Office Apps preview available for Android tablets
Previously available through a preview program the Office Apps for Android are now available to everyone in the Google Play store. You can find them here: Word, Excel & PowerPoint
Skype support coming to browsers
Microsoft Skype is coming to the Web with in-browser support for instant messaging, voice, and video chat.
At first you will need a plugin to enable the voice and video. Initially support Internet Explorer 10 or newer, as well as the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome.
Source: Skype Blog
Office without subscription on iOS and Android
Microsoft’s Office suite for iPad, iPhone, and Android is now available without an Office365 subscription. In a surprise move, Microsoft untethered Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for mobile from requiring an active Office365 subscription allowing any iOS or Android user to download and use the applications with personal OneDrive accounts today and soon wroth Dropbox integration.
Source: Office Blogs
Dropbox support coming to Office365 / iOS
With over 200M accounts Dropbox claims to be home to over 35 Billion Office documents. Accessing them is about to get a little bit easier for Office365 and iOS users. In the next update to Office for iOS users will be able to not only use documents in OneDrive but in Dropbox as well.
Source: Microsoft
File Size in OneDrive increased to 10 Gigabytes
The default file size for OneDrive (Formerly SkyDrive) has been 2GB for quite some time. While this was not an issue for the majority of files users worked with it was an issue for users uploading video or Outlook archive files. Today this limit has been increased to 10 GB which is large enough to back up almost all users Archive files. (Where we most often ran into the 2 GB limit)
Recommended: Office for iPad: 15m Webinar
The majority of our clients have at least a handful of users with iPads that are used for business. Whether BYOD or company provided we recommend an Office365 subscription to allow them to access the same documents they use on premises with the ability to create, and edit Office documents on your iPad with touch-friendly versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps.
Here we are linking a video from the Office15 Minute Webinar Series which will give you a looks at what Office Apps on the iPad look like and what they can do.
Source: Webinar: iPad, Office, and the cloud
OneNote updates Windows Store app to support printing, attachments and PDFs
The Windows store version (“Modern” or “Metro” if you prefer) has had a steady stream of features added since it shipped with Windows Surface RT but the number one thing missing has been Printing support. Fortunately the latest update does add support for this key feature as well as file attachments and PDF support, all of which were previously only available from the Desktop version of OneNote.
OneNote for Android updated
OneNote for Android has been updated with handwriting support bringing it more in line with the Surface / Windows and iPad/ iPhone versions. In addition to this there is now an Android Tablet optimized user interface.
Its great to see the Android version becoming more full featured, especially on Tablet.
OneNote Online co-authoring experience improvements
We use OneNote just as many of our clients do as a collaboration tool. Our employees access shared company notebooks and add / edit throughout the day. While an incredibly powerful tool, OneNote is not ideal for multiple users on a single page.
Continuing the flood of OneNote improvements these past few weeks Microsoft has added a new feature “People Presence” to allow you to see who else is working on the same page as you.
Additionally they have made improvements to the syncing speed. Traditionally changes made can and do take minutes, often leading to pages that were being edited to by multiple people to contain duplicate data. Syncing is now closer to real time.
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