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Microsoft takes unbundling of Office and Teams global
Commercial customers will now be able to buy Teams as a standalone product
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4192140/microsoft-takes-unbundling-office-teams-global
Post Office threatened legal action over missing Horizon data
The Post Office contemplated suing Japanese technology giant Fujitsu over missing audit data that could have been crucial in prosecuting victims of the Horizon scandal between 1999 and 2015.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4165875/post-office-threatened-legal-action-missing-horizon
Post Office inquiry told that fixing bugs was too costly and time consuming
The Post Office inquiry heard from two former Fujitsu staffers yesterday
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4165089/post-office-inquiry-told-fixing-bugs-costly-consuming
'Prison changed my perspective': From inmate to techy
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/4115743/prison-changed-perspective-inmate-techy
Microsoft's AI-powered Copilot for Office will create documents and analyse data
Microsoft is further integrating generative AI into its apps and services, this week announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Google Cloud adds AI to Gmail and Docs
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4080484/google-cloud-adds-ai-gmail-docs
Post Office discussed Horizon replacement with IBM in 2015
The Post Office attempted to replace Fujitsu's contentious Horizon retail and accounting system with a competitor product seven years ago, but abandoned the project due to worries regarding its ...
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4076857/post-office-discussed-horizon-replacement-ibm-2015
Coding for a sustainable future
Dean Clark from GFT discusses the principles and rewards of green coding.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/4066191/coding-sustainable-future
Microsoft services including Teams and Outlook down for thousands
Microsoft is looking into an outage that has prevented thousands of users worldwide from using its services, including Teams and Outlook.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4066082/teams-outlook-stop-thousands-users
NLP to increase diversity in text analysis
More and more articles, blogs and videos mention natural language processing (NLP) as a tool to get information from vast amount of text. What they rarely mention is that NLP can also be used to...
https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4060326/nlp-increase-diversity-text-analysis
Partner content: Taking AI to ROI
AI continues to garner interest across industries, demonstrating clear benefits to cost savings, decision-making speed, and customer insights. However, fully realising benefits in a measurable w...
https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4057633/intel-dcai-q3-partner-content-taking-ai-roi
Partner content: The importance of hardware for building strong AI foundations
A successful, cost-effective AI journey is built on high performance hardware. Analysing vast amounts of data quickly and accurately, a key mechanism in AI, relies on specialist technology with ...
Partner content: Real world AI success stories
The benefits of AI in enterprise environments are widely recognised. From intelligent reporting to proactive cybersecurity, and from customer insights to automating human-intensive processes, th...
Partner content: Are we making the most of AI?
Understanding the data your business your collects is crucial to its success. Acting on insights and transforming historical interactions into predictive analysis are key to successful business ...
https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4057628/intel-dcai-q3-partner-content-most-ai
Partner content: How to move beyond AI proof of concept
Across industries, organisations are looking to use AI to enhance decision-making, automate processes, and gain crucial insights. However, adoption still has a long way to go, with many only jus...
https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4057631/intel-dcai-q3partner-content-ai-proof-concept
Partner content: Upskilling for AI success
AI advancements transform organisations across every industry to make more intelligent business decisions, faster and with greater confidence. However, even intelligent solutions will not succee...
https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4057635/intel-dcai-q3-partner-content-upskilling-ai-success
Ordnance Survey research reveals sustainable opportunities for developers
Sustainability projects offer higher remuneration and job satisfaction, study finds
Microsoft U-turns on decision to block Office macros by default
The company said earlier that it would block VBA macros by default in a variety of Office apps, it has now mysteriously reversed this decision
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4052718/microsoft-decision-block-office-macros-default
Interview: Sunlight, AI & Machine Learning Awards finalist
"Sunlight was born out of a collaboration with ARM in 2013 and that was to build a lightweight hypervisor that could really efficiently virtualise low power and embedded processor platforms"
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/4049680/interview-sunlight-ai-machine-learning-awards-finalist
Microsoft Autopatch feature to make Patch Tuesday 'just another Tuesday' for enterprises
The upcoming feature will apply patches automatically
Microsoft bumps up 365 prices for non-profits
Microsoft will raise the prices of five Microsoft 365 SKUs for new and existing non-profit customers from 1st September.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4048043/microsoft-bumps-365-prices-profits
Partner Insight: Why grabbing the opportunity of IAM is about more than just identity
https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/4042762/partner-insight-grabbing-opportunity-iam-about-identity
Making your mark: how to reinvent a brand in tech
When I joined visual storytelling technology company, disguise, I wanted to "make my mark" by helping disguise redefine its brand and marketing approach.
https://www.computing.co.uk/event/4040596/mark-reinvent-brand-tech
Microsoft to end OneDrive desktop support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 from January
OneDrive desktop app running on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 will also stop syncing files to the cloud from March 2022
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4039891/microsoft-end-onedrive-desktop-support-windows-january
Facebook's next-gen AI will take a human view of the world - by thinking of itself
AI today is very bad at understanding a first-person point of view. Facebook wants to change that, and hang the privacy concerns
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4038708/facebook-gen-ai-human-view-world-thinking
Microsoft announces general availability of Office 2021
Pay once, own forever
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4037253/microsoft-announces-availability-office-2021
Microsoft Office gets 'visual refresh' and a native 64-bit ARM version for Windows 11
The 64-bit Office on ARM is currently in beta and available to Office Insiders for testing
Microsoft Word to get AI-powered text prediction feature next month
It will help users to write more efficiently by predicting text quickly and accurately, the company claims
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4027534/microsoft-word-ai-powered-text-prediction-feature
Microsoft rolls out new features for Teams
Improvements include faster launches, lower power consumption and a 7x7 grid view of call participants
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4021011/microsoft-rolls-features-teams
Pay-once-use-forever is not dead yet says Microsoft, announcing new perpetual licence for Office
But the next versions of SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, Project Server and Skype for Business Server are subscription-only
Microsoft to migrate Office 365 Personal and Home users to Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 will add new cloud-based features to Office 365 Personal and Home subscribers
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4013345/microsoft-office-365-migration
Google beta-testing offline storage for 'non-Google' file formats
Testing restricted to those with G Suite organisation accounts
Microsoft facing GDPR fine over Office 365 telemetry
25,000 'events' Office 365 recorded and shared among 30 engineering teams at Microsoft
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/3066451/microsoft-facing-gdpr-fine-over-office-365-telemetry
Is email - and Microsoft Outlook in particular - broken beyond repair?
The tools for handling the mountain of email we receive every day simply aren't good enough
Nineteen critical bug fixes in Microsoft Patch Tuesday - including a remote code execution flaw affecting HoloLens
Patch Tuesday isn't going away just yet, although Adobe may be kicking its patch habit
OpenOffice considers closure after project is eclipsed by Libre Office
Too few volunteers even to patch major security flaws following LibreOffice "fork"
Microsoft warning over malware that exploits security holes in Word
Remember Word macro viruses? This is even worse