Entries from 2017-04-01 to 1 month

Driving global business transformation with Office 365

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today’s post was written by John Hill, chief information officer for Veyance Technologies. About five years ago, Veyance Technologies became an independent company after being carved out of Goodyear. Veyance man…

The power of the new Outlook on Windows RT

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Learn the latest about the power of the new Outlook: Outlook 2013 RT. It’s the same Outlook you know and love, and it’s coming to Windows RT tablets such as the Microsoft Surface later this year. Folks with Wind…

Webinar: Simplifying your Excel Data

www.office.com/setup Blogs: In this week’s webinar you’ll learn how to make a massive sheet of numbers something that can tell a story with just a few clicks. We’ll also show you a better what to show data in a presentation. Can’t view thi…

Chip In for higher ed success

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today, we launched Chip In, a crowd-funding site to help students get a new PC for college. Just like a wedding registry, students sign up for the PC of their choice at www.windowschipin.com. Then, they can ask …

What’s new in SharePoint Server 2013 for IT professionals

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Bill Baer is a Senior Product Marketing Manager on the SharePoint team. In today’s volatile economic climate, organizations require collaboration, communication, and productivity solutions to be both cost-effect…

Organizing for Velocity

www.office.com/setup Blogs: In previous posts, Pavan Tapadia and Peter Fishman explained how Yammer uses data and experimentation to guide our product development in order to ensure that what we’re building for our customers will give them…

Gaining a single collaborative workspace with Office 365

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today’s post was written by Office 365 customer Kate Tikoian, Director of IT, LEVICK When challenges arise, LEVICK can make the difference that leads to a positive outcome. LEVICK is a leading strategic communic…

Outlook 2013 RT Coming to Windows RT Tablets as part of Windows 8.1 Update

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today at Computex 2013, Tami Reller, CFO and CMO of Microsoft’s Windows Division, announced that Outlook 2013 RT will be available on Windows RT tablets as part of the free Windows 8.1 update coming later this y…

AIIM and Microsoft: Working together on the future of ECM

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today, 70% of organizations use SharePoint, but 50% express concern around whether SharePoint can meet key compliance requirements and serve as an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. These numbers come f…

Top travel tips for summer

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Kristin Luna is a seasoned journalist for a host of travel and lifestyles magazines and shares her adventures via her blog Camels & Chocolate. She also runs a digital marketing company, Odinn Media, and is the c…

How the new Office helps me manage my “mompreneur” life

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Guest blogger Erica Diamond is the founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning women’s lifestyle blog, WomenOnTheFence.com, and the new global Get Off The Fence Movement. As a busy blogger, mom, entrepreneu…

What To Do After Joining Yammer

www.office.com/setup Blogs: You’ve just joined Yammer. Awesome! Now you’re probably wondering, “So what do I do next?” Below are a few suggestions for what to do after signing into Yammer for the first time: 1. Join groups. First join your…

OneNote is hiring, come join the team!

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Do you love OneNote? Do you love working with super cool people? Good news: OneNote is hiring Developers and Testers for the OneNote team in the Seattle area. If you are interested in working on a product used b…

Driving global business transformation with Office 365

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today’s post was written by John Hill, chief information officer for Veyance Technologies. About five years ago, Veyance Technologies became an independent company after being carved out of Goodyear. Veyance man…

The power of the new Outlook on Windows RT

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Learn the latest about the power of the new Outlook: Outlook 2013 RT. It’s the same Outlook you know and love, and it’s coming to Windows RT tablets such as the Microsoft Surface later this year. Folks with Wind…

April 2017 updates for Get & Transform in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Excel 2016 includes a powerful set of features based on the Power Query technology, which provides fast, easy data gathering and shaping capabilities and can be accessed through the Get & Transform section on th…

SharePoint evaluated as a Leader in latest edition of The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Content Management

www.office.com/setup Blogs: We are very pleased to see SharePoint evaluated as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Content Management—Business Content Services, Q2 2017. As Forrester noted: Microsoft instigates content-in-the-cloud…

New educator-focused features in Microsoft Forms

www.office.com/setup Blogs: When teachers talk, we listen. Now that Microsoft Forms is generally available, we have been responding to millions of requests for new features—especially from educators who rely on Forms in their classrooms. T…

New to Sway—recording, closed caption, navigation, autoplay and view counts

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Over the last few months, we’ve been on the ground asking users what features they would like to see in the Sway app. We heard all the ways you use Sway in your personal, school and work lives, and listened to t…

Come try the Outlook for Mac Preview with Google Calendar and Contacts

www.office.com/setup Blog: Last month, we announced that we’re bringing major improvements to how Google Accounts work in Outlook 2016 for Mac—including an improved setup experience and Google Calendar and Contacts support. We’re excited t…

Office Online Server April 2017 release

www.office.com/setup Blogs: We are excited to announce our second major update to Office Online Server (OOS), which includes support for Windows Server 2016 as well as several improvements. OOS allows organizations to provide users with br…

Introducing Groups in Outlook for Mac, iOS and Android

www.office.com/setup Blogs: More than 10 million people rely on Groups in Outlook every month to work together and get things done. Groups is proving useful to our customers. And for that, we couldn’t be more thankful. Groups in Outlook of…

Announcing general availability of Office 365 from local datacenters in South Korea

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today, as part of our deep and continued commitment to make Office 365 the most trusted cloud service for productivity, we are announcing the general availability of Office 365 from our new cloud datacenters in …

Garage Series: Best of stunts and demos

www.office.com/setup Blogs: In this episode of the new Office Garage Series, we look back at some of the best moments of Season 1 from XStream Office installs in air, on land and water and some of the best demos as we helped answer your to…

Thanks a million

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today, thanks to you, the new Office is officially the best-selling Office edition yet, with more than one sold every second on average since it launched. And if that wasn’t enough, in just over 100 days, you’ve…

Why Office 365 is right for my family

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today’s post is from Suzanne Emberton, a mother of six and full-time IT support analyst in Tennessee. Suzanne is an avid Office user, and in this post, she explains why Office 365 Home Premium is the right fit f…

New study: People want social tools at work; weigh in at “The Worldwide Water Cooler”

www.office.com/setup Blogs: We’re big believers that enterprise social is the new cornerstone of workplace collaboration. It addresses the changing nature of work, and the changing demographics of the workforce. We’re not alone here. We ju…

How-To: Add Some Color to Your Yammer Profile

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Yammer is a great tool for finding and connecting with experts across your company that you may not know or do not work with frequently. Post a question on Yammer and you’ll likely receive answers from people yo…

Adam Pisoni Shares Thoughts in Attenzi: A Social Business Story

www.office.com/setup Blogs: The following is an except of Adam Pisoni’s, Yammer Co-Counder, forward to Attenzi: A Social Business Story by Philip Sheldrake. This book explores how social business impacts individuals, companies and communit…

Managing project schedules in Project Professional vs. Project Online / PWA

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Project Professional 2013 and Project Online / PWA are distinct tools which work together, empowering businesses to deliver winning projects while effectively executing and achieving strategic priorities. People…