Microsoft Office For The iPhone Makes It To The App Store
It’s simple enough: Microsoft Office for iPhone works with basic editing skills and allows the user to save locally or to Microsoft’s cloud servers. You can also view and edit spreadsheets, docs and Powerpoint files, or do all of that with attachments pinned to emails.
In order for it to work, you need an Office 365 subscription (of course we do, Microsoft) and an iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 6.1 (no iPad version yet) in the United States; global availability will happens sometimes later.
Via: iTunes Store
That’s how much — five hundred dollars — that will have to be ponied up for a new Xbox One, later this year, Microsoft says. Those five Benjamins get you a Kinect 2, the Xbox One itself, and a wireless controller. Both Amazon and Microsoft directly are offering pre-orders, but what really matters is a release date. GameStop is pointing towards an unconfirmed November 21st. The whole shebang sounds good, if you ask me.
The next Windows iteration is actually not a complete numerical jump, but instead is just Windows 8.1, codenamed “Blue”. During June 26th to the 28th, Microsoft developers in attendance will hear more about the next Windows iteration, and as a result, so will the public. During this whole time-frame, a public preview will be released, bringing cosmetic updates and other features, such as a new side-by-side app view and Internet Explorer 11, by the end of the year.
And here comes the new Xbox console from Redmond. The event, which will be the usual press-style event that Microsoft uses to announce new products, will be held at the Xbox campus in Washington state. Planned for May 21st, it will be streamed on Xbox Live, the web, Xbox.com, and Spike TV and will ”mark the beginning of a new generation of games, TV, and entertainment.”
The never-ending stream of Microsoft doing good business doesn’t end. Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer that produces an amazing 40 percent of the world’s consumer electronic devices (!!!) will soon be sending plentiful sums of money to Microsoft.
Some interesting news out of the Microsoft camp: Windows expert Paul Thurrott revealed recently that Microsoft is planning an Xbox event for May 21st, and this lines up with credible information to narrow down an announcement date. Afterwards, the announcement from May will turn into a full display at E3 later this year.
Back in 1981, Bill Gates and Paul Allen has licensed their new operating system to IBM, called MS-DOS, but retained full control of the software. Fast forward, and they are some f the two richest men the world has ever seen. In this photo, they recreate the shot they took in black and white in 1981. Interestingly, the new photo was shot at Seattle’s Living Computer Museum, which is founded by Allen, and features some of the same systems seen in the original.