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...

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...

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...

Today, Microsoft announced OneNote Mobile for Android is now available in the Android Market app store. OneNote Mobile for Android allows people to easily capture and access notes and ideas on the go. With SkyDrive, notebooks are always up-to-date...

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...

Tomorrow, Chris Crane, director of product management from the Microsoft Visio team, will host a session at the Gartner BPM Summit in Baltimore. Alongside the Visio team will be customers Exxon Mobil and TECO Energy . Together, they will lead attendees...

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...

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...

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...

The SharePoint Technology Conference offers more than 90 classes and workshops for IT professionals. Jared Spataro, Director of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, will be a keynote speaker at the conference. Microsoft’s continued involvement reflects...

Today, Microsoft reached an important development milestone: the beginning of the “Office 15” Technical Preview Program. Office 15 is the codename for the next generation of the Microsoft Office cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients...

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...

Today, Microsoft welcomes Note, a large Scandinavian electronics manufacturer, to the Microsoft Office 365 family. Note adopted Google Mail in 2010, but quickly discovered Google’s collaboration features didn’t meet the company’s needs...

The Catholic International Education Office (OIEC) has entered into an education alliance with Microsoft, to provide Office 365 for its community of Catholic schools across the world. Office 365 is now also the cloud solution of choice for iLUKA, an events...

Today, Microsoft is excited to introduce Office 365 for Government to our line-up of cloud offerings. Office 365 for Government is a new multi-tenant service that stores US government data in a segregated community cloud. We’re also committed to...

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...

Today, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded Microsoft partner CSC with a contract to implement Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud-based productivity suite. The contract will provide 60,000 FAA employees...

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...

Today marks the first anniversary of Microsoft Office 365! To celebrate, Microsoft is launching Office 365 for education; welcoming new enterprise and education customers; and announcing that Office 365 has expanded into 46 new markets, doubling its footprint...

The Microsoft Office News Bites blog is retiring. If you'd like to stay up to date on the latest Microsoft announcements, head over to our new blog, Office News . You'll still be able to access previous News Bites post here, but as of today, no new posts...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...