Office Software
Microsoft Word to get AI-powered text prediction feature next month
It will help users to write more efficiently by predicting text quickly and accurately, the company claims
Microsoft rolls out new features for Teams
Improvements include faster launches, lower power consumption and a 7x7 grid view of call participants
Pay-once-use-forever is not dead yet says Microsoft, announcing new perpetual licence for Office
But the next versions of SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, Project Server and Skype for Business Server are subscription-only
Microsoft to migrate Office 365 Personal and Home users to Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 will add new cloud-based features to Office 365 Personal and Home subscribers
Google beta-testing offline storage for 'non-Google' file formats
Testing restricted to those with G Suite organisation accounts
Microsoft facing GDPR fine over Office 365 telemetry
25,000 'events' Office 365 recorded and shared among 30 engineering teams at Microsoft
Is email - and Microsoft Outlook in particular - broken beyond repair?
The tools for handling the mountain of email we receive every day simply aren't good enough
Nineteen critical bug fixes in Microsoft Patch Tuesday - including a remote code execution flaw affecting HoloLens
Patch Tuesday isn't going away just yet, although Adobe may be kicking its patch habit
OpenOffice considers closure after project is eclipsed by Libre Office
Too few volunteers even to patch major security flaws following LibreOffice "fork"
Microsoft warning over malware that exploits security holes in Word
Remember Word macro viruses? This is even worse
Microsoft Excel errors mar one-fifth of science papers on gene research
Over-zealous date conversion to blame
Salesforce buys Quip for $582m in direct challenge to Microsoft Office 365
Salesforce to take on Microsoft and Google with Quip cloud collaboration purchase
Microsoft Office 365 and Azure experience widespread outage
Hundreds take to Twitter as Microsoft service page insists 'no known issues'
Microsoft launches Office 2016; says it's still 'leading the way' in productivity tools
Some new bells and whistles, but mostly just a solid cloud-based update
Why Apple's iPad Pro is absolutely no good for the enterprise
It'll sell by the bucketload, but does this shiny new hybrid actually have what enterprise productivity requires?
Everest-FI: 'Business success today largely depends on the possession of the right information'
Sponsored Editorial: In today's climate, it's important to develop a rapid-access internal economic-financial ecosystem
Paddy Power to move to Windows 10 but is still deciding between Office 365 or Google Apps
CIO Fin Goulding heaps praise on Microsoft for starting to listen to customers more since Satya Nadella took over the CEO job
West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive selects ProjectVault for secure document management
'It's so simple but very effective,' says Mark Ashmore of software that will aid Birmingham Metro extension
Microsoft's life beyond Windows
Open sourcing .NET, embracing the iPad and making Azure a platform for the ages. Has Microsoft finally got itself sorted?
Microsoft and Dropbox to offer Dropbox integration with Office365 - starting with Apple iOS and Android, not Windows Phone
Deal represents shift at Microsoft to provide more integration with third-party cloud services
Build gives Windows developers reasons to be cheerful
The developer conference brought us open-sourced languages, Windows going free, and apps to span all Microsoft platforms. Has the software giant finally got its mojo back, asks Peter Gothard
How Allianz insures against data mishaps
Peter Gothard reports on how Allianz Insurance Ireland is using software to minimise the risk of data breaches occurring as a result of human error
Government wants to drop Microsoft Office for open source alternatives
Francis Maude says switch will result in cost savings and better collaboration
International Airlines Group adopts Microsoft Office 365
Group comprising British Airways and Iberia selects Microsoft tools to aid collaboration between its 58,000 staff
