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Last week, we welcomed a handful of customers across professional services, air travel and healthcare industries to Office 365. ALECITA, Eurowings, Multidata-Bluegarden, Sygnity and WellPoint are saving time and money while increasing productivity with Office 365. To learn more visit the Official Office...

Fashion retailer Otto Japan Inc. recently upgraded its email platform from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Online as part of Microsoft Office 365. The company wanted a comprehensive email solution that allowed for large-capacity mailboxes, ease of use, and optimization of IT costs. Last year’s...

Spring is here, but snow and extreme weather can still make a surprise appearance. Be prepared to stay productive with Microsoft Office 2010, whether you’re traveling, at the office, or stuck at home. Check out www.office.com/snoworshine for videos about how TV personality Al Roker stays productive...

Microsoft welcomes JetBlue, Patagonia, and the American Heart Association to the Office 365 Family! These companies are joined by other recent customers new to Office 365 - Campbell Soup Company, Marie Claire, Hersing Corp, UL (formerly Underwriters Labs), and Wunderman. With this recent momentum, Office...

Microsoft has partnered with Guy Kawasaki, author and venture capitalist, on a series providing guidance and sample Office documents for making business dreams a reality. In the four-post series on Guy’s blog he reveals exclusive tips for aspiring entrepreneurs on everything from pitching business...

In a continuing trend to put the latest technology in the palm of small businesses, Microsoft with the help of MasterCard is working to bring additional incentives for small businesses upgrading to Office 365 . Today, we announce that MasterCard will provide a 10 percent savings to eligible small business...

Like you, we love creating delicious dishes and culinary masterpieces and sharing them with our friends and family. That’s why this year, Office designed three ­free Office 2010 holiday-related templates to help you relax and focus on your loved ones. What’s more, we’re filling...

Today, Microsoft announced improvements to its support for security and privacy in Office 365, making it the first and only major cloud based productivity suite to offer leading EU and US Standards for Data Protection and Security. As part of its contractual commitment to customers, Microsoft will now...

Today, Microsoft announced the release of an update to OneNote Mobile for iPhone (to version 1.3) and a version of this app tailored for iPad. The Lync 2010 for Windows Phone app is also available today and Lync 2010 clients for iPhone, iPad, Android and Nokia Symbian have been submitted to their respective...

Yesterday Kurt DelBene , president of the Microsoft Office Division, and Satya Nadella , president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, dined with journalists in San Francisco to discuss cloud computing. Kurt and Satya weighed in on the biggest myths, trends and the future in cloud computing...

Today, Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 is ready to download . As announced last May, SP2 incorporates customer feedback to bring users new features, as well as requested fixes and rollups released prior to SP2. Just like SP1, there is no separate download for client and server languages. Users will...

Today, Microsoft Lync celebrates its first birthday! In the last year, about 3 million enterprise users have relied on Lync 2010 for their telephony needs instead of a traditional PBX. As we look back on Lync’s key milestones, we note how Lync’s presence is making a difference in the enterprise...

Today Microsoft announced new enterprise customers for Office 365 , strong small business adoption of the service, along with the first major service update and the trial availability of the service in new global markets. Big brands such as Groupe Marie-Claire and Campbell Soup Company are all betting...

It’s been almost a year since Lync 2010 launched, bringing the world’s first truly unified communications solution to the market. Partners and customers are building rich, real-time communications with Lync into business applications and workflow. They are also using SharePoint, Exchange...

Automobile manufacturer Volkswagen Group of America is rolling out Microsoft Lync to 1500 of its employees in Northern Virginia and Detroit, in a move that will help the company reduce costs while improving team collaboration, communication and training. Volkswagen previously used a complex telephony...

Today kicks off the first day of Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 (SPC) ! The sold out conference is taking place in Anaheim, California for the next four days. With more than 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies relying on SharePoint, it’s no surprise attendance is so high! Read more about...

Lync for Mac 2011 has been released to manufacturing, and will soon be available through the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Volume Licensing SKU. Starting in October, Mac customers can experience the same integrated communications that Lync PC users enjoy – including the ability to set up Lync conferences;...

“Today, Microsoft is taking the next step in its alliance with Nokia to bring Microsoft productivity apps to Nokia Symbian phones. OneNote, Lync 2010, Microsoft Document Connection (which provides SharePoint access) and PowerPoint Broadcast for Nokia Symbian phones will be available by the end...

An updated version of Microsoft OneNote Mobile for iPhone was released today, helping people take their notes, ideas and research wherever they go. OneNote Mobile for iPhone 1.2 is available in the U.S. and for the first time in additional English-speaking regions including Australia , Canada , Ireland...

Gartner Inc. just published its MarketScope for Enterprise IM and Presence (Gartner Research, David Mario Smith, July 5, 2011,) report, where Microsoft received a ‘Strong Positive’ rating. Microsoft Lync brings people a new connected experience that transforms every communication into...

Last week, Microsoft’s student technology competition Imagine Cup took place in New York City. Over the past year, teams of two to four students from 183 countries competed in online or regional events to “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems,” with 21...

The results of Microsoft Project Portfolio Management Partner of the Year are in! PTC came out on top by offering solutions such as Windchill PPMLink , which integrates with Microsoft Project Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. SharkPro Software Corporation and The Project Group were among...

Lync is changing the way businesses communicate. With all of the opportunities Lync provides Microsoft partner community, it is on the minds of many at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) . Lync offers substantial revenue opportunity for partners, whether they are offering...

SharePoint 2010 customers can now build larger SharePoint farms with today’s announcement of increased storage limits from 200GB to 4TB when certain requirements are followed. In addition, SharePoint 2010 now supports an unlimited content database size for document archive scenarios when best practices...

Today, Microsoft announced another new Office Web Apps on SkyDrive feature based on customer feedback — the ability to co-author in the Word Web App! Building on the collaboration features already available in Word 2010 and Word for Mac 2011, co-authoring improves collaboration with others on Word...