Tag: Microsoft
Microsoft now letting users download a trial of Office for Mac 2011
I’ve spent some time over the last week troubleshooting some Office for Mac problems. Most of the time, the users are running older versions. When...
Microsoft’s testing the iOS waters with OneNote
Some serious crow must have been eaten at the last Microsoft executive meeting: Microsoft has released an iOS app based on an Office application. It’s...
Microsoft objects to App Store trademark request
Sometimes product names are too generic to be trademarked and other times the competition just whines about trademarks because they intend on using the popular...
Microsoft, Apple, EMC, and Oracle team up to buy Novell patents
According to FOSS Patents’s Florian Mueller, Microsoft, Apple, EMC, and Oracle have teamed up as CPTN Holdings LLC in order to purchase 882 Novell patents...
Powerpoint for Mac 2011: Play audio across slides
I was asked a question via email by a Macgasm reader on how to play an audio clip across a set of slides within PowerPoint...
Windows Phone 7 has rough start; loads of promise
It took Apple two years to sell 1 million iPods. In 74 days, Apple sold 1 million original iPhones, back in 2007. It took the company just 28...
Microsoft’s Kinect hacked to run on OS X
The Xbox Kinect, Microsoft’s answer to the Wii, has been hacked, and it’s now working within OS X. Sure, Apple could have gotten their hands...
Overheard: Microsoft rumored to have iPad group
Oh, the things we can think. While sitting in a Starbucks in Seattle, iPhoneDevCamp founder Raven Zachary found himself beside two Microsoft employees discussing “things...
Microsoft shifting from Silverlight to HTML5
Microsoft server president Bob Muglia has shown Microsoft’s hand a little more than most would have expected. According to Muglia, Microsoft has begun a transition...
Office for Mac 2011 available via Technet and MSDN
Many Mac users may have never even heard of Technet or MSDN and in most cases it is useless to them. Technet, for those who...
Microsoft releases Office:Mac 2011
The first thing people switching to Macs look for these days is Office for the Mac. While Apple has an excellent office suite of their...
Will FaceTime be coming to iLife ’11?
When FaceTime was announced for the iPhone 4, many people were hoping that it would replace iChat on the Mac. Unfortunately, it did not. We...
Microsoft bringing Zune and Windows Phone 7 support to OS X
Microsoft may have finally wrapped their head around the fact that a logo on a device doesn’t ensure exclusivity. While some people might prefer Windows,...
Rumour: Apple keeping Spotify out of the US
Music is the order of the day. Apple’s working on updating iTunes to possibly include a cloud based option (based on the Lala acquisition), so...
iPads selling faster than DVD players in their first year
A lot of people didn’t get the iPad on release, and a whole bunch more didn’t even think the device would be all that successful....
Microsoft holds a funeral for the iPhone
So Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, thought it’d be appropriate to hold a funeral for the iPhone. It’s a great way to rally the troops,...
iPhone claims another victim: Nokia CEO to step down
Keeping up with the Jones’ over in Cupertino is almost a full time job these days. After pumping out innovation after innovation in the mobile...
Hotmail gets exchange support and push email
So, outside of the obvious jokes about people who still use hotmail as their primary email address, we’ve got very little good to say about...