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Microsoft Rolls Word, Excel, and Powerpoint Into One Unified App for Android

Microsoft is finally bringing three of its obligatory products under a single, unified app for Android—meaning users who use all three apps will no longer be required to install all three individually. Back in November, the company rolled out a public preview of its all-in-one Office app for iOS and Android, though Android Police noted…

How to Start Any Office Application in Safe Mode

Word starting to wobble? Excel eating itself? PowerPoint playing up? If you’re having trouble with your Office apps, then launch them in a special stripped-down Safe Mode. Like Windows Safe Mode, it loads the software in its most basic configuration, enabling you to troubleshoot issues and hopefully identify what’s causing your problems. Here’s how it’s…

You Can Finally Put Microsoft Office for Android on Your Smartphone 

Microsoft Office for Android came out for tablets in January, but the app suite is available for Android smartphones starting today. The app is similar to Microsoft Office for iOS, and while it doesn’t have the full functionality of the Android tablet version, it’s still an upgrade for anyone who uses Office tools on Android…

Here’s a neat new Chromecast feature: Google Slides now works with Google’s little dongle, meaning you can cast presentations wirelessly from your mobile device or the desktop. Beats lugging a 30-foot HDMI cable around with you. [Google Blog]

Microsoft Office Just Got Way Better on the iPhone

Do you like using work and productivity apps on your mobile device? Yeah, me neither, but Microsoft wants to change our minds with its new—free—apps for iPhone and for Android tablets. Until now, if you wanted to use Office apps on your iPhone you were ushered into the sad existence known as “Microsoft Office Mobile,”…

Microsoft’s Sway: A Digital Assistant That Designs Presentations For You

At some point in your life, you’ve used PowerPoint. Whether for a class project or a meeting of some sort, you’ve click and dragged text boxes, dropped in photos, and awkwardly presented a slideshow. Now imagine doing that on a phone or tablet. Nightmare! Microsoft thinks its new app, Sway, can help make it less…

Microsoft Office for iPad: Full Video Walkthrough and Hands On

After Office for iOS proved itself a pretty big disappointment to anyone who was hoping to actually do things with the app, the long-anticipated Office for iPad has finally hit the App Store. It’s ok; you can let out a sigh of relief. This time, Microsoft got it right. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-office-is-finally-coming-to-the-ipad-1552777058 The Basics Whereas Office for…

Bill Gates explains how foreign aid has made the world a lot better

Watch Bill Gates giving a simple explanation on how foreign aid has made the world a much better place for everyone. And yes, apparently Bill Gates hates PowerPoint just like the rest of humanity. Here’s a more detailed look on how developing countries have changed during the past century by Hans Rosling—a great statistician who…

Microsoft’s Office Web Apps—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—are finally being blessed with real-time collaborative editing today. Took long enough.

Microsoft Office for iOS: Complete Video Walkthrough and Hands On

After countless months of “will they” or “won’t they,” Microsoft has finally conceded to give iOS users their very own version of Office in app form. Most iOS users, that is. Assuming they want it in the first place, which is no safe assumption given its many, many limitations. Getting Started The first thing to…

The Best and Worst Redesigns of PRISM’s Atrocious PowerPoint

There are plenty of reasons to be discomforted by the recent NSA PRISM scandal, chief among them the total obliteration of any remaining notion of privacy we might have had. But there’s another (less pressing, yes, but still confidence-shattering) concern that has echoed around our internet’s hallowed halls this past week: the fact that this…

Office 365 Home Premium: This Is as Good as Word Gets

You’re never going to love Office, because it’s Office—it’s the thing you use to make money and do things you actually enjoy. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be (relatively) painless, affordable, and smart. Starting today, it is. Office 365 Home Premium is a fancy word for Microsoft’s new subscription-based, cloud-hosted way of getting Word,…

The New Microsoft Office Is Here—And You Rent It

Office—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, the old frenemies—are out of beta and ready to buy. Sort of: you buy the newest version of Office like you buy Netflix or Spotify, with a subscription. And it makes a hell of a lot of sense. Microsoft Office is usually a big purchase, or no purchase at all—sometimes it comes…

Hands On The New Microsoft Office: It’s Finally Getting Better

Does anyone really want to use Microsoft Office? Of course not. It’s a work tool. It’s a utility. But does it have to be so utilitarian? So bleak? No—not anymore. The new Office is the best Office. Office 2013, unveiled today as a “Consumer Preview” for the upcoming Windows 8, is in a tough place.…

US Army Declares War on Vision, Aesthetics, and Sanity with 100 Slide Comic Sans Powerpoint

Iran-Contra. The Bay of Pigs. The Battle of Mogadishu. All of these failures and black eyes upon American military history—none of them compare to this monstrosity, this abomination. This war crime. A briefing composed entirely in Comic Sans. Nevermind that the presentation, typical government clusterfuckery Power Point eyeball eruption, is visual gibberish without Comic Sans.…

The US Army’s Plan to Stop Making PowerPoint Debacles Like This One

Officially, Dave Karle is an executive communications manager at Microsoft. Less officially, his colleagues have given him another name: the Pied Piper of PowerPoint. His audience? The U.S. Army. Except that Karle isn’t trying to get the Army to use Microsoft’s presentation software. PowerPoint is already ubiquitous within the Army – to the chagrin of…

Behold, the World’s Worst PowerPoint Slide

It often seems like every PowerPoint slide is the worst, but here lies what projector company InFocus deems history’s most heinous. I’m inclined to agree. It’s almost brilliant in its horror. Diabolical. The arrows. The colors. This is Satan’s face. Is a single part of this slide legible, or even comprehensible in some abstract sense?…

Office For Mac 2011 Now Available

From what we’ve heard Office for Mac 2011 is actually pretty good! If you want to decide for yourself, today’s your chance to pick up a copy of the software suite that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and, for the first time, Outlook. It’ll run you up to $150 for a single Home and Student license,…

Office For Mac 2011 Reviewed And It’s Actually Good

Office for Mac has long been the ugly stepsister that Redmond (and Mac users) pretended didn’t exist. Is the latest Office the same deal? No, says Macworld. They say Office for Mac 2011 is actually good. Word 2011 It’s good! It’s faster! Word 2011 for Mac brings in a fresh, re-designed UI that works as…

The U.S. Military’s War On PowerPoint Is Explained—Through PowerPoint

The Army has advanced its war on PowerPoint, Wired conveyed on the tannoy from the first of their monthly naval-gazing sessions on internal issues. Apparently one officer announced “Death by PowerPoint”…through the medium of PowerPoint. Effective like a hand-grenade! https://gizmodo.com/the-u-s-militarys-war-on-powerpoint-5525843 It’s not just PowerPoint that the Army is struggling with, according to Wired’s stories from…