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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...

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;...

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...

This week we’d like to give a shout out to small businesses finding success with Office 2010 . Here are two small businesses that use Office 2010 to stay productive and competitive: aNb Media, a company of 10 employees, publishes online and print trade journals, including reviews of the latest...

At TechEd this morning, the Microsoft Office team announced that Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is expected to be available at the end of June. At first, SP1 will be offered as a manual download from Microsoft Update but, after 90 days, it will be available via Automatic Update...

Implementing new software in the workplace can be an easier transition when employees are already familiar with the software. MAPFRE , Spain’s largest insurance company with 16,838 employees, experienced great results after extending Microsoft Office 2010 to employees for home use. MAPFRE deployed...

Since we announced the public beta launch of Office 365 last week, reviews for Office 365 began to stream in fast. Many reviewers have weighed in with a comparison between Office 365 and Google Apps. Here’s what they’ve said: • Edward Moltzen from CRN said in his review , “Office...

Microsoft first released the OneNote Mobile iPhone app in January and has been listening to customers’ reactions ever since. Today, there’s an update available with feature and functionality improvements, including an easier sign-in experience and the ability to email or delete notes right...

Learning Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 should be fun, which is why Microsoft released Ribbon Hero last year. Today, Ribbon Hero 2 is available for download. In Ribbon Hero 2, players follow Clippy as he explores different time periods in history and tries to find his way back home. Each time period...

When i3solutions, a business consulting company with more than 65 employees, improves an IT system, it usually isn’t its own. The company serves commercial and government customers, but recently decided to focus on the best technology solutions for its internal business. i3solutions wanted to...

Today, Microsoft Office 365 makes its public beta debut in 17 countries and 38 geographies worldwide. Office 365 brings together industry leading productivity tools including Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync for an always-up-to-date cloud service. With more than 100,000 organizations already...

The office team will be sharing ideas and conversations with bloggers attending this week’s Mom 2.0 Summit . If you are going to be onsite, we would love to see you and show you some new Office tricks. Swing by the Microsoft Lounge (Acadia Suite) at the Ritz-Carlton for Office demos, or stop by...

Customers count on Microsoft Office to meet their productivity needs, including people with hearing or print disabilities. Today we are announcing the public betas of two Office add-ins that increase the accessibility of Office documents. The Subtitling Add-In for Microsoft PowerPoint (STAMP) will...

Office Web Apps are live in 18 additional countries within Central and South America—making Web Apps available in more than 190 countries just nine months after its launch! Web Apps offers the ability to view, edit and share Office documents anywhere with a browser and an Internet connection. For...

Office 2010 is the fastest-selling consumer version of Office in history, with approximately one copy sold worldwide every second. Starting today, Microsoft offers consumers another way to purchase Office - via download on Amazon.com through Electronic Software Distribution. Customers receive a unique...

Today, the Microsoft Office 2010 Interactive Developer Map is available for download. The Silverlight application can be used to help developers visualize applications, platforms, tools and servers. The maps works as a living document to describe how to use Office 2010 and associated technologies to...

The needs of students and staff in the education space are radically changing. We are excited to share the story of IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems in Austria and how the university’s use of Microsoft tools is changing the lives of students and educators. The university saved about...

The ability to read or use technology is often taken for granted by those who speak more mainstream languages such as English, Chinese or Spanish. With 6,000 languages across the world, many people don’t have access to technology products that use their native language. Microsoft helps more people...

No one likes to be broken up with, especially on Valentine’s Day. But, sometimes a break-up is the best solution. We hear lots of stories about heartbreak when using Google Apps and we asked two of our most recent customers to share the reasons they broke up with Google: • Challenges with...

If you followed Microsoft’s recent earnings , you saw that Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 have experienced double-digit growth since the May 2010 launch . Office 2010 is now the fastest-selling customer version of Office in history, with license sales over 50% ahead of Office 2007 in the same...

Today, people in more than 150 additional countries can use the Office Web Apps to view, edit, and share Office documents from anywhere with a browser and an internet connection. The new locations include India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa,...

Duet Enterprise and the SAP-MICROSOFT Unite Partner Connection program are now available. Duet Enterprise allows IT and business users to use SAP data in SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010. To learn more, read the full press release and early analyst buzz from Rob Koplowitz at Forrester...

A free full-version, 30-day trial of Office for Mac 2011 is now available at officeformac.com/trial . The download includes great Office suite tools, such as Outlook for Mac, Sparklines in Excel, Dynamic Reorder in Word and PowerPoint, and more! The trial is live on North America sites this afternoon...

You never know when a brilliant idea will strike — it might be while waiting in line for a latté at Starbucks, sitting courtside at a basketball game, or while getting ready to board a plane! Similar to OneNote on Windows Phone 7, OneNote Mobile for iPhone gives people the tools to quickly...

Did you know that about every second, a copy of Office 2010 is sold worldwide? The year 2010 marked an important year in Office history. For the eighth year in a row, Microsoft Office was the number one selling software product in U.S. retail. Find out more about Office 2010’s 2010 successes on...