Microsoft Office 15 has reached the technical preview stage and is now available to a select group of testers, according to the company.
Gartner analysts outlined the evolving competition among Apple, Google and Microsoft on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed major updates to two of its cloud-based services, Office 365 and SkyDrive.
Research In Motion is launching a public beta trial this week of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services that work with Microsoft Office 365.
Microsoft issued an update on Friday that enables Macintosh users to connect to the company's Office 365 service.
Microsoft met analysts' expectations in its fiscal first-quarter, delivering $0.68 per share, despite flat PC sales, according to financial results reported by the company on Thursday.
Microsoft reported its FY11 Q4 results on Thursday, beating analysts' expectations, despite a dip in Windows revenue for the second consecutive quarter. Total revenue for the quarter was buoyed by Office 2010 sales and continued strength in the Entertainment and Devices division, lead by the Xbox 360 gaming console.
Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Tuesday. Service Pack 1 (SP1) rolls up the fixes and updates since the Office suite and SharePoint were released in June 2010.
The cloud-based counterpart to the Microsoft Office desktop suite is officially launched today in 40 markets worldwide.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/28/2011
According to a recent study, only 10 percent of enterprise respondents planned to deploy public cloud-based Unified Communications services within the next year.
As Office 2010 marks its one-year anniversary, Microsoft reported that businesses are deploying Office 2010 at rates five times faster than Office 2007. A Q1 survey by Forrester Research showed that the use of Office 2003 and Office 2007 still predominates in businesses, however.
On Monday Microsoft announced it had acquired Prodiance Corp., a Microsoft Certified Partner that specializes in enterprise risk management software, which integrates with Office and SharePoint.
Office 2010 Service Pack 1 is the first major update to Office clients and SharePoint Server since both products were released in April 2010.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/17/2011
The May Security Bulletins address remote code execution vulnerabilities in Windows Server and Microsoft Office.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/09/2011
In addition to WordPerfect and Quattro Pro, Novell's dispute centers on the DR-DOS operating system, which the company sold to Caldera Inc. as part of a strategy to avoid legal retaliation from Microsoft.