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• Microsoft Office 2013 is here: Hands-on impressions and buying advice

  By Yardena Arar | 29 January, 2013 16:25

  The wait is over for Office 2013 and Office 365. Starting Tuesday, the latest version of Microsoft's venerable productivity suite goes on sale to consumers and academics, both on Microsoft's Office.com site and at retail outlets. You can buy the traditional stand-alone desktop software or, for the first time, consumers and students can buy Office as a subscription service that will make multiple installations cheaper.

• AT&T rolls out cloud-based Microsoft Office

  By Brandon Butler | 12 November, 2012 22:47

  Seeking to beef up its products and services for small and midsize businesses, AT&T Monday announced that it will offer Microsoft Office 365 as a cloud-based service.

• Hottest Android news and rumors for the week ending November 9

  By Jon Gold | 08 November, 2012 22:49

  It's been a busy week for Android news and gossip, with interesting information flying around about both hardware and software alike. Arguably the biggest news is the HTC Droid DNA - or possibly DLX - which is the first non-Motorola device to use the "Droid" moniker and the latest in the long-running series called "HTC is terrible at naming things."

• Yawns may greet Microsoft Office port to iOS and Android

  By John Cox | 07 November, 2012 22:43

  Microsoft's most iconic application suite -- Microsoft Office -- will be moving off the PC and the Windows OS to two mobile platforms, iOS and Android, in early 2013. But will customers in the enterprise, where Office has been a PC standard for years, really care?

• Opinion: Microsoft Is Going All-In with iOS

  By Tony Bradley | 14 December, 2011 10:00

  Microsoft appears to be fully embracing iOS with a slew of new apps including SkyDrive, Xbox Live, OneNote for iPad, and even an iOS app version of Kinectimals, the popular Xbox 360 Kinect children's' game. It's about time.

• Opinion: Why Microsoft Office on iPad would be awesome ... and not

  By Tony Bradley | 01 December, 2011 02:49

  There is a rumour swirling around that Microsoft is hard at work developing a native iOS app version of its Microsoft Office productivity tools to run on the iPad.

• What completed Skype-Microsoft deal could mean for consumers

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 15 October, 2011 07:49

  Microsoft announced today that it has mostly wrapped up its acquisition of the Internet communications company Skype. The $8.5 billion deal has received approval from the major regulators, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the European Union, although a few holdouts remain--Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Taiwan--which are expected to fall into line shortly.

• McLean appointed as Microsoft Australia director of consumer channels group

  By Hafizah Osman | 02 August, 2011 12:05

  David McLean has been appointed director of Microsoft Australia's newly created consumer channels group.

• Review: Office 365 turns up the heat

  By Doug Dineley | 27 February, 2013 11:20

  Latest blend of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync servers in the cloud combines an excellent feature set with easier setup and management

• 10 Microsoft Word 2013 headaches and how to cure them

  By Elsa Wenzel and Helen Bradley | 14 February, 2013 16:15

  Microsoft Word remains the world's beefiest and most popular word processing program. It's no easy task to simplify an application that has accumulated 30 years' worth of features, but Microsoft has improved the 2013 edition in several key ways, starting with a polished Read Mode and embedded PDF edits.

• Office 365 vs. Office 2013: Should you rent or own?

  By Ian Paul | 31 January, 2013 00:41

  For the first time Microsoft is tempting Office users to rent, not own, software that for decades they've bought as a standalone program. It's not a foreign proposition. We pay annual subscription fees for our anti-virus software. Last April, Adobe rolled out its Creative Cloud subscription package for renting Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver.

• Microsoft's 13 worst missteps of all time

  By Woody Leonhard | 14 January, 2013 11:15

  DOS 4.0, Zune, and Windows 8 are but a few of the landmarks among 25 years of failures Redmond-style

• Closer look at Microsoft 'Aurora' Small Business Server

  By Tony Bradley | 14 December, 2010 06:53

  Microsoft has been paying more attention lately to the small business audience, as well as the cloud. With the "Aurora" Small Business Server (SBS)--officially named Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Microsoft delivers a solution that brings the two together--bridging local services and the cloud, and granting small businesses affordable access to big business tools.

• The world's worst PowerPoint presentations

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 01 November, 2010 15:08

  Yes, people who think that it's okay to put 100 graphs on one slide do exist. Learn from these examples how not to make PowerPoint slides for your next big meeting.

• Microsoft, get back to work!

  By Tony Bradley | 31 July, 2010 04:13

  Steve Ballmer assured analysts and the world that Microsoft is hard at work developing a Windows 7-based tablet to compete with devices like the Apple iPad.

• Microsoft Office is just what the iPad needs

  By Tony Bradley | 11 May, 2010 04:19

  The iPad is "magic" and all that, but it is not without its flaws and weaknesses--many of which I expect Apple will address with the next incarnation of the tablet device. However, for those looking to use the current generation iPad as a mobile business tool, Microsoft may be the hero with Docs.com.