Microsoft Office 365 gets simplified ribbon, new colors and icons, AI-powered Search and more

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Microsoft today announced new changes to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook and these changes are exclusive to Office.com and Office 365. The company also mentioned that over the next few months it will be deploying new designs to select customers in stages and carefully test and will move them into production only after they have made it through rigorous rounds of validation and refinement. Continue reading “Microsoft Office 365 gets simplified ribbon, new colors and icons, AI-powered Search and more”

Skype expands free group voice and video calling for Web and Outlook.com

Skype has expanded its support for free group voice and video calling to Web and Outlook.com. With the latest update, users can add upto 25  people to a voice call and up to 10 to a video call.

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Microsoft working on ‘Flow by Outlook for iPhone’ email chatting app?

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Microsoft seems to be working on a new smartphone chat app called Flow that will be a supplement to Outlook inbox app and will work as instant message chatting service for Outlook contacts or any email directly, according to an alleged leaked document by Microsoft. Continue reading “Microsoft working on ‘Flow by Outlook for iPhone’ email chatting app?”

Outlook for Android exits preview stage

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Microsoft released Outlook for iOS in January along with a preview of Outlook for Android. Today Microsoft are announcing that the application has now exited the preview stage for Android and brings a lot of improvements and features to the table.

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Microsoft to discontinue support for Google and Facebook Chat on Outlook.com

Microsoft will discontinue support for Facebook Chat and Google Chat in Outlook.com. In an email to Outlook.com customers, Microsoft said it is removing Google Talk integration “due to Google’s decision to discontinue the chat protocol used by the Google Talk platform.”.

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Outlook for iOS and Android gets PIN lock, IMAP support and more

Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android has received first update after its launch two weeks back. The latest update focuses on adding security enhancements.

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Microsoft updates Outlook.com app for Android with offline access, themes and more

Microsoft has updated Outlook.com for Android with several features. The app now syncs email history and adds the ability to access them in the cloud. The update also adds unlimited syncing of emails and these can be checked even when a user is offline.

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RBC raises Nokia’s Q3 outlook

BGR reports that RBC has raised Nokia’s Q3 outlook and said that the situation is not as dire as it appears. The analyst has set a target price of $9 and has said that the situation seems to be improving.

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Download Office Mobile 2010 for Free

If you are using a Windows Mobile phone running on WinMo 6.5 and have a version of Office Mobile installed you  can get a free upgrade to Office Mobile 2010 which is now available as a part of the Office 2010 roll-out.

You can download the new software from Windows Phone Marketplace and work with your Office documents such as Word , Excel and Powerpoint on the go. Sharepoint is supported and Outlook Email too.

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