Some may argue that the recent outage of the Microsoft Office 365 online service on Wednesday across major centres in the US was a major embarrassment for the software behemoth. But was it really or was it a vindication of the company's legacy in-house software model?

Microsoft has issued just four security bulletins this month, and only one is regarded as critical. A total of 22 vulnerabilities are addressed.

The first paying custoner for Microsoft's Office 365 cloud service signed up in Australia at 11.55pm last night. Microsoft launched its Office 365 cloud service here in conjunction with Telstra.

Apple’s mobile iWork office suite (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) has been available for the iPad from the start, and now it has finally come to the iPhone and iPod Touch, specially tweaked for smaller screens.

The Business Software Alliance reckons software piracy is at record levels in Australia. And we're not alone - worldwide rates are the second highest since the Alliance's Piracy Study began.

Along with a critical security update for Windows Server, Microsoft has patched the Windows version of PowerPoint to overcome an important vulnerability. But where's the update for the same issue in PowerPoint for Mac?

Apple's latest set of security updates covers a relatively short list of issues, but Mac OS X and iOS are both affected, along with Safari for Mac and Windows.

I don't know how many people will be affected by this, but I've discovered that if you've been sending plain text emails through Outlook 2011 viaAppleScript, you'll need to make a small change to your script(s) after applying Service Pack 1.

April 2011 brings Easter, Anzac Day, a royal wedding... and an unusually busy Patch Tuesday from Microsoft.

17 security bulletins have been scheduled for release by Microsoft next week. That will be one of the biggest releases ever, and while it equals the number issued in December 2010 the proportion of critical bulletins is much higher this month.