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Microsoft To Release Office 365 'Personal' Edition in Spring

A so-called "Personal" edition of Office 365 is set to roll out this spring, Microsoft announced on Thursday.

Microsoft Paves Way for Identity Federation Alternatives in Office Apps

Microsoft recently described how it's enabling different approaches to identity federation with Microsoft Office apps and Office 365 apps via Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0.

Microsoft To Offer OneDrive for Business as Standalone Service

Microsoft will release its OneDrive for Business product, formerly named SkyDrive Pro, as a standalone service in April.

Microsoft Talks Up Office 365 Collaboration Tools, Demos 'Oslo'

Microsoft is using this week's SharePoint Conference to make some broader announcements, including two new social networking technologies for Office 365 and SharePoint Online that are planned for release sometime this year.

SP1 for Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013 Released

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that Service Pack 1 for Office Office 2013, Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013 is now available.

Microsoft Replaces Office Web Apps with 'Office Online'

Microsoft's Office Web Apps product is now named "Office Online" and can now be accessed easily from the front page of Office.com, the company announced this week.

Office 365's E-Mail Encryption Service Hits General Availability

Microsoft's Office 365 Message Encryption service, unveiled in November, is now commercially available, the company announced this week.

Microsoft Simplifies Yammer Access for Office 365 Users

Thanks to "user mapping" technology, Office 365 users no longer have to sign in to Yammer to access the enterprise social networking product, Microsoft said on Tuesday.

Office 365 Gets Multifactor Authentication at No Cost

Microsoft this week added free multifactor authentication support to its standalone Office 365 plans, as well as to the Midsize Business, Enterprise, Academic and Nonprofit Office 365 plans.

Microsoft's Communication Failure on Office 365 Payment Cuts

A little more warning would've been nice.

Power BI for Office 365 Hits General Availability

Microsoft's so-called "self-service business intelligence" product, Power BI for Office 365, hit the general availability milestone on Monday.

Microsoft Releases Access Apps for Office 365

Office 365 users can now take advantage of Microsoft's Access apps, which reached general availability on Monday.

Microsoft Addresses Office 365 ProPlus Update Criticisms

Microsoft on Tuesday addressed misgivings from administrators over how much control they have over the Office 365 ProPlus update process.

Microsoft, GoDaddy Partner on Office 365 for Small Biz

Hosting service provider GoDaddy and Microsoft have entered a deal to offer Microsoft's Office 365-branded hosted e-mail services to small businesses, the two companies announced Monday.

Microsoft Releases Power BI Pricing Info; Availability Expected Early 2014

Microsoft recently posted the pricing details for Power BI, its suite of solutions designed make it easy for Excel users to create visualizations from collections of data.