Microsoft Corporation : Peel District School Board gives Office 365 high marks
REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Peel District School Board, Canada’s second-largest public school board, has deployed Microsoft Office 365 to more than 150,000 students, administrators and staff members. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) "Our focus is always on our students and equipping and preparing them for future success," said…
Microsoft Launches Student Advantage with Free Office Suite
Students will get free access provided university or school is already paying. Microsoft today announced the official launch of its latest program to give students access to Office. Redmond revealed that student attending a school that licenses Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus for staff and faculty will now Microsoft…
The GOP’s toxic messaging
"Obamacare" may be fraught with potentially lethal problems, including the bungling of information as people sign up without any guarantee of privacy, but nothing is more toxic than "this is going to be a disaster." Every time Republicans slam on the brakes, Obama tosses coins and candy into the crowds….
Microsoft’s “Threshold” to unify Xbox One, Windows
According to a report at GameSpot sister site ZDnet, Microsoft is planning to release its next wave of operating systems–codenamed Threshold–in spring 2015. Sources confirmed to reporter Mary J. Foley that Microsoft executive vice president Terry Myerson used the name "Threshold" in an internal email recently. If plans hold, Threshold will…
Mint makes its way to Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8
Microsoft, meet Mint. Just in time to plan your holiday shopping budget, personal finance app Mint is finally available on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8 starting today. The app is free and ready to download from both the Windows and Windows Phone app stores. Unlike the recent Instagram app for Windows…
Here’s How To Undo A Sent Email In Gmail
Gmail Lab’s Undo Send feature gives you 10 seconds to save yourself the embarrassment.You clicked send. Oh crap. When you send a no-take-backs email maybe an admission to a secret crush, or accidental reply-all there’s an instant pang of regret. It feels like there’s no going back. Meet Gmail’s Undo…
Get ready for the Office, SharePoint, and Exchange 2013 SP1 service packs
Early 2014 will see Service Pack 1 updates for Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Exchange 2013 (but apparently not Lync), bringing the on-premises versions of these servers and applications up to par with the then-current Office 365 versions. It appears that issuing periodic service packs is how Microsoft will keep Of course, it’s not a sure…
Botched Outlook 2013 patches KB 2837618 and KB 2837643 break Out Of …
Shortly after November’s Black Tuesday patches rolled out of the automatic update chute, the Microsoft Answers forum started to light up with customers complaining about a wide array of Outlook 2013 problems: Outlook would hang when trying to sync IMAP accounts; trying to set up Out of Office replies on At…
MetaVis Bridges Governace Gaps in Office 365, SharePoint Online
MetaVis just unveiled new capabilities for Office 365 and SharePoint Online that will provide users with tighter administration and governance of their cloud-based content. According to MetaVis, the capabilities fill important holes in Office 365 environments by offering views of everything that happens to content inside those environments. Office 365 The new SharePoint…
Microsoft now allows teachers to give students Office 365 for free
If you’re an instructor at a school that licenses Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus, today you can officially give your students access to those programs at no additional cost. First announced back in October, Microsoft’s Student Advantage program launches today for more than 35,000 educational institutions worldwide. In a blog…
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