Office 2016 for Mac users lambaste Microsoft after upgrading to Apple's OS X El Capitan

Computerworld Enterprise Apps October 05, 2015 Office 2016 for Mac users lambaste Microsoft after upgrading to Apple's OS X El Capitan After Apple released the new OS X El Capitan on Wednesday, users streamed to a Microsoft support discussion forum to report that Office 2016 for Mac regularly crashed, crippling their productivity. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Microsoft slashes value of Office 2016 upgrade offer 2. Amazon launches managed Elasticsearch service 3. INSIDER Scriptshow: Performing five common administrative tasks using Windows PowerShell 4. iPhone malware YiSpecter -- in the App Store almost a YEAR 5. IBM brings Bluemix behind the firewall for sensitive workloads 6. Microsoft's browser upgrade decree proves disastrous for IE 7. IDG Contributor Network: SharePoint Server 2016 preview overview 8. Microsoft stays in the on-premises email server game with launch of Exchange 2016 9. What could possibly go wrong? 10. 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READ MORE Amazon launches managed Elasticsearch service Amazon announced a new service that's designed to make it easier to spin up and operate the popular Elasticsearch open-source search and analytics engine. READ MORE INSIDER Scriptshow: Performing five common administrative tasks using Windows PowerShell Want to add a bunch of users without going out of your mind? We show you how to do that, and more. (Insider - free registration required.) READ MORE iPhone malware YiSpecter -- in the App Store almost a YEAR iPhones are vulnerable to malware distributed via the Apple App Store. YiSpecter is the latest malicious app that Apple's crack security team let slip through the net -- despite being warned about the problem in February... READ MORE IBM brings Bluemix behind the firewall for sensitive workloads IBM's Bluemix development platform is already available in public and hosted private cloud versions. Now, the company has announced a third option for customers that need to build apps behind a firewall. READ MORE White Paper: Windstream Communications The Path to Value in the Cloud The Path to Value in the Cloud, by Oxford Economics and Windstream, brings together the latest insights, tactics and strategies C-suite respondents are using to make the cloud work for them. Learn More Microsoft's browser upgrade decree proves disastrous for IE Market share is slipping. And projections by Computerworld, based on the the rate of decline in the up-for-retirement IE editions, now point to between 39% and 41% of those running a Microsoft browser in January being severed from security updates. READ MORE IDG Contributor Network: SharePoint Server 2016 preview overview Just when you are getting cozy and comfortable with SharePoint 2013, the SharePoint Server 2016 preview is released. READ MORE Microsoft stays in the on-premises email server game with launch of Exchange 2016 Microsoft launched the 2016 edition of its Exchange Server software. READ MORE What could possibly go wrong? Amateur Quality Assurance testers on a credit-card application system that has already gone live -- yeah, that's a recipe for No Problems At All, right? READ MORE How News Corp is uniting 10 business units and 25,000 employees in a global IT push Among the initial goals for the IT transformation: To get 75% of News Corp's computing power onto the cloud within three years, to consolidate its 50 data centers down to six, and to achieve $100 million in savings over three years. READ MORE White Paper: SAS Institute Inc Three Big Benefits of Big Data Analytics Google, eBay and LinkedIn were among the first to experiment with big data. They developed proof of concept and small-scale projects to learn if their analytical models could be improved with new data sources. 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