We shared yesterday's announcement of the Office 2013 preview and today we're following up with some resources to make your testing experience more rewarding by sharing some resources that should come in handy as you take the new Office 365 for a spin and check out some of the new features. Everything from how to install to known issues seems to already be in place if you know … [Read more...]
Steve Ballmer shows Microsoft Office 2013 suite, Preview available today
In what seems like a rather quickly thrown together announcement (similar to the Microsoft Surface announcement), Steve Ballmer announced the Office 2013 preview availability. Much of the introduction tied recent Microsoft changes into one direction for the company. Office 2013 is designed for the latest and greatest, meaning Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Microsoft Surface. … [Read more...]
Jumpshot project on Kickstarter seeks to cure Persistent Tech Support Disease
A new project on Kickstarter should sound very intriguing to those of us who get frequent tech support calls from our friends, relatives, and acquaintances. It seeks to make managing, fixing, and optimizing Windows computers easier. You simply plug in a bootable USB stick and run Jumpshot. It will temporarily change the Windows bootloader to boot from the USB stick instead of … [Read more...]
Collide, a collaborative IDE Google was developing, goes open-source
The Google offices in Atlanta are closing and much of what they were working on is also being put out to pasture. As told from one Googler, Scott Blum, whose last day with Google is today, one nifty project is being gifted to the open-source community. It is a collaborative IDE called Collide. Think of it like Google's other sunset project, Wave, but used by developers to code … [Read more...]
Mozilla gathers allies for a Firefox mobile OS
"You have my bow. You have my axe. And you have my giant eagles that we can just flight straight to Mordor and be back this afternoon." Gathering allies and sharing some details, the Mozilla blog discussed the plan that will introduce a Firefox Mobile OS. Dropping the "Boot-to-Gecko" name, Mozilla will use the popular Firefox brand to push the mobile platform. It will be based … [Read more...]