Today Microsoft released information about the pricing and various versions of Office 2010 that consumers will be able to purchase later in the year. Most interesting for me is the new Office Professional Academic, that I will qualify for, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access and is cheaper than any other [...]

In this post I want to look at some of the trends we can expect to see over the next year from Microsoft and the wider tech world. 2010: The Year Of Touch We all know that Microsoft added Windows Touch to Windows 7 to bring touch computing mainstream and it will be this year [...]

With the beta release of Office 2010 last week I thought I should explore how the suite works with the cloud, obviously there is the obvious example of the Web Apps (until next year we wont really know how good the full suite is) but there are a few other things to note. Saving (uploading) [...]

With Office Web Apps being released to testers this week it got me thinking about Microsoft’s Software + Services strategy as we can now see the Office service in the cloud to accompany the software on PCs. So what other combinations are there from Microsoft that fulfil the Software + Services strategy? Current Software + [...]

Well I have finally got access to the new Office Web Apps, for some reason I wasn’t able to use them until late yesterday probably due to an expansion of the users who have access to the Technical Preview. My first impressions were mixed, glad to finally have access but disappointed that Word isn’t usable [...]

Firstly let me apologise for being quite quite this week despite updates to Windows Live as I just haven’t seen the need to write posts for such minor updates however if you have been following me on Twitter you should have heard about most things this week. And now for the main post… Tips for [...]