The progression of technology from the historical context of business productivity office suite, to Microsoft Office then to Office 365 and beyond.

Backstage view is a new aspect of Office 2010, which pervades all the applications in the suite, but is particularly useful in Excel 2010. If you look along the Ribbon tabs at the top of the screen, you'll notice the File tab at the extreme left is...

Dr. Steve Marsh quashes the concerns many feel about migrating to the cloud

Large enterprises have the pick of the crop when it comes to office software, as despite budgets being stretched, they have a lot more capital to play with. At the other end of the scale, more vendors are trying to tie up the small business market,...

They've worked with Microsoft for 10 years and understand their systems like no other company. Dr Steve Marsh discusses Office 365...

The 'hybrid cloud' has been given many names before, but essentially it is a mixture of private and public cloud functions. Dr Steve Marsh explains what this term means to Microsoft and him.

Whatever size of business you run, there are certain staple software products that have always been present and most of them have come courtesy of Microsoft. The monthly spread sheets, the weekly reports and the daily emails all benefit from the...

If you have a certain kind of brain, you may be able to look at rows of numbers, spot trends and visualise the information they convey. For the rest of us, a little assistance is welcome. Excel 2010 includes a new facility, Sparklines, which helps...

The launch of Microsoft's Office 365 gave businesses the mixture of traditional, familiar and productive software with the benefits of the market changing technology that is cloud computing. Rather than long licenses and heavy storage needs,...

When the early rumblings of cloud computing hit the industry wires, it was all new companies we had never heard of, emerging from the deep dark depths of Silicon Valley. The Amazons and Googles of this world were toddlers compared to the...

Microsoft has taken a bold move when it comes to the pricing of its Office 365 service. The firm has elected to cut the price of "most" of the enterprise plans pertaining to its cloud office suite by up to 20 per cent. The changes are effective...

Word 2010 has added an extra category to SmartArt graphics - Picture graphics. It opens a whole new area of design, where you can incorporate photo images into many different styles of graphic. When a SmartArt Picture graphic is inserted, text and...

In this video CEO of Content and Code, Tim Wallace, and Office 365 Practice Lead, Zane Freame, talk us through Office 365 and how businesses can benefit from the adoption of cloud services.

The missing Lync? As it seeks to encourage businesses to look to Microsoft when considering cloud-based productivity solutions, it comes as no surprise that the company has integrated its communications tool, Lync, with the rest of Office 365, in...

Creating long documents in a word processor usually requires more structure than creating short ones, even for a creative text like a novel. For non-fiction works, reports and papers, this is certainly the case. Word 2010 helps you create and edit...

As part of an office suite, Word is a versatile tool, but lacks the typographical controls of a typical page layout application, like Xpress or InDesign, or even Publisher. One area which has never been given the same level of consideration in the...

Collaboration is never easy, and it only gets harder as more collaborators become involved in a given project. In 2001, Microsoft launched SharePoint, its attempt to solve the common issues businesses encounter when trying to enable large groups of...

With more companies moving to the cloud every day, Office 365 is Microsoft's play to keep their business. Considering its dominance of the desktop sector, it should come as no surprise that Microsoft is interested in gaining a strong foothold in the...

Most of us will have heard of "the cloud" and many of us will be aware that we are somehow using it in our day-to-day lives, even if that just means having the same email on our phone as our laptop. A few of us might even feel confident trying to...

Word 2010 includes a lot of features to make working with text more efficient and exact, but one particular feature is concerned primarily with its look. The new Text Effects button in the Font section of the home Tab opens up a whole new area of...

With Microsoft Office 15 software entering the Technical Preview phase, a handful of customers have already been treated to a sneak preview of it, revealed a new report. A few select customers, bound by a non disclosure agreement have been chosen to...

Research In Motion - the Canadian smartphone and tablet computer maker has finally rolled out the BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft's Office 365 suite. RIM launched the service after the 3 months long beta testing phase came to an...