Hotmail and Outlook users hit by fresh round of service troubles

Users of Microsoft’s web-based email services have been hit by another round of technical difficulties, as the firm’s Hotmail to Outlook.com upgrades gather pace. According to the software giant’s Service Status page, Hotmail and Outlook users have experienced email access problems since yesterday evening. The firm’s cloud-based storage service…

Posted on: March 23, 2013 2:00 pm

Gmail update lets Jelly Bean users archive and reply to emails from notifications

Got a relatively recent version of Android on your smartphone? Good, because today, Google’s giving Jelly Bean users another reason to be happy. In the company’s latest update to Gmail, users will now find the ability to archive, delete and reply to incoming mail directly from the notifications drawer –…

Posted on: March 23, 2013 9:00 am

Use SharePoint without having yet another place to check information

If you use SharePoint as a company intranet, you might feel a little beleaguered having yet another place to check information. In the past, all pertinent information flowed to your inbox. It still can, by setting Alerts on the lists, libraries and pages important to you. You can even cause…

Posted on: March 23, 2013 9:00 am

Microsoft Details Yammer Integration with Office 365, SharePoint

Microsoft acquired enterprise social networking company Yammer last June for $1.2 billion with the assumption that the software giant would weave Yammer into as many existing Microsoft products as possible. Now, slowly but surely Microsoft is unveiling plans for Yammer. The first participant was Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which has had Yammer…

Posted on: March 23, 2013 9:00 am

SharePoint-Yammer integration promising, but a long-term plan

IDG News Service – CIOs and IT managers tracking the progress of the SharePoint-Yammer integration got more details about the road map this week, but the updates were a sobering reminder of the long road ahead as Microsoft works to mesh the two products. It’s been about eight months since…

Posted on: March 23, 2013 9:00 am

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Posted on: March 23, 2013 9:00 am

How do I sync my Microsoft Outlook calendar with my Samsung Galaxy S III?

First, you’ll need to install Google Calendar Sync, which automatically syncs your Outlook calendar entries with your Google Calendar account. This software allows you to sync calendar entries either one-way (from Outlook to Google or vice versa) or both ways (any changes made in either program will be reflected in…

Posted on: March 23, 2013 9:00 am

Microsoft Office Apps With JavaScript

A downloadable wall poster that documents the JavaScript API for Office is the latest ploy to persuade developers to create apps for the Office Store. Microsoft wants developers to extend the Office 2013 applications with apps using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST, OData, and OAuth. The idea There…

Posted on: March 23, 2013 9:00 am

How A Microsoft Engineer In India Is Fixing Attachment Embarrassment On Outlook

CREATOR: Bhavesh Chauhan, Microsoft, software engineerCREATION: Forgotten Attachment DetectorINNOVATION PIPELINE: Microsoft’s "Garage" 1. A CALL TO INNOVATION During a single week in late 2008, Bhavesh Chauhan, a software engineer in Hyderabad, India, received four emails with missing attachments. Wanting to end such embarrassments, he used free time to code an Chauhan: I…

Posted on: March 22, 2013 7:00 pm

Microsoft Sends Out Another Round of Windows Live Messenger Sunset Emails …

Microsoft has sent out emails to users, reminding them of the impending shut down of Windows Live Messenger as it’s replaced by Skype. The company is offering users one month of free Skype service in order to entice them to upgrade, which can be used to make "calls to landlines…

Posted on: March 22, 2013 7:00 pm