It’s a big day for Microsoft and we are excited to be part of it!
Today, we’re pleased to announce the availability of the Office Mobile apps on Windows 10—bringing us one step closer to our vision of reinventing productivity.
Customers can immediately download and install the apps from the new Windows Store in 190 countries.
Word—Word Mobile has the features you’d expect for touch-first productivity. All the core formatting commands, styles, fonts and spell check tools are there. You can insert tables, pictures, text boxes, hyperlinks, and add headers and footers—even footnotes and endnotes—all with touch. You can easily share and co-author with other editors and utilize features like track changes and comments as you collaborate. We’ve also introduced some exciting features focused on mobility scenarios. For example, the Read mode is a new way to view documents: Word beautifully reflows your document to adapt to small screens and improve readability by adjusting font sizes and allowing you to zoom on charts and tables with a quick tap. Smart Lookup, powered by Bing, brings additional online resources like images and web references directly into your document to give you deeper insights and new ideas.
Excel—All the power and precision of Excel is now made easy for mobile. Reordering columns, adding formulas, changing chart types, and filtering data are effortless and natural using Excel’s new touch-first gestures. If you prefer to use the onscreen keyboard, you’ll find the familiar controls tuned for touch, so you can even do advanced spreadsheet work comfortably on a small tablet. Excel’s new Recommended Charts feature is ideal for smaller screens and gives you the power to quickly visualize your data with just a few taps. And we’ve added modern templates tuned for mobile scenarios, so you can be up and running quickly.
PowerPoint—Customers will appreciate the richness of PowerPoint Mobile’s presentation capabilities coupled with a touch-first design. You can easily make gorgeous slides with new touch gestures for inserting and editing pictures, tables, shapes and SmartArt. All the transition and animation effects that you’re familiar with on the desktop are built right in. And when you’re ready to present, cut the cables and engage with the audience more personally by presenting wirelessly. The Presenter View gives you full control over what your audience sees on the big screen and shows you (and only you!) your speaker notes on your tablet. And new ink, laser pointer and highlighting features let you emphasize key concepts as you present.
OneNote—Never forget again with OneNote. Capture, organize and share your ideas with notebooks that you can access on any device. Type, write or draw and find your notes (even handwritten) with lightning fast search. Bring them to life with tags, tables and pictures, and share your notebooks to work with others at the same time. OneNote automatically saves your work and synchronizes changes made by everyone working in the notebook. OneNote is pre-installed on Windows 10, so simply go to the Start menu and tap the OneNote tile to get started.
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
Monday, 3 August 2015
Azure Cost Calculator / Estimator
Azure Cost Estimator
This is a tool which will monitor an on premise host and recommend what the size of Azure VM, storage and bandwidth cost would be. Very useful for getting an estimate to move a workload into Azure.
Andriod users - How to Protect yourself from Stagefright Exploit
If you have an Android device running versions Froyo 2.2 to Lollipop 5.1.1 then your device is at risk from the Stagefright exploit.
All the attacker needs is your phone number, and it works by them sending an MMS with a video payload.
Most Android messaging apps are set by default to auto-download MMS content, so unless you disable this feature in each messaging app (WhatsApp, Messenger, Google Hangouts, Messaging, etc), there is nothing that will prevent your device being infected.
Go through each app that has the potential to receive MMS Video content and disable the Auto-Download features of each.
Failing to do this will allow attackers to run remote code and ultimatley take over your phone, the data stored within and hardware features such as camear and Microphone!
If you use your mobile for work (email, etc), this could also put network account credentials at risk.
Even after disabling auto-download in these apps, you are still at risk, but you will need to tell your device to download the file, so be extra cautious at what you allow to download.
Microsoft Azure - Seeding Data
Import Seeding
Due to restrictive bandwidth available, you can seed data into Azure datacenters to initialise the services. £50 a device, which can be consumed via Azure credits via distribution.
How to: Guide
RemoteApp with Microsoft Azure - Information, Free Demo and Pricing
Rather than creating a new Azure VM, customers can now upload their own LOB applications into RemoteApp and allow users to access this directly.
The advantage of using RemoteApp is that it provides a capped price that also includes RDS CAL usage and bandwidth. It does however require a minimum of 20 users.
Initial testing looks extremely promising.
Azure RemoteApp
Free demo
Pricing
Friday, 24 July 2015
Top 10 questions about Office 2016 for Mac answered
1. Where do I get Office 2016 for Mac?
Office 2016 for Mac is currently only available for Office 365 subscription customers. It will be available via one-time purchase in late September. In the meantime, here are the instructions on how you can get Office 2016 for Mac today:
- Office 365 subscribers—On your Mac, browse to your account page (office.com/myaccount), sign in and follow the installation instructions. If you have Office 365 through your organization, go to portal.office.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx.
- Non-Office 365 subscribers—Visit office.com/mac to learn about ways to purchase an Office 365 subscription, either for you or your organization.
- Students—You may get Office 2016 for Mac for free or at a substantial discount. You can find out at office.com/student.
2. When will Office 2016 for Mac be available for people and businesses who don’t want a subscription?
For businesses, Volume Licensing customers will be able to download Office 2016 for Mac from their Volume Licensing Service Center in early August.
For consumers, Office 2016 for Mac will become available as a one-time purchase option in late September.
Additionally, MSDN subscribers will also be able to get the new Office for Mac in September.
3. When will the Office 2016 for Mac preview stop working?
We are extending the use of the Office 2016 for Mac preview until the end of October, in large part based on your feedback.
Originally, we planned to let the Office for Mac preview expire on August 9, 2015, 30 days after launch. However, several customers commented that this was before the availability of the one-time purchase version in September, leaving some preview participants without Office 2016 for weeks. As a result of this feedback, we are extending the life of the preview until the end of October. This will give preview participants about one month to move to Office 2016 as a one-time purchase, or over three months for those who want an Office 365 subscription.
4. Can I use Office 2016 for Mac and Office for Mac 2011 on the same Mac?
Yes, you can use them side-by-side on the same Mac. And by the way, here’s how you add the app icons for Office 2016 to the dock.
5. When will Skype for Business and OneDrive for Business for Mac be available?
Both will be available before the end of the year. Stay tuned to the Office Blog if you want to participate in the preview of Skype and OneDrive this fall.
6. I have a technical problem. Where do I go?
The best place to start is support.office.com/home/contact. Otherwise you can let us know if there is something you like or don’t like by clicking the “send a smile/frown” right from within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote or Outlook.
7. How can I request a new feature?
You can submit your feature request on the new suggestion box service for each application:word.uservoice.com, excel.uservoice.com, powerpoint.uservoice.com, outlook.uservoice.com andonenote.uservoice.com.
8. I’m having problems with Outlook connectivity and reliability. What’s happening?
A number of customers reported hangs or crashes in Outlook 2016 for Mac. The Outlook team is aware of these issues and has identified two specific issues along with their root cause. In one, a small subset of customers saw frequent crashes due to some optimization work that the Outlook team was performing. The other involved hangs for customers with multiple IMAP or POP accounts. Fixes for both issues will be released this week, and customers will be automatically notified by Microsoft AutoUpdate.
We’ve also heard the requests for Gmail and iCloud calendar and contacts sync. We’ll be adding these and other feature requests through monthly updates. Stay tuned to the Office Blog for further updates as we finalize our plans here.
9. What are your plans for Visual Basic support?
Existing macros continue to work in Office 2016 for Mac. When accessing local files, you may encounter permission prompts due to Mac OS X sandboxing. We’ve added methods to the object model to allow you to update macros to minimize the number of prompts.
Office 2016 for Mac provides a simplified Visual Basic Editor (VBE) for viewing/debugging existing macros. We recommend that customers develop macros or VB add-ins in Office for Windows and use Office for Mac to debug if needed. We will continue to ensure compatibility of existing macros and make improvements to the IDE. In the future, we will include the new web-based add-in model in Office for Mac products, which work across devices and platforms, giving add-in developers a modern web development experience. These new add-ins are already available in Outlook for Mac today and will come to the rest of Office for Mac over time. They are available today for Office for Windows for Word and Excel on iPad.
10. When will Office 2016 for Mac be available in Arabic, Hebrew and other right-to-left languages? What about other languages?
We’ve heard your feedback and questions about right-to-left (RTL) language support. We are committed to doing RTL languages for Office for Mac. We are currently working through timing and will communicate our plans when we have a clearer sense of the timeline.
Note, we already announced support for RTL documents in Word, Excel and PowerPoint for iPad and iPhone coming this summer, and we are on track to deliver it. And we will release additional updates for RTL languages shortly after the iOS 9 release.
More broadly, Office for Mac is currently available in the following 16 languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. And Office 2016 for Mac is available in all countries where Office 365 is available except for Turkey. Office for Mac will be available in Turkey in September when the Turkish language version is ready.
Post was written by Microsoft's Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Office 2016 for Mac video
Word for Mac—Word’s powerful writing and reviewing tools make it easy to create great-looking documents. The new Design tab lets you easily apply designer-quality layouts, colors and fonts throughout your document. You can work on the same document simultaneously with your teammates and use threaded comments to have a conversation right next to the corresponding text.
Excel for Mac—The new Excel for Mac helps you visualize your information by recommending charts best suited for your data with chart previews. Familiar keyboard shortcuts, autocomplete and an improved formula builder save you time when creating spreadsheets or entering data. For deeper analysis, new PivotTable Slicers help you filter large volumes of data and discover patterns.
PowerPoint for Mac—PowerPoint’s improved Presenter View gives you full control when you present by showing you the current slide, next slide, speaker notes and a timer on your Mac screen, while the audience only sees your presentation on the big screen. The new animation pane helps you design and fine-tune animations, and the latest set of slide transitions add polish to your presentations.
Outlook for Mac—Managing your email, calendar, contacts and tasks has never been easier. The new Outlook for Mac has push mail support so your inbox is always up-to-date. The improved conversation view automatically organizes your inbox around threaded conversations, so you won’t have to hunt for related messages. And the new message preview shows you the first sentence of an email just below the subject line so you can quickly decide if you want to read it now or come back later.
OneNote for Mac—OneNote is the newest addition to Office for Mac. You can capture your ideas in digital notebooks and access them on any device. Find things quickly with the OneNote search engine that tracks your tags, indexes your typed notes and recognizes text in images and handwritten notes. Bold, italicize, underline or highlight notes, insert files, pictures and tables and organize your notes however you want. You can also share notebooks with friends, family or colleagues so everyone can work together on travel plans, household tasks or work projects.
Here are a few different ways to get Office 2016 for Mac today:
- Already an Office 365 customer? On your Mac, just browse to your account page (office.com/myaccount), sign in and follow the installation instructions. If you have Office 365 through your organization, go to portal.office.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx.
- Are you a student? You may get Office 2016 for Mac for free or at a substantial discount. It takes only 30 seconds to find out at office.com/student.
- Otherwise, go to office.com/mac or buy an Office 365 subscription from us - get in touch!
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