Microsoft today launched a broader-based public preview of Office 2016 for Windows, expanding on the March sneak peek that was available only to subscribers of select business-grade Office 365 plans. The new desktop suite includes Access, Excel, Lync, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher and Word. It can be downloaded and installed by any consumer, whether they…
Yahoo Mail’s smart ‘contact cards’ now include support for Twitter and LinkedIn information and will allow users to see a contact’s most recent tweets in addition to company, title, phone number and more, when they hover over a person’s name in a message. Yahoo Mail had first rolled out contact cards as an enhancement in…
Apple may have to wait a little longer before it can go toe-to-toe with the luxury watchmakers in their home country. The launch of Apple Watch could be delayed in Switzerland, known as the birthplace of luxury watches, due to a patent owned by watch brand Leonard, which bars the tech titan from using the…
Microsoft is looking beyond 4K with Windows 10 and bringing 8K support to the OS, years before TVs, monitors and content for that display resolution become widely available. The 8K support for Windows 10 will be for displays larger than 27 inches, according to a slide presented at Microsoft’s WinHEC trade show in Shenzhen, China, last…
If you want to run the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.2 on Windows 8.1, you need to download the new version — which is virtually indistinguishable from the old version. Microsoft on Friday released EMET 5.2, which adds a few features to the venerable but touchy system-hardening package, and hardly a minute passed before…
Hewlett-Packard is following in the footsteps of Facebook and Microsoft in embracing open hardware designs with its new low-cost Cloudline servers. Cloudline servers are no-frills cloud servers that break away from proprietary technology HP uses in its popular Proliant servers. The servers are HP’s first based on industry standard specifications defined by the Open Compute…
With chief executive Satya Nadella stressing a productivity-and-platform agenda for software company Microsoft, a segment in which the firm wants to lead is cloud computing, with offerings under Microsoft Azure. Independent analysts say though Microsoft in India is yet to catch up with Amazon Web Services, the aggression shown by the company in gaining market…
A Google researcher has disclosed an unpatched vulnerability in Windows 8.1 after Microsoft didn’t fix the problem within a 90-day window Google gave its competitor.The disclosure of the bug on Google’s security research website early this week stirred up a debate about whether outing the vulnerability was appropriate. The bug allows low-level Windows users to…
If you want to revisit your long ignored Orkut profile, now is the best time to do so. Google is going to shut down its Orkut social network on September 30, as it had announced earlier. Orkut was the search giant’s first foray into the social networking space, which failed to take off due to…
China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Apple Inc, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. Computer technology became an area of tension between China and the United States after a number of run-ins over cyber security. China is now looking…
Responsible investors and green groups have welcomed an apparent decision by Microsoft to break ties with a controversial US lobby group accused of seeking to thwart ambitious renewable energy and climate change policies. Microsoft has reportedly ended its relationship and funding arrangements with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where it previously served as a…
IBM signaled to channel partners and industry watchers that it’s still serious about its hardware business with a plan to spend $3 billion on chip R&D over the next five years. “They are saying we are going to be in it and here’s a serious coin on that,” Roger Kay, Technology Analyst and President, Endpoint…
