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...

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...

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...

This week, Gartner Inc. published the “Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service”* report, which positions Microsoft as a ‘challenger in the market.’ There are no leaders according to Gartner. Microsoft was evaluated...

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...

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...

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...

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...

On Monday, Google will host their Atmosphere conference for CIOs in an effort to encourage Google Apps adoption. This morning, Tom Rizzo, Senior Director of Microsoft Online Services answers frequently asked questions from those of you who watch the productivity...

Today, Office Division president Kurt DelBene shares his vision of Microsoft’s view of the future of productivity in a blog post and video on the Official Microsoft Blog . The video shows a future where technology extends productivity to help people...

Today Microsoft is announcing the availability of the Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007. Interested customers can get the manual download on the Microsoft Download Center . After 90 days, Office 2007 customers will receive the...

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...

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...

This month nearly eight years ago, Microsoft launched Office 2003. At that time—as noted on the Office team blog —smart phones were making headlines for their built-in cameras, we lived in a world without Facebook and Twitter had yet to make...

Today Microsoft announced plans to release Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007; it is expected to become available in Q4 2011. SP3 contains a roll-up of all 2007 cumulative and public updates since Service Pack 2 for Office client...

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...

Microsoft is delivering a handful of new features for Office Web Apps on SkyDrive today based on customer feedback. People now have the ability to print directly from the Excel Web App; display ink content in the OneNote Web App; merge and auto-fit cells...

Today, Microsoft announced the Grand Prize Winners of the Office 365 Ready for Work Contest. The contest launched several months ago on the Office 365 Facebook page and called for small businesses to submit their stories about Office 365 and its impact...

Companies of all sizes, around the world, are rapidly adopting Microsoft Office 365 to dramatically change the way they collaborate and do business. Microsoft Office 365 delivers the industry's most recognized set of productivity and collaboration tools—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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...