Office Suites

Microsoft seeks to capture a generation of Office 365 users

Free subscriptions for college kids could make them customers for life

Microsoft equips Visual Studio for Office app-building

Visual Studio developers now can use templates to quickly build apps for Microsoft Office and SharePoint

Microsoft promises Surface Pro in European stores next quarter

The Surface Pro will cost around a!899 when it goes on sale in Europe next quarter, although its exact price has not yet been fixed

Unappreciated Software Installations

Google Chrome, Ask Toolbar, and other unasked guests can clog up your machine - or worse.

OneNote, Yammer, SkyDrive are growth drivers for Office, DelBene says

The Microsoft Office Division chief is also confident about the new Office subscription model

Red Cross offers Office 365 to its units worldwide to improve communications

The Microsoft cloud email and collaboration suite could be adopted by millions of the relief organization's employees and volunteers

Office 2013 sentenced to death by licensing

Microsoft's new licensing restrictions on Office 2013 - paired with its favorable treatment of Office 365 - are signs of a nasty trend in software sales.

Oxford University briefly blocks Google Docs in anti-phishing effort

Oxford overreacts to phishing, temporarily blocks Google Docs

While network professionals sympathize, decision widely criticized

Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17%

Dumps multi-license packages, all to make Office 365's subscription pricing more attractive