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Microsoft is 'almost' done with its largest-ever layoff sweep
Microsoft has handed out pink slips in a third round of job cuts that "almost" concludes its plan to eliminate 18,000 positions. The company announced in July that it would let go about 14 percent of its workforce, the largest set of job cuts in its history, but instead of axing them with one swing, Microsoft said it would carry out the job cuts over the course of its fiscal year, which ends in June of next year. Some critics termed this approach unwise, saying it would prolong uncertainty among employees, drag down staff morale, reignite concern among enterprise customers, give talking points to rivals and generate bad press for the company multiple times.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Microsoft slates Office 16 for second half of 2015
Microsoft will launch its next version of Office for Windows in the second half of 2015, according to an online report.ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley first reported on comments made by Julia White, general manager of marketing for Office and Office 365, at Microsoft's Tech Ed Europe conference in Barcelona.According to Foley, White said that the next version of Office on Windows would launch in the last half of next year, a broad timetable that was different from previous speculation, which had focused on the first half of 2015, perhaps as early as April.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Microsoft fires new shot in storage wars, gives Office 365 users unlimited OneDrive
Microsoft today abolished space restrictions on its cloud-based OneDrive storage service for subscribers to Office 365, saying per-user allotments are now unlimited."Moving forward, all Office 365 customers will get unlimited OneDrive storage at no additional cost," said Chris Jones, the Microsoft executive who heads the OneDrive and SharePoint teams, in a post on the firm's blog.Unlimited OneDrive will be available to any subscriber to Microsoft's "rent-not-buy" Office 365, including consumers (who can subscribe for as little as $6.99 per month), students and employees of businesses that have deployed Office 365.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Next Office for Mac leaks, shots of UI appear
A Chinese website yesterday published what it claimed were screenshots of Microsoft's next edition of Office for the Mac. Read More
Dell's Alienware 13 laptop lets users connect to external desktop graphics cards
The Alienware 13 will start at $999 and works with the newest external graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia. Read More
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Office 365 is getting management features for iOS, Android and Windows Phone
Organizations using Office 365 will soon be able to manage iOS, Android and Windows Phone smartphone and tablets without paying anything extra. The new features will let administrators remove corporate information and leave personal data; ensure email and documents are only synchronized on corporate phones and tablets; and prevent access from jailbroken devices using the Office 365 administration portal. With the announcement, Microsoft is hoping to show it's serious about mobile device and app management, because to date it simply hasn't done enough, according to Leif-Olof Wallin, research vice president at Gartner. The launch shows Microsoft has ambitions to become a more complete management vendor.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
OS X Yosemite adoption is breaking Windows
OS X Yosemite achieved the kind of adoption in four days that took Microsoft's Windows 8 two years to accomplish. Read More
Microsoft leans on data-center strength to get cloud edge
Microsoft wants to move monitoring and analytics to the cloud, automate management and take over high-performance computing work with its latest Azure products. That Microsoft wants to make the most of its strong position in enterprise data centers, hoping to move customers to Azure, became even more apparent at the TechEd Europe conference in Barcelona Tuesday. The company announced Azure Operational Insights, which extends the Azure hosted analytics, monitoring and management tools to on-premises equipment, simply by installing an agent on servers. It's possible to find missing system updates, capacity shortages and track server configuration changes, for example.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Microsoft opens Office 365 to programmers
Extending Office 365 functionality to third-party developers, Microsoft has exposed a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) so other companies can add features and capabilities to the online productivity service. The company announced the new functionality at the TechEd Europe conference, held this week in Barcelona. The APIs are a way for third-party programs to access the information and capabilities of the online office suite, including those for user mail, files, calendar and contacts. Microsoft is "clearly trying to keep Office front and center in the new world of mobile devices," wrote Al Hilwa, program director for software development research at IDC. "The approach of moving to APIs is the right strategy for providing extensibility to services like Office 365 in the era of cloud. I would expect that they will keep building on these APIs over time, but they are handling the most important areas in this wave, which relate to email integration."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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