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After unveiling new Office, Microsoft has now released an update for Office for Mac 2011. In addition to equipping the fixes, it enables Mac users to choose the software suite as the subscription model and install it on up to 5 Mac machines. The 14.3 update provides the latest fixes to Office for Mac 2011 and also includes [...]
The new Microsoft Office is now available, allowing users to choose between four different versions: the subscription version of Office 365 Home Premium with Office app connectivity, the desktop versions of Office Home & Student 2013, Office Home & Business 2013 and Office Professional 2013. The Office 365 Home Premium costs $99.99 a year and includes [...]
The promo offers by Microsoft for Windows 8 are ending shortly. The prices for Windows 8 upgrade editions would be more expensive starting from February 1st, 2013. Some claimed Windows 8 a failure, but eventually Microsoft is “seeing good momentum with Windows 8″ and has sold out 60 million copies so far. If poor sales of Windows 8 were [...]
Now this is what amazes everyone! A 9 year old boy from California, named Pranav Kalyan has become the youngest Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS). Pranav Kalyan is a 4th grade student at Willow Elementary School in California and has passed the MCTS exam in ASP.NET 3.5 on 12 January. He dreams to be a scientist in [...]
Its official now! Microsoft has announced the acquisition over id8 Group R2 Studios for undisclosed amounts in a press release. Last week, it was reported via WSJ that Microsoft was in talks with R2 Studios while both Google and Apple had tried to negotiate the deal too, but could not get success. But this news was to be confirmed [...]
Windows Live team announces today that Messenger will retire on March 15, 2013 and will be replaced by Skype client. Starting from March 15, users won’t be able to sign in with messenger and be prompted to switch Skype. Earlier Skype president Tony Bates acknowledged that Windows Live Messenger would come to end sometime in [...]
Microsoft has sold 60 million licenses of Windows 8 since its launch on October 26. These numbers doesn’t mean that there are 60 million users of Windows 8, it includes retail sales of full version, upgrades as well as licenses purchased by OEMs to equip their PCs. Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer [...]
After a recent vulnerability that allowed advertisers to record mouse movements of users, the Internet Explorer browser is again under-attack. Microsoft has confirmed a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows hackers to take control over a PC via infected web page. Microsoft Security Advisory (2794220) reads: The vulnerability is a remote code execution [...]
