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Office for iPad was finally launched recently. Even though the apps are available to download free of cost, they only allow viewing of documents. To unlock editing and creation features users have to get an Office 365 subscription. Last month Microsoft announced that it will offer a cheaper subscription package called Office 365 Personal. Today the plan goes live. Its great for individual users as it also opens up all features of Office for iPad.

A conventional Office 365 subscription costs $9.99 per month or 99.99 per year. It allows access to Office on five PCs or Macs as well as five tablets. Office 365 is a cheaper option. For $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year, users can access the full power of Office on one PC or Mac as well as one tablet, which includes the iPad.

With both subscription plans customers get 20GB additional storage on top of the 7GB free online storage they already receive. Though on the Personal plan its only available for one user, whereas 20GB storage is offered for up to five users with a conventional Office 365 subscription. By offering two different plans Microsoft positions Office to deliver the most bang for the buck to a broader range of households, whether its a family of five or just one individual.

Once a subscription has been purchased, regardless of whatever plan they choose, users will also be able to edit Microsoft documents on smartphones, including iPhones and Android devices.

Office 365 Personal Makes It Cheaper To Unlock All Features On iPad , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Tablets, Microsoft, office, office 365, Office for iPad,

Microsoft’s Office Online—the free, web-based version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote—is headed for the Chrome Web Store as a series of apps.

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Microsoft’s Scroogled campaign is one of the marketing tactics that Microsoft has employed in the past to make Google look bad, and to make themselves look better by comparison. The Scroogled videos do not hold back and point out every flaw and weakness that Microsoft believes is present in Google’s products and services, like Chromebooks, Gmail, and even went as far as selling Scroogled clothing and accessories.

However could it be that Microsoft has had enough and has decided to put things to an end? We heard back in 2013 how that was a possibility and in a recent report on ZDNet, it seems like the Scroogled campaign has indeed come to a close. (more…)

Microsoft Is “Done” With The Scroogled Campaign original content from Ubergizmo.

Back in February Microsoft rebranded Office Web Apps to Office Online. Following the move, today it announced a set of new features for the web apps. This update brings features such as Tell Me, printing, commenting and more to Office Online, all of which will start rolling out to users today. Its now available in the Chrome Web Store as well. People who use the Chrome browser can add Word Online, PowerPoint Online and OneNote Online to their Chrome App launchers, thus being able to create new Office documents online with a single click. Excel Online will be coming shortly.

Word Online users get ability to edit comments as well as insert footnotes and endnotes inline. Its “smarter” now when it comes to list making. If they’re directly below an existing numbered list and start typing the next line becomes part of the list automatically, the feature is already present on the desktop Word.

Microsoft has added the ability to insert new comments as well as edit and delete existing comments to Excel Online. It also gets improved support for files containing VBA. Users can now open and edit VBA-enabled spreadsheets without removing or corrupting the VBA contained within. Tell ME, a feature that lets you tell the app what to do, also comes to Excel Online. Relevant commands are displayed in a drop-down list so users can perform actions right away.

In PowerPoint Online the text editor has been re-engineered so that when users are editing slides, the layout looks more like the final result. Performance and video playback optimizations have also been made by speeding up advancement of slides in the editor. PowerPoint online gets the ability to play embedded YouTube videos as well.

Last but not the least, OneNote Online gets multi-column section or page navigation. Users asked for the ability to print and Microsoft has listened. They can now print notes from the online app with just one click. As previously mentioned, all updates start rolling out to users today.

Microsoft Updates Office Online With Tell Me, Commenting And More , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Web, Microsoft, office,

Earlier this morning, there were rumors going around concerning the release of Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview later today, and it seems that such a rumor was spot on – as Microsoft had already made available the preview version of Windows Phone 8.1. Right now, this operating system remains in its penultimate form, and has been made available to developers so that they can test it out for bugs and other possible hiccups before it is released to the masses.

Those who happen to be members of Microsoft’s developer community can take the step to download the preview without having to fork out a single cent. Apart from that, it will also comprise of all the features which happen to make up the revised operating system, where among them include the much talked about Cortana personal assistant, a brand new Start screen, and the Action Center.

Microsoft has warned that this particular update might actually void device warranties, since carrier and manufacturer software updates are not part of the developer preview. It is widely expected for Microsoft to introduce Windows Phone 8.1 to the masses later this coming summer. Do bear in mind that a preview update will only include the Microsoft portion of the update, whereby mobile operator and OEM driver updates will be released when the official update for your smartphone is available.

Windows Phone 8.1 Preview Version Revealed , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, Microsoft, Windows Phone,