This week at Microsoft’s “Build” conference we found out at least part of their new strategy is making their products available on every platform. Not just on Windows and Windows Phones but also Mac OS10, iOS, Google Chrome and the Chrome OS, Android as well as any web-browser. Not only will Microsoft apps be available on any…
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Windows 10 Preview
Microsoft has just released the preview of the next version of Windows. Called Windows 10 it looks like a hybrid of Windows 7 and 8 but with some major differences like: The Modern UI apps (Windows 8 style) open in their own window now and you can manipulate them to be place anywhere on the desktop…
Unlimited Cloud Storage Coming to Office 365
As reported last month you get 15 gigabytes of cloud-storage with Onedrive as well as the Office Online applications and the Outlook Online mail client absolutely free. I don’t think I mentioned, with the payed versions you get 1 terabyte of storage. Coming very soon unlimited storage. Office 365 Personal is $5.99 per month ($71.88…
Skype
Skype is a proprietary Voice over IP service and software application. First released in 2003 written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, who had also originally developed Kazaa. Since 2003 it has become a very popular application with 600 million users world wide. It 2011 it was purchase be Microsoft for $8.5 billion….
Microsoft In The Cloud
Like Google, Microsoft has made a major investment in web applications. Beyond “Outlook” its web-mail client they now have “Office” apps on the web. Office 365 is the online version of “MS Office”. 365 has all of the applications that enterprise users have grown to love including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office 365 also includes;…
Skydrive
The second storage app is SkyDrive. Microsoft’s Skydrive has been around for a few years but the user interface was not very handy for uploading large amounts of data. Now the Skydrive app sets a folder on your computer and what ever you put in it is backed up just like Dropbox. Skydrive gives you…
Windows 8
Windows 8 will be the latest Windows OS (operating system) when it is released, probably in September or October. For now we have the Consumer Preview to play with. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview seem like a release candidate to me. It is very polished, very fast and not buggy at all. Windows 8 is…
Good-N-Free Meetup 