With cloud computing being a mainstay productivity solution for many of us these days, Microsoft has every intention to attract more students to jump over to their subscription-based Office 365 software, and what better way to do so than to put up a brand new promotion which will offer them up to half a year’s worth of free access? Yes sir, for $79.99, Office 365 University will come with a four-year, cloud-based subscription to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access, in addition to 20GB of online storage over SkyDrive, not to mention 60 minutes of Skype calls each month.
Those who are in possession of a .edu email address are able to gain from three months of free access to Office 365 University, but for folks who decide to spread the word by sharing the offer on Facebook after entering an email address on www.officeforstudents.com, they will benefit from an additional three months of free access, now how about that? If you are a student, do these sweeteners help you make the jump if you were in two minds about it before?
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Microsoft has a necessity to be a company that is always on the cutting edge of innovation, and they have certainly showed it at the TechFest 2013 event that happened last week. Bing Now, an app that was specially written for Windows Phone devices is currently being hammered out at Microsoft Research. Just what does Bing Now bring to the table? Well, this particular app intends to solve an issue concerning online reviews for locations. It seems that there are moments when the reviews do not come furnished with the latest information, while text reviews are not exactly the most ideal method to offer users a true idea of what the atmosphere of a place would be.
When it comes to search, most folks would think of Google first, as that is considered to be the premium “brand”, but this does not mean that Microsoft has thrown in the towel where search is concerned. No sir, they do push their Bing service pretty hard, and last year, the world saw Bing Desktop, an engine that merges Bing’s daily homepage images alongside a quick and convenient method to perform search from your desktop. After taking in user feedback for the past months, Microsoft has done what they think would be able to make your Bing Desktop experience a whole lot better.
