Headquartered in Milton Keynes and catering to over 250,000 students with centres in 13 regions around the United Kingdom and in most European countries, The Open University (OU) is considered to be Europe's largest university by student...

As the on-going cloud wars between Office 365 and Google Docs continues, Microsoft recently scored another win over Google, with electronics manufacturer, Note. Based near Stockholm, Note is one of the largest contract manufacturers of electronics...

Office 365's Word Web App has two important views - Editing View (default) and Reading View. Many users of the on-premises versions of Office 2010 are used to using the keyboard to format their document, as well as the mouse. This article summarises...

Microsoft's Office 365 is now officially compliant with the US Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), an important step for the cloud productivity service should it want to bid for government tenders. A FISMA approval (or authority to...

Creating and editing large presentations in PowerPoint can be confusing, but PowerPoint 2010 has a new feature, which helps to organise your slides. Sections can now be added to a presentation in much the same way they can be in a Word document....

Information Rights Management (IRM) provides the world of Office 365 with far more control over the degree of document access and security allowed. For example, one workaround used by users to extract data from a confidential, view only document, is...

In our article on the Complex Password Conundrum, we examined the importance of complex passwords in Office 365 and why these passwords should have a minimum length of twelve characters as opposed to the default eight. Below are four tips taught by...

The Office Web Apps use the same Ribbon method introduced in Office 2007 to display their functionality. Unlike Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2010, the Web Apps have reduced functionality and are sometimes known as Office Light. In some...

It is interesting to note, that after three decades, penetration testing specialists, using social engineering techniques, still find the the easy to guess password to be the major weakness of corporate on-premise systems. Easy to guess meaning...

The Office Web Apps use the same Ribbon method introduced in Office 2007 to display their functionality. Unlike Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2010, the Web Apps have reduced functionality and are sometimes known as Office Light. In some...

Privacy and integrity of content is an essential component for storing confidential information in the Cloud.  As such, Microsoft Office 365 supports an integral array of security settings to help protect content from unauthorised access via...

The Office Web Apps use the same Ribbon method introduced in Office 2007 to display their functionality. Unlike Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2010, the Web Apps have reduced functionality and are sometimes known as Office Light. ...

Business Cloud-based solutions have become more attractive due to; onerous security and compliance regulations, faster and cheaper bandwidth costs, widespread worldwide online availability, and, of course, the maturity of the Cloud-based offerings...

Secure Bastion Limited is a security company that has migrated to Microsoft Office 365. From a cost benefit, Microsoft Office 365 was a no-brainer providing its business email, website presence, corporate data sharing, on-line communication and the...

We could spend days banging on about the benefits of Office 365 - the cost savings, the flexibility, the offloading of management resource etc. But the reality of it is, that to fully understand those benefits, you need to try it for...

The core of any spreadsheet application is the functions it supports and how well they work. In Excel 2010 a lot of work has been put in to update the function library and to tidy it up, so functions are easier to locate and use. The ability to...

Microsoft Office 365 can greatly reduce business IT costs, should a company require the complete package but what if a business only requires Microsoft Office without the Lync, Exchange or Sharepoint components, would Office 365 still be worth...

On April 23 2012, global non-profit professional association ISACA rereleased a global study of more than 1,200 IT professionals in EMEA, which revealed that more than one in five enterprises had experienced a security breach and one in ten suffered...

If users of the Microsoft Office suite haven't yet seen Windows Live SkyDrive, they really should take a look at it. Although launched in late 2007, Windows Live did not have support for the Microsoft Office Web Apps until the third quarter of...

Slicers are a new tool in Excel 2010 which make it easier to arrange data from a PivotTable, to extract meaningful relationships between data elements. PivotTables, in themselves, can filter the way information is viewed, but Slicers make this...

A couple of cloud studies have emerged recently, and both with pieces of research - one from Microsoft, the other from Azaleos - which have raised some different points, when it comes to Office 365. Microsoft's cloud research, conducted by Edge...

Cloud computing is not always embraced in the large enterprise. Businesses of these magnitudes will have their own data centres built up already, with their own policies and own choices of hardware deployed as they see fit. The problem with taking...