Office 2011 SP1 coming next week

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.
 

Microsoft’s Office Web Apps finally launch in Australia

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.
 

Windows Live Essentials 2011 updates Microsoft's consumer S+S offering

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

Microsoft eating its virtualisation dogfood

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.
 

Hotmail hacked?

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

Australian businesses exercise caution with social networks

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

China blocking websites on Tiananmen anniversary

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.
 

Three nations, one language - but what about their search interests?

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.
 

10 million zombies go after Google and Microsoft users brains

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...
 

Xobni outs Outlook inadequacies

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?