The future of mobile email—how much can you accomplish in 24 seconds?

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Today Microsoft released new Outlook apps for iOS and Android, which is both the culmination of several years’ of work and the first step in a greater journey to bring a true Outlook email experience to every mobile platform. With roots back to the mid-1960s, email has been part of the fabric of the Internet since the beginning. Its foundation of open standards means that a message sent from…

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The Office you love is now on your Android tablet

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ At Microsoft, we are working hard to reimagine the Office experience for a cloud-first, mobile-first world. On January 21st we previewed versions of Office for Windows 10 fully optimized for touch and mobile devices. Today, we are proud to announce the general availability of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets. Similar to Office for Windows 10, Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets are built from the…

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OneDrive for Business comes to Mac and iOS devices

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   Today we’re excited to announce new ways that you can access and manage your OneDrive for Business files from your Mac and iOS devices. In the last few months we’ve rolled out new mobile experiences across Android and Windows Phone, which allow people to connect to both their personal and business OneDrive storage from a single app. We’re excited to announce that today we released an updated…

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It’s here! The Microsoft Ignite Session Catalog

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Hundreds of newly released sessions to spark your Ignite planning The Microsoft Ignite Session Catalog is here! Be sure to take a look at the hundreds of sessions covering cloud infrastructure and management, big data and analytics, productivity, unified communications, operating systems, and mobile devices at the biggest enterprise technology event of the year! You’ll find sessions that provide deep technical detail on specific products, as well sessions…

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Microsoft mainstreams business intelligence with new and improved Power BI Preview

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Today, anyone with a US business email account can try the preview of the new Power BI for free. We’ll expand to international users in the future. When we reach general availability we will introduce a free offer, available as Power BI. We’ll also introduce Power BI Pro, available at a low monthly price, with additional data capacity and features for the enterprise. In anticipation of this move, on February…

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Information about changes to the SharePoint Online Public Website

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Starting January 2015, Microsoft is making changes to the SharePoint Online Public Website feature. Customers who currently use this feature will continue to have access to the feature for a minimum of two years following the changeover date of March 9, 2015. New customers who subscribe to Office 365 after the changeover date won’t have access to this feature. Moving forward, Office 365 customers will have access to third-party…

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First look at the new Power BI Preview

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ This week Michael Tejedor joins Jeremy Chapman on Office Mechanics to give a first look at the updates to Power BI. The preview announced yesterday adds a number of new Power BI capabilities, including dashboards, new visualizations, support for popular software-as-a-service applications, a native iPad app and live “hybrid” connectivity to on-premises SQL Server Analysis Services tabular models. Michael demonstrates all this and more on the show and…

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Office Mix now works with the Moodle open source LMS

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Here at Microsoft, we constantly look for ways to empower teachers around the world using technology—both in the classroom and online. Recently our subsidiary, Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. (MS Open Tech) announced a partnership with Remote-Learner to integrate Office 365 and the Moodle learning management system (LMS). Moodle,  one of the most popular learning management systems is now integrated with OneNote, OneDrive for Business, the Office 365 Outlook…

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Quick updates to OneNote for iPhone

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The OneNote team is always thinking about new ways to help you capture important information quickly and make it easily available to you wherever you are. These are two essential elements that we focus on so you be more productive with OneNote. I’m excited to share that we recently published an update to OneNote for iPhone with two features we think will really help out as you strive to…

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