Australian MP claims calendar-sharing ‘security breach’
Liberal backbencher Alby Schultz has questioned whether a calendar-sharing feature of Microsoft’s email program Outlook amounts to a security breach for members of parliament (MPs). Schultz told parliament that he had discovered the "serious security issue" last Thursday, when it was brought to his attention that people using Outlook could…
Microsoft Office 365 Will Swallow Office 2013: Prediction
Will Office 2013 be Microsoft’s final major desktop office suite upgrade? Talkin’ Cloud is betting yes. Check out Microsoft’s new pricing for Office 2013 and Office 365. Read between the lines and it’s clear Microsoft is using desktop software subscription services as a potential stepping stone toward full-blown cloud services. Yes, customers can…
Instant-messaging services explode in Asia, challenge Facebook and other …
SEOUL, South Korea — A handful of smartphone apps that began as basic instant-messaging services have amassed several hundred million users in Asia in just a couple of years, mounting a challenge to the popularity of online hangouts such as Facebook as they branch into games, e-commerce, celebrity news and…
‘Introduction of Office 365 to Fuel Businesses Across Regions’
Following the introduction of Microsoft Office 365 to the global markets including Nigeria, the Information Worker Business Group Lead, Microsoft Africa, Marc Israel has said with optimism that the solution has potential to fuel business and economic transformation across the region by delivering cost-effective, flexible access to enterprise-class IT. Israel, who…
Anglian Water integrates Sharepoint and LiveLink for new ECM system
Anglian Water is in the process of migrating over one million documents to its new enterprise content management (ECM) system, which was implemented by Infosys and integrates Open Text’s LiveLink and Microsoft’s Sharepoint. It hopes that the new system, dubbed Hawk, will allow each of its 4,500 employees to find "Our…
Missing email could be misidentified spam
Q. I always check my email on the Internet using my Web browser before opening Microsoft Outlook each morning. The past two months, two vendors, Reliant and AT&T, which happens to be my internet provider, send their bills and they show up on via the Web interface but do not…
Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments
Q. I received an email with an attachment that I need. The problem is that Outlook is telling me that it has blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments. I really need this file. Is there any way to retrieve it? A. One of the most common delivery systems…
Gmail, Google Docs and more dropping support for IE8 this year
After all these years, Windows XP is finally starting to fade away. The popular OS held strong against its first successor, the lackluster Windows Vista, and even proved remarkably resilient against the well-received Windows 7. But with 7 taking the lead on OS market share, and Windows 8 releasing in Earlier this week…
Skype 5.11 Beta Offers Windows Live Messenger Integration
I use Windows Live Messenger only because I have to. But with the release of the Skype 5.11 Beta this week, I may no longer have to: This new Skype version now integrates with the Messenger network, and provides all of the features I need from Windows Live Messenger. Fantastic. In…
Microsoft Office as the Netflix of productivity suites
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