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Office 2013 Home and Business requires a Microsoft account to activate, a nuisance for Office 365 users

By tim, on April 5th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

A small business contacted me with a perplexing problem related to Office 2013 and Office 365. The scenario looks like this:

All their staff have Office 365 E1 accounts (for small and midsize businesses) They normally buy laptops with Microsoft Office. That would normally be the OEM version or more recently the Product Key Card

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Microsoft’s growth areas: Azure, Server with Hyper-V, Office 365, Windows Phone

By tim, on March 27th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has left slip a few figures in posts from PR VP Frank Shaw and platform evangelist Steve Guggenheimer.

Observers have tended to focus on Windows “Blue” and what is happening with Microsoft’s core client operating system, but what caught my eye was a few figures on progress in other areas.

Windows Azure compute usage

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Office 365 for developers: Getting started with Microsoft Napa

By tim, on July 24th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

One key aspect of Microsoft’s forthcoming Office 2013 is its support for a new app model. The idea is that rather than building local add-ins for desktop Office, you will build web applications that live in one of four places:

In SharePoint Within an Excel document Within a Task pane in Excel or Word Adjacent

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Microsoft opens up Office 365 and Azure single sign-on for developers

By tim, on July 13th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Remember Passport and Hailstorm? Well here it comes again, kind-of, but in corporate-friendly form. It is called Windows Azure Active Directory, and is currently in Developer Preview:

Windows Azure AD provides software developers with a user centric cloud service for storing and managing user identities, coupled with a world class, secure & standards based authorization

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Wrestling with SharePoint and Office 365: code to bulk move documents

By tim, on June 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I have mixed feelings about SharePoint, Microsoft’s flexible but infuriating collaboration platform. It makes difficult things easy and easy things difficult, or something like that. Today’s story is an example, and may also be of interest if you are wondering how to write code that manipulates documents in SharePoint as found in Office 365.

The

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One of the best features of Office 365 vs BPOS: setting passwords not to expire

By tim, on January 31st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Should passwords expire? Most of the best practice guides I have seen say that they should, but there are downsides. The more often passwords expire, the more likely users are to forget them and contact support, or write them down, which is insecure. Further, it is all friction that means users get less work done.

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ITWriting.com awards 2011: ten key happenings, from Nokia’s burning platform to HP’s nightmare year

By tim, on December 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

2011 felt like a pivotal year in technology. What was pivoting? Well, users are pivoting away from networks and PCs and towards cloud and devices. The obvious loser is Microsoft, which owns PCs and networks but is a distant follower in devices and has mixed prospects in the cloud. Winners include Apple, Google, Amazon, and

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Microsoft partners are not whooping and cheering for Office 365

By tim, on July 13th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

There is a telling moment in the day two keynote at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference. “Now we’ve added Office 365”, says Corporate VP Jon Roskill. Do you guys feel the momentum?” There is a muted cheer, not the big whoop Roskill is looking for. “Now let’s have some momentum, whoo!” he repeats. Another barely audible

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Office 365 and why it will succeed

By tim, on June 28th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Today is launch day for Microsoft’s Office 365, which offers use of Exchange, SharePoint and Lync hosted by Microsoft at commodity prices – not quite as low as $50 per user per year for Google Apps, but low enough that it is likely to be a substantial saving for most customers, versus the cost of

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Hands on with Office 365 – great service, some hassles

By tim, on April 20th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I have been trying Microsoft’s Office 365 which has recently gone into public beta, and is expected to go live later this year.

This cloud service provides Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 with Office Web Apps, and Lync Server to provide a complete collaboration service for organisations who prefer not to run these servers themselves –

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