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The last time Microsoft commented formally, they claimed 85 million active monthly Office 365 users in October 2016. On their April 27 analyst call to discuss Q3 FY17 results, CEO Satya Nadella said that the new number is “more than 100 million monthly active users.”...

A year ago, many investors had given up on Apple, whose stock price had fallen more than 30 percent from its 2015 peak. Apple’s once-unstoppable growth had come to a crashing halt: The number of iPhones sold was down 13 percent, and the company posted its first...

According to a recent Ponemon Institute study,* the average cost of a data breach has risen to $4 million, with costs incurred for litigation, brand or reputation damage, lost sales and in some cases—complete business closure. Staying ahead of threats has never been...

Microsoft has rolled out a new, free tool to help you decide if your company should make the move. The Cloud Migration Assessment service walks you through an examination of your resources and cost-benefit analysis. To get the tool you have to give Microsoft your...

The future of Microsoft Office is subscriptions. That sums up what the company confirmed recently in a blog post notifying users about its plans to wind down support for standalone versions, or what are known as perpetual licenses. That means versions such as Office...

Microsoft has launched its Azure Import/Export service allowing Azure customers to post their hard drives to the vendor and have their data moved to Microsoft's cloud. For a flat fee, £59.63, customers struggling to upload large amounts of data to Microsoft's public...

Microsoft announced some significant integrations between LinkedIn, the professional social network it bought last year for over $26 billion and Microsoft Dynamics 365, the company’s CRM and ERP suite. It was clear that when Microsoft paid that much money for...

Users of Microsoft Office are being warned of a new zero-day security flaw that has been exploited since at least January. The security flaw enables attackers to covertly install malware on PCs by exploiting flaws in Microsoft's Object, Linking and Embedding (OLE)...

Just under two-thirds of British business (62 per cent) now use public cloud to store data, according to Computer Research. Revealed at the Computing's IT Leaders' Forum, 'Data, insight, action - the new imperative', in association with IBM, the research suggests that...

If you work within the travel, retail, hospitality, restaurant, healthcare, construction or another service related business sector take a look at ‘StaffHub’. It’s a new Office 365 application designed to help employees who do not have their own office, desk or...