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  • The Microsoft store sign is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 18, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

    Some Microsoft services, including Office, are suffering from an outage

    It's not just you who is having trouble accessing Microsoft services this morning. An outage is causing problems for many users around the world.

    Kris Holt
    07.30.2024
  • UKRAINE - 2021/06/26: In this photo illustration a Microsoft Teams logo is seen on a smartphone and a pc screen. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    Microsoft to unbundle Teams in Europe in bid to avoid EU antitrust fine

    The move comes after a European Commission probe into the company's practices.

    Sarah Fielding
    08.31.2023
  • Promotional screenshot showing Microsoft 365 Copilot (AI tools in action). A Spotify playlist called "Chill Vibes" is at the center with an open browser and other apps behind it. The Copilot AI sidebar sits to the right.

    Microsoft will charge businesses $30 per user for its 365 AI Copilot

    At the Microsoft Inspire partner event today, the Windows maker announced pricing for its AI-infused Copilot for Microsoft 365. The suite of contextual artificial intelligence tools, the fruit of the company’s OpenAI partnership, will cost $30 per user for business accounts. In addition, the company is launching Bing Chat Enterprise, a privacy-focused version of the AI chatbot with greater security and peace of mind for handling sensitive business data.

    Will Shanklin
    07.18.2023
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    Microsoft is killing its Office app on Chromebooks

    Microsoft is pulling support for its Office app for Android on Chrome OS. The web app will still be available, but it lacks offline access.

    Dana Wollman
    08.25.2021
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    Microsoft boosts Teams with new presenter tools and PowerPoint integration

    At its Ignite conference today, the company announced a slew of updates for its video chat tool, as well as new made-for-Teams speakers.

    Cherlynn Low
    03.02.2021
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    Microsoft's unified Office experience comes to iPad

    Microsoft's combined Office app offers quick editing features optimized for smaller screens.

    Saqib Shah
    02.16.2021
  • An user opening Gmail App with the new logo in L'Aquila, Italy, on October 23, 2020. After seven years Google Mail Gmail changes its logo. (Photo by Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

    Google adds document editing to Gmail attachments in Workspace

    Google is making it a lot easier to edit Microsoft Office documents sent as Gmail attachments.

    Karissa Bell
    12.10.2020
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    Microsoft adds mouse and trackpad support to Office apps on iPad

    This spring, Apple added mouse and trackpad support to the iPad with a software update, and ever since then, users with business to take care of have been waiting for Microsoft’s Office suite to include the feature. Now, 9to5Mac points out that Microsoft says a “phased rollout” is bringing the feature to its Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps on the platform. Microsoft also said the update is bringing new start screens and feature menus that expand its Fluent design language across the apps.

    Richard Lawler
    10.27.2020
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    Microsoft 365 is now available worldwide

    Microsoft Office 365 is now called Microsoft 365, and the company wants not only workers, but also families, to use its software.

    Marc DeAngelis
    04.21.2020
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    Microsoft's all-in-one Office app is now available to all

    Microsoft's all-in-one Office app is ready for primetime. The mobile-first application, which the company announced last November, has already been available as a public preview. That version was limited to Android users that signed up through a specific Google Group and 10,000 iOS testers that registered via Apple's TestFlight program, however. The consumer-ready Android app slipped into the Play Store earlier this week -- a littler earlier than planned, a Microsoft spokesperson told Engadget -- and now the iPhone version is officially out of beta. For now, the Android app has "limited" tablet support, and there's no iPad-specific version.

    Nick Summers
    02.19.2020
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    Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 Mobile Office apps in 2021

    The end is nigh for Windows 10 Mobile. We already knew that technical support for the mobile operating system would end on December 10th, 2019 (yep, that's tomorrow). Now, we have an official end-of-life date for the Windows 10 Mobile Office apps, too: January 12th, 2021. From that point onwards, the much-loved software suite -- including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote -- won't receive any bug fixes, security updates and general technical support. The apps will still work, Microsoft confirmed, but you won't be able to install them on any new devices.

    Nick Summers
    12.09.2019
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    Microsoft's new Office app for mobile combines Word, Excel and Powerpoint

    Microsoft's having a busy Monday morning, and for anyone that uses Office on the go, its new app might be the major gamechanger.

    Mat Smith
    11.04.2019
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    Microsoft drops one-off Office licenses from its Home Use Program

    From Netflix to phone apps, tech companies love to chase that sweet, reliable subscription money. Microsoft is no different, joining the charge to sell its Office products as a subscription service. While users have traditionally purchased the Office suite as a one-off perpetual license, the company is pushing customers toward an annual subscription instead.

    Georgina Torbet
    08.12.2019
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    Microsoft drops the 'Online' name from its Office web apps

    The next time you fire up any of the web versions of Microsoft's Office applications, you might notice something slightly different about them. Starting "relatively soon," Microsoft is dropping the "Online" branding of its Office Online suite and will refer to the web apps as simply Office. The decision means that the company's products like "Word Online" and "PowerPoint Online" will now simply be "Word" and "PowerPoint." The same goes for the rest of Microsoft's line of Office apps.

    AJ Dellinger
    07.24.2019
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    Excel quickly adds data from iPhone photos into spreadsheets

    Microsoft Excel is making its "Insert Data from Picture" feature available on the iOS app. The AI-powered tool lets Excel users take pictures on their phone of data and convert it into a spreadsheet in seconds. The new function debuted at Microsoft's Ignite event last September and has already been released for Android. Combining a mix of image recognition and AI, it's a useful perk for both chronic and occasional Excel users that will eliminate hours wasted on manual input.

    Amrita Khalid
    05.29.2019

  • Microsoft's Office apps officially launch for (some) Android phones

    Right, well that was fairly quick. Microsoft gave us a taste of how its Office apps would look on Android phones in a preview just last month, and now they're ready for public consumption. Word, Powerpoint and Excel are available for your delectation -- for free, no less -- in the Google Play Store right now, just with one big caveat. Those pesky prior limitations are still in effect here, so don't expect to run these things on a phone without at least 1GB of RAM and anything older than Android 4.4 KitKat.

    Chris Velazco
    06.24.2015

  • UK government department swaps Microsoft for Google

    For the longest time, the UK government built its systems around Microsoft software. That's still largely the case, but things have slowly changed as departments get to grips with the cloud, and companies like Google have planted their flag. The Register reports that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has decided it's time to make a clean break and has embraced the search giant's cloud services, becoming the first major UK government department to shift away from Microsoft.

    Matt Brian
    06.05.2015

  • Microsoft reveals Office preview for Android smartphones

    Microsoft has been enthusiastically rolling out touch-friendly Android (and iOS) versions of Office, even before it launches on its own OS. It just outed a preview version for Android smartphones, although this time, Windows did get it first. As with the tablet version, Microsoft said the apps marry the "familiar look, feel and quality of Office" apps -- including Word, Excel and PowerPoint -- to a touch-friendly smartphone experience. You'll be able to open documents not only from Redmond's OneDrive, but also via Google Drive, Dropbox, and a few other cloud services.

    Steve Dent
    05.19.2015

  • Microsoft makes Office for iPad free to use, starts testing Android tablet version

    Considering how popular Office has been on the desktop, you'd assume it'd be the go-to productivity suite on mobile too. In fact, though, the company has made a few missteps: The iPhone app is watered down, and as nice as the iPad version is, you need an Office subscription to do any sort of editing. Fortunately, though, Microsoft is changing course: The company just announced that it will offer basic editing as a standard feature on the iPad, the same way it already does on Android and the iPhone. Keep in mind that you'll still need an Office 365 subscription to unlock certain advanced editing tools, but most of those are probably better-suited to business users anyway. Additionally, the company is beginning public beta testing on its first-ever Android tablet app, which will see a wide release early next year. The software, which includes standalone Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps, is still in development, but what we've seen so far suggests the apps have feature parity with the iPad suite. Also like the iPad app, it will include basic editing tools for free. You can sign up for the preview today, but it may take a while before you get a turn: Microsoft says it plans to add users gradually, with an eye toward testing a wide variety of devices.

    Dana Wollman
    11.06.2014
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