Microsoft’s Mobile Apps Win Big on Phone and Tablet, But Fall Short on the Desktop

Microsoft's Mobile Apps Win Big on Phone and Tablet, But Fall Short on the Desktop

For over two weeks now, I’ve secretly made a major change to my daily workflow and have been using as many Microsoft mobile apps on PC, tablet, and smartphone as possible. And my relative levels of success speak volumes, I think, to the state of Microsoft’s mobile efforts here in mid-2016.

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July Updates for Office 365 Include Word Researcher and Focused Inbox for Outlook Desktop

This week, Microsoft announced an extensive list of updates coming to Office 365 customers. Key among them are new Researcher and Editor features for Word and the addition of Focused Inbox to Outlook on Windows (desktop), Mac, and web.
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Microsoft Launches Outlook Watch Face for Android Wear

When Microsoft first delivered Outlook for Android Wear last August, it provided basic email, calendar and notification support. But thanks to a major new update, you can now use Outlook as your watch face and stay on top of your day at a glance.
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Recycled email addresses and Outlook nicknames

The revelations (last October) that Microsoft is quietly recycling email addresses from its Hotmail, Live, and Outlook.com domains might have come as a surprise to some. According to an email statement from Microsoft to PCWorld.com cited in the article, when an account becomes inactive, “the email account is automatically queued for deletion from our servers.

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