Microsoft has revealed that Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1 will be released next week, and will include much-awaited calendar syncing. But there is a snag.

Presenting as cut down, online versions of the Office 2010 apps Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote, Australian Hotmail users finally get full access to Microsoft’s web apps, intensifying competition between online office suites and hopefully hastening the time until Google launches its own updated Google Docs response.

Microsoft has released the 2011 version of Windows Live Essentials, the consumer embodiment of its 'software plus services' strategy.

Microsoft is using Hyper-V on its production systems to reduce the amount of hardware required and to respond more quickly to changing user needs.

Microsoft has confirmed that thousands of users of the world's most popular email service need to change their passwords. Urgently.

Social Networking seems to be anathema to many organisations, but should it be?

On the 20th anniversary of the brutal end of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, the Chinese government has blocked content-sharing websites and cordoned off the square itself.

Everyone knows that people use search engines to hunt down porn ahead of everything else, right? Wrong, according to Google Insights. But there are some interesting similarities and differences among the search interests of American, Australian and British Googlers.

No longer the stuff of low-budget movies, zombies are invading the Internet: around 10 million of them in the last three months alone. The horror is revealed in a new report which shows that Google Adwords and Microsoft users brains are amongst the most sought after zombie food...

I still begrudgingly use Vista, even after making the mistake of retrograding my system to the monumental stuff-up called SP1. I still use Word and Excel 2007, although there are free alternatives that tempt me. However, I dropped Outlook months ago because it's an unacceptable resources drain. Can a new plug-in called Xobni change my mind?