Microsoft is changing its Office 365 device install limit policy, offering subscribers more for the same amount of money.
The post No more Office 365 install limits starting October 2 appeared first on Pocketnow.
Microsoft 2Q18 earnings are up thanks to cloud, not Surface
Azure and Office subscriptions lead the charge. Even the Xbox One X is outperforming Surface devices. And by this point, phones are far out of the picture.
The post Microsoft 2Q18 earnings are up thanks to cloud, not Surface appeared first on Pocketnow.
Google bolstering G Suite apps with new VoIP client, authentication management
New enterprise communication and user management tools are coming from Google... and CRM could be in store as well. All to take on Microsoft.
The post Google bolstering G Suite apps with new VoIP client, authentication management appeared first on Pocketnow.
Microsoft Teams opens up Office 365 users to Slack-like chat
Teamwork is something hard to corroborate in real life. Technology provides us with plenty of liberty to telecommute and telecommunicate with our colleagues. And a lot of those offices in those companies (some 28 out of the FORTUNE 100 companies, actually) use Slack to connect through conversations about projects and places for files associated with said projects. As an independent service, it only brings in a daily active user base of 4 million users.
Microsoft is keen on pushing cloud services these days, so you probably should’ve guessed that it was going to wield a sword over Slack. That sword is called Teams.
The service is available as a preview right now to those with Office 365 commercial subscriptions for all desktop and mobile platforms (including Windows 10 Mobile, Android and iOS) Microsoft serves and is meant to “bring together chat, meeting, notes, Office, Planner, PowerBI, and a host of extensions and applications” to let work be known and shown, according to CEO Satya Nadella.
The chat stuff seems pretty standard with threaded convos, all the image, photo, GIF and emoji libraries you need to be witty, options for voice and video and sharing direct views with Microsoft Office docs. From the groups, one-on-one or limited subgroup conversations can be parsed. Tabs keep track of what documents and applications are on the docket. Some third-party apps like Zendesk and Asana can be tabbed. Notifications as served by Exchange can also be served. Microsoft’s Bot Framework is also accessible to help with users’ needs.
Ins and outs of Teams are protected by multifactor authentication and all data is encrypted passing through the system. Security measures will be compliant with standards of the EU and the US government.
Once again, the Microsoft Teams Developer Preview is available in 181 countries and 18 languages right now to the 85 million Office 365 customers right now. An official release is due next quarter.
The post Microsoft Teams opens up Office 365 users to Slack-like chat appeared first on Pocketnow.
Microsoft revenues down for quarter and year, with or without Nokia
Microsoft wraps up its 2016 fiscal year with revenue dependencies growing on services and other sources and weaning off products. The net result is still down for the quarter and down for the year as compared to 2015.Fourth quarter earnings totaled $20.6 billion or a 7 percent drop from 2015’s numbers. On ...
The post Microsoft revenues down for quarter and year, with or without Nokia appeared first on Pocketnow.
Time to say goodbye to a large chunk of your free OneDrive storage (maybe)
Microsoft pulled a very uncool stunt on both Office 365 subscribers and users of its free OneDrive file hosting tier last fall, massively reducing previous cloud storage perks across the board, but in the face of public outrage, some of the controversial policy changes were temporarily reversed in December.This January 31, your window of opportunity closed for good, and ...
The post Time to say goodbye to a large chunk of your free OneDrive storage (maybe) appeared first on Pocketnow.
Office 365 Personal subscriptions now offered to some OneDrive users nearing their free storage limit
First, Microsoft abruptly took away people’s unlimited OneDrive cloud storage due to “abuse”, and inexplicably downgraded free accounts from 15 to 5GB digital hoarding space. Then, pressed by backlash, the Redmond-based software giant reconsidered the latter move, but only tripled available storage back for folks who expressly declared their desire.Everyone else was still supposed to keep the 15 gig ceiling through the ...
The post Office 365 Personal subscriptions now offered to some OneDrive users nearing their free storage limit appeared first on Pocketnow.
Apple’s short list of official iPad Pro accessories includes Microsoft Office 365
Tech arch-rivalry might still yield drawn-out legal battles between Samsung and Apple, advertising mockery, as well as various cheap shots exchanged by Cupertino and Microsoft when it comes to iPad Pro and Windows PC productivity. But if it’s mutually lucrative, the three aforementioned giants,
The post Apple’s short list of official iPad Pro accessories includes Microsoft Office 365 appeared first on Pocketnow.
Microsoft prematurely enforces OneDrive restrictions for Office 365 users, but they will be lifted
As if all of a sudden going back on promises of unlimited cloud storage and also downgrading free OneDrive plans wasn’t enough to alienate users who can always choose Google Drive or Dropbox, Microsoft just bungled things further by inexplicably limiting people’s accounts to 1TB digital hoarding space.Don’t get us wrong, this is ...
The post Microsoft prematurely enforces OneDrive restrictions for Office 365 users, but they will be lifted appeared first on Pocketnow.
No more unlimited OneDrive storage for Office 365 subscribers, free cloud space downgraded
Microsoft’s latest OneDrive cloud storage offers always seemed too good to be true, and alas, just over a year after their introduction, they’re no longer available on the Google and Dropbox-eclipsing terms.Effective immediately, Office 365 Home, Personal, and University subscribers return to capped OneDrive plans. Apparently, Redmond didn’t appreciate that a “small number of users” backed up 75TB+ data on its servers, including non-essential stuff like “entire movie collections.”HD porn action film ...
The post No more unlimited OneDrive storage for Office 365 subscribers, free cloud space downgraded appeared first on Pocketnow.
Office editing on the iPad Pro won’t be free unlike on other iOS devices
Let’s preface this story by saying that this should not be a surprise. Mind you, the base functionality of every Microsoft Office app is available on most iOS devices for free. Advanced features do require that Office 365 subscription, but if you found yourself getting by or getting away with what you could do on Word with an iPhone, it will still be the case for you.That’s not going to be the case if you get any with the iPad Pro. You’ll need a 365 subscription to do
The post Office editing on the iPad Pro won’t be free unlike on other iOS devices appeared first on Pocketnow.