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...

Is your daughter or son taking chemistry? Do they need to add a molecular structure to their term paper? Word can help. Today, Microsoft Research released version 1.0 of Chemistry Add-in for Word . Get started by downloading the Chemistry Add-in for Word...

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...

With IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference in full swing, many Notes customers are considering the switch to Exchange and SharePoint . All but two companies in the Fortune 30 use Exchange as their primary e-mail system, and one of those companies is...

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...

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...

Each year, InfoWorld holds the 2011 Technology of the Year Awards to identify and recognize the best and most innovative IT products. This year, Microsoft was honored with four awards. SharePoint 2010 took home the award for best collaboration platform...

The education space is changing with the growing critical need for anytime anywhere access to coursework, lecture notes and classroom sites. Students are working collaboratively more than ever from home to school and everywhere in between. Just as education...

Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft introduced Excel as data processing software. Today, Excel does more than number crunching. Excel helps people do anything from knitting to designing cars—the possibilities are endless! Tell us how you have made...

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...

Today, we’re celebrating the one year anniversary of Exchange 2010 and all the benefits customers are experiencing after migrating from their previous messaging systems. BGC Partners , for example, has reported reducing recovery time by 50 percent...

Today, Microsoft Office Web Apps, on Windows SkyDrive and Hotmail, just became available in 15 additional countries. These additions bring the total number of countries to 26 – making the Web Apps available to more than 1/3 of all earthlings. 1...

It has been a busy six months since the launch of Office 2010. But right now, we’re pushing aside the chocolate cake to list the reasons why we’re celebrating the half birthday of Office 2010. First, customers are buying Office 2010 at...

Today, Microsoft officially launches Microsoft Lync , the next generation of communications! You can view a live stream of the NYC event at 8:00 a.m. PST to 9:15 a.m. PST. Lync brings instant messaging, presence, video and voice capabilities together...

Inspiration and the need to share documents can strike at any time and in any context – yes, even while looking at pictures of a friend’s new pug on Facebook. You may want to send your friend a spreadsheet containing data you pulled together...

The Cloud Computing and Sustainability: The Environmental Benefits of Moving to the Cloud study says that moving business applications to the cloud can save 30 percent or more in carbon emissions per user. The benefits are even more impressive for small...

Hot on the heels of last Week’s Professional Developer’s Conference , Microsoft continues its heavy focus on cloud computing by kicking off a new, global “Cloud Power” campaign. Based on the notion that the cloud has the power...

Today, Microsoft Lync , the next generation of unified communications, was released to manufacturing (RTM). This is the final engineering milestone before Lync is generally available worldwide on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 in New York City. Lync...

The average business user receives over 1800 emails per month, according to analyst firm Basex . Today, Basex selected Office 2010 as the recipient of a Basex Excellence Award, also known as a Basey, recognizing Office as an industry-leading product in...