office executive Kirk… Read More

Apple unveils new iPad Pro, with keyboard and stylus — and Microsoft is first on stage to tout it

Apple just unveiled a new model of the iPad, the iPad Pro, with a whopping 12.9-inch screen, and a pair… Read More

Microsoft updates Outlook for iOS with improved attachment editing

Outlook for iOS just keeps getting better. An update Microsoft posted today now lets you open Word, PowerPoint and Excel files directly in… Read More

Microsoft releases Sway storytelling app, plus new Windows 10 version

Ten months after unveiling Sway as a new member of its Office family, Microsoft is officially releasing the digital storytelling app… Read More

Microsoft officially launches Office for Android phones

Microsoft is rolling out the official Office app to Android users after a test phase that started last month. Android users… Read More

Box partners with Microsoft to bring Office Online document editing to cloud storage platform

Box users can now edit and create Microsoft Office documents via Office Online, without leaving the cloud storage service. The… Read More

Dropbox and Microsoft deepen integration, expanding Office Online partnership

  Dropbox and Microsoft Office announced a series of new integrations this morning — including the ability to edit Word, PowerPoint… Read More

Microsoft at 40: How the company has changed, and stayed the same

Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1975, two friends from Seattle formed a partnership called “Micro-soft.” In an email to Microsoft employees… Read More

Microsoft buys presentation startup LiveLoop, continuing acquisition spree

Microsoft has quite the appetite for productivity startups as of late, and the company is continuing its acquisition spree with… Read More

Best buds Samsung and Microsoft strike deal to pre-install Office on Android tablets

Samsung and Microsoft, which until recently were fighting it out in court, today deepened their business relationship — saying they will work together… Read More

Microsoft exec: Why Apple and Google have an advantage, and how Microsoft plans to compete

If you use an iPhone, you’re more likely to use Safari than someone who doesn’t use an iPhone. Google Chrome… Read More

Microsoft launches preview of Office 2016 for Mac, full release coming later this year

Microsoft launched a public preview version of Office 2016 for Mac that allows users of Apple’s platform to get a… Read More

Microsoft Office adds cloud support for Box, iCloud Drive and more

Microsoft opened up its Office productivity suite for integration with outside cloud storage providers today, giving users the ability to easily access files… Read More

Microsoft launches preview of Office apps for Windows 10

Microsoft has launched a new preview of its Office apps for Windows 10 today, giving users early access to the… Read More

Office 2016 is coming this year, touch-native Office coming with Windows 10

Fans of Microsoft Office have some new tools to look forward to in the coming year. Microsoft gave the public… Read More

Office for Android tablet beta opens up on Google Play

It’s open season for most Android tablet users who want to try out Microsoft’s Office for Android beta. Starting today,… Read More

Big changes ahead for Windows: ‘We’ve got to monetize it differently,’ says Microsoft exec

Microsoft Windows has made headway in the market for low-end laptops and tablets this year by reducing the price it charges device… Read More

Microsoft adds Bing image search to its Sway presentation tool

Microsoft has enhanced its new Sway web-based presentation tool with the ability to directly add content from a Bing image search… Read More

New update allows editing of Office documents in Gmail

Google updated its Drive cloud storage and productivity service to let Gmail users edit Microsoft Office documents they receive without… Read More

Microsoft report card: Grading Satya Nadella’s first year as CEO, so far

Microsoft investors will gather Wednesday morning for a yearly tradition, the company’s annual shareholders meeting at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Wash.… Read More

Microsoft’s mega-subscription: Office, Xbox Live, Xbox Music and Skype, for $199/year

Microsoft fans, this bundle is for you. The Redmond company today launched a new $199 annual plan that combines four of the company’s subscriptions… Read More

Microsoft releases preview of Office for Android tablets, sneak peek of Office for Windows 10

In addition to unlocking free document editing for Office users on iOS and Android tablets and smartphones, Microsoft this morning… Read More

Microsoft partners with cloud rival Dropbox on Office integration

Microsoft and Dropbox announced a key partnership today that will allow Dropbox users to access their cloud-based files while using… Read More

Microsoft updates Outlook for Mac; new Office for Mac set for 2015

Microsoft this morning released a new version of its Outlook for Mac email client with improvements in the user interface… Read More

Box updates Android app, offers LG users free storage

Box announced today a redesigned Android app with a handful of new features designed to give people on Google’s platform a… Read More

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