Office 365 brings a whole new dynamic to collaborating with others to complete tasks. The landscape in the professional world has changed drastically by moving so much into cloud technologies, forever changing how companies do business. Only in the last few years has there been a surge in the implementation of mobile devices for business use, and not just in the office. The ability to take your work with you and collaborate with others has changed what it means to collaborate, and Microsoft Office 365 is at the forefront of bringing businesses the tools they need to streamline processes, increase...

You may be familiar with the traditional Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), but these new additions can provide you with a much richer Office 365 experience. One of the greatest advantages of having an Office 365 account over perpetual Microsoft software released every few years is access to wonderfully useful apps as they become available. Many of these newer apps have become available in only the last few years, and more still are relatively unknown to many Office 365 users. Microsoft has created multiple hidden gems that can assist you with almost any part of your business or...

Have you had security breaches, deleted files, and suspicious actions within your network? The Office 365 audit log can help you find the source. Security and technical issues are an IT administrator’s biggest concerns, particularly when these problems keep repeating without a permanent solution. Office 365 software suites seek to address these setbacks with its Office 365 audit log feature that is able to record a wide range of activities from all employees to not only get a sense of day-to-day operations, but also find the root causes of issues such as deleted files, multiple failed login attempts, unauthorized access...

In the past quarter, Office 365 subscription sales contributed to a significant portion of Microsoft’s overall sales for Office products. Microsoft announced a significant milestone for Office 365 in that it surpassed traditional Office products in total revenue. Microsoft CFO Amy Hood reports that profits from both Office 365 and traditional Office rose 5% YoY to over $277 million, and that Office 365 sales made up the majority of the over sum. Hood and others believe this leap in sales is due to Office 365’s cloud computing capabilities that are presenting new opportunities to both customers and businesses in how...

Originally available only on smart glasses, Microsoft’s Seeing AI app is now available on iOS and actively describes what the phone camera captures in real time. In keeping with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s promise at Build 2017 to go all in on artificial intelligence and genuine efforts to create applications for all platforms, the company’s newest app Seeing AI is available on iOS devices. Seeing AI was developed to help the visually impaired recognize things without seeing them using the camera of the iPhone and iPad. When the app senses an object (person, place, or thing), an audible voice states...