Office

On one of Microsoft's Office Insider blogs, a PM on the Excel team recently announced new functionality in the helpfully consistent evolution of Comments and Notes. Specifically, the debut of yellow sticky comments, now called Notes, in Excel for the web. There are also some new additions around threaded comments and the notes experience in… Read More

When Microsoft released the first build of Windows 11 last month, the company also indicated that they would be updating Office to match the design of Windows 11. While the initial release arrived a few days later than anticipated, the company has started to push the visual update to those participating in the Office Insider… Read More

Late last week, Microsoft announced Windows 11 and with it comes a significant update to the user interface. Today, the company is unveiling updates coming to Office that will update the interface to match that of the upcoming OS. If you are an Office Insider, you will soon see a new design that looks familiar… Read More

If you are riding on the Windows 10 and Office LTSC branches, your train is about to reach the station about 50% faster. Along with announcing that Office 2021 will be available later this year, the company is also cutting the support time in half. Starting with the LTSC release that will arrive in the… Read More

This month there is lots of new stuff and I am not even sure what my favorite is. Outlook reading to me, Power Apps letting me see the world differently, SharePoint being everywhere and nowhere at the same time, a bonus tip, and more. How about instead of me writing something clever you just dive… Read More

Back at Ignite, Microsoft announced that it was building a new mobile experience for iOS and Android users. Called the Office app, the application has been in beta since its announcement but that is changing today.

Back at Build 2019, Microsoft announced Fluid Framework, a way to integrate living content inside of Office applications. While news around the availability of the product has been a bit slim, there are signs of it coming to life with a preview that looks to be available to all Office 365 customers. Fluid Framework turns… Read More

Microsoft may soon release a new keyboard with a dedicated Office key with the devices internally codenamed Holgate.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we dive into who really owns your Office 365 deployment, Teams updates, and outages, as well as how Microsoft used Teams with HoloLens 2.

In our industry, we are witnessing IT teams delegating and partitioning shifting responsibilities, often on an ad-hoc basis, with the organization leaders content to allow this adaptive strategy in the short term until problems or conflicts begin to arise.

A new generation is being brought up not on Windows and Office, but with iPads and Chromebooks; Microsoft needs to find a way to win in the hardware space at the low end of the market.

In what Microsoft says will be the last cumulative update in 2018 before the holiday season, there are patches for 38 CVEs, including a zero-day.

Microsoft is releasing a new Office app for Windows 10 that is designed to make it easier to switch between apps and dive into previous tasks.

After acquiring the app, Microsoft rebranded it to Outlook and the rest is history; the email app remains one of the top downloaded applications for iOS and Android. But the founder, Javier Soltero, is departing Microsoft.

Microsoft is moving Cortana from AI to Office which likely signals a big shift in the way the company is going to position the digital assistant.