SkyKick publicly launched the SkyKick Application Suite today and announced that it has raised $3.7 million to migrate small and medium-sized businesses to Office 365.
While “Blue,” the code-name for the next release for Windows and several other Microsoft products, has been getting a lot of play lately, the new generation of Office has been labeled as “Gemini.”
Microsoft has launched a new campaign to hook students on Office 365 University by offering up six months of the service and an extra 20GB of SkyDrive cloud storage for free.
Microsoft has opened the doors for small and midsize businesses to subscribe to its cloud-connected version of Office.
Looks like connecting the world's top document software with the cloud is really paying off. Microsoft has announced that more than one billion Office documents are now stored in SkyDrive, following the launch of Office 365 Home Premium last week.
Microsoft's new Office 365 is cloud-integrated, saving documents up to SkyDrive right as you save them on your PC. Now, with five new Bing-powered apps, Microsoft is bringing the power of the cloud back down into your local document.
We asked the experts to predict how the new Office 365 will fare in an increasingly flooded market. Analysts agree that adoption will be slow at first, but it's a win for consumers who can access high-quality products at lower price points.
Editor's Pick Microsoft finally launched the consumer versions of Office 365 and Office 2013 this week. Is it really worth the cost? In many cases, the answer is -- surprisingly -- yes.
Editor's Pick After teasing its launch for many months, Microsoft has finally released several consumer-focused versions of Office 365 and Office 2013 to 162 markets.
Editor's Pick Cartoonist Scott Adams raises two questions: Is no-one buying Microsoft's Surface tablets? And is Microsoft on a long slide toward irrelevance?
Verizon Wireless is making a strong bid for small businesses today with the announcement that it’s offering Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud productivity suite.
Verizon made the announcement together with Microsoft at a small press gathering in New York City today. …
Not only is Microsoft serious about the cloud, but it’s also serious about keeping its customers in the government happy. acknowledges
Today the company announced a new version of its cloud-based document software suite Office 365 for Government. Essentially, government …
Vaultive, which encrypts data before its gets stored in the cloud, just announced a second round of funding for $10 million.
Many companies are still hesitant about using cloud services due to security concerns. Vaultive wants to calm those fears …
Microsoft has gone after Google before in ads attacking its search and Gmail products, but today the big M has launched a new off-kilter commercial showing off Google Apps’ biggest weaknesses.
The video, titled “Googlighting,” portrays the Google Apps productivity …
Microsoft will soon let select customers and companies try out builds of Office 15, the next generation of Office software, the company announced on its Office Exec blog today.
Microsoft’s Office suite of software is one of the most important …
University of California, Berkeley, that hotbed of civil unrest as well as academic achievement, has become the latest university to move from its old-fashioned e-mail system to the Google Apps for Education cloud.
The decision is part of the university’s …
Cloud-based software suite Microsoft Office 365 on Wednesday suffered its first major outage since its introduction in late June.
“At approximately 11:30am PDT, Microsoft became aware of a networking issue affecting customers of some Microsoft services hosted out of one …
If you’re a small business or startup, Microsoft Office 365 should be on your technology shortlist. It’s a cloud-based suite based on the world’s most popular office software that launched in late June. It will likely get small businesses and …
If you want to attract customers to a new product, sometimes you have to give out samples.
In a bigger-than-usual case, Microsoft has handed out $250,000 to the University of Nebraska to switch its e-mail, office, and calendaring programs to …
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Yes, Microsoft is a slow, lumbering giant. It has been working on cloud for years, with numerous iterations, that took so long cloud proponent Ray Ozzie got fed up and left. Microsoft had to work through cannibalizing reseller arrangements, reconciling how …
