Microsoft releases several new features and improvements for its Microsoft 365 apps over the last several months. The biggest change is the improved Office app for iPad, but there are improvements across a range of apps.
Several Microsoft services went down last week, including Xbox Live, Teams, Office 365, OneDrive, and Bing. Microsoft released a report explaining why the outage occurred.
Microsoft 365 subscribers can now easily convert Word documents into PowerPoint presentations. The feature is in preview but is a promising start to streamline the process of making presentations.
Microsoft is rolling out an option to use shortened links for Microsoft Forms. The option makes it a bit easier to share forms without having to share a large block of text.
Microsoft's PowerPoint Presenter Coach is now available on all major platforms, including Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and the web. Microsoft also expanded the areas that it can help you in when using the tool on the web.
Microsoft announced at Ignite 2021 that the desktop experience for Viva Connections will arrive this month. Viva Connections provides personalized content for people within a company, such as news, conversations, and employee resources.
Office 365 appears to be experiencing an outage this afternoon. So far, issue reports are spiking in major US cities, including Chicago, New York, Houston, and Los Angeles.
Microsoft announced that it will roll out an increased file size limit for Microsoft 365. The increased limit allows you to upload and store files on SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams that are up to 250GB.
Microsoft is testing a clean new interface for Editor on Windows. The layout and feature set is already on the web version of Microsoft Editor.
Need to be a Costco member. Normally a 12-month subscription is $100. Includes access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Works with Windows, Mac, iOS and Android devices. Has 1TB OneDrive cloud storage. Works for up to 6 people.
Microsoft 365 now includes universal app support for Macs with M1. The company announced other Mac-specific goodies as well.
You can grab a year's worth of Microsoft 365 Family right now and get a $50 gift card to Amazon. The plan gets you access to Microsoft Office and several other premium apps and services for up to six people.
This purchase is for a subscription that will auto-renew at the end of the year. Up to 6 people can use the Family plan, and it comes with 6TB of cloud storage plus advanced security for all devices. Includes all of Microsoft's premium Office apps.
OneDrive is making it much easier for you to share files and folders with groups. Now you can use one-click group sharing, instead of typing in the recipient addresses one-by-one.
If you've hit a snag signing into Microsoft 365 services today, you're not alone. Though the Microsoft 365 outage appears to be on the mend, Outlook.com is still down according to Microsoft's Office service status.
Microsoft has today announced a new roadmap for Cortana features across Microsoft’s three big productivity platforms; Windows 10, Microsoft Teams, and Outlook. Cortana is Microsoft’s “productivity assistant” inside of Microsoft 365, after it pivoted Cortana away from being a traditional virtual assistant like Siri and Google Assistant.
Quest Software has acquired Binary Tree, bringing together two industry leaders in Microsoft environment management. The companies have decades of combined experience managing, migrating, and securing Microsoft environments.
With Microsoft Edge dominating Microsoft's browser focus, Internet Explorer is feeling very long in the tooth. That goes double late next year, when Microsoft 365 web apps will stop being supported on Internet Explorer 11.
Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra phones today, and the event featured an appearance by Microsoft. The companies announced that Samsung's Notes and Reminders will soon sync with Microsoft To Do and OneNote.
Microsoft has focused heavily on the transformation in design for its Microsoft 365 services and apps over the last several years, and now it's offering a peek at the future. In a new blog post, Microsoft laid out broad strokes of where it sees Microsoft 365's design going in the coming years, from Fluent Design to proactive AI.