Microsoft tries social media again with Skype sharing and Sway blogging

Follow:   11.05.2015  View in a Browser Microsoft tries social media again with Skype sharing and Sway blogging 11.04.2015 11:50 AM Microsoft's social media track record is abysmal, but these subtler takes could ease users into using Skype and Sway as social tools. Microsoft finally ties the knot with Red Hat for Linux on Azure 11.04.2015 12:18 PM In a move many consider long overdue, Microsoft and Red Hat on Wednesday announced a new partnership through which Microsoft will offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Azure. -ADVERTISEMENT-   PCWorld Superguides Check our Guides packed with practical how-tos, in-depth features, tips and tricks, and more! Laptops on PCWorld Our award-winning editors keep you up to date   Facebook tops 1.5 billion monthly users 11.04.2015 2:01 PM Facebook has passed another milestone, reporting Wednesday that its base of monthly active users passed 1.5 billion for the first time. Dropbox woos large businesses with new Enterprise offering 11.04.2015 2:19 PM Large enterprises have a new Dropbox product tailored for them that the company unveiled at its user conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Wi-Fi Alliance tries to win consumer support as LTE-U showdown looms 11.04.2015 2:25 PM The Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry group that certifies Wi-Fi products for interoperability, has highlighted the importance of the technology to the daily lives of Americans ahead of a testing summit that will try to shed some light on potential conflicts between Wi-Fi and a carrier technology called LTE-U. Microsoft's Excel team talks Visual Basic vs. JavaScript and Mac woes in Reddit AMA 11.04.2015 2:30 PM Microsoft's Excel team takes to Reddit to answer questions and reassure users that yes, you can open up more than one Excel window at the same time. Eero delays delivery of its mesh-network router, but gains investors 11.04.2015 2:30 PM The new router's ship date has been pushed to early 2016, but the company says it's raised more than $40 million in venture capital. Users demand Microsoft give them back their OneDrive unlimited storage 11.04.2015 3:30 PM As of early Wednesday, an online petition had collected nearly 2,000 virtual signatures. MariaDB pops up on Azure with new cluster service 11.05.2015 2:20 AM Companies interested in deploying the increasingly popular MariaDB open-source database on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform now have an easy way to do so, thanks to a new offering provided through the Azure Marketplace. How to stop Windows 10 from saving files to OneDrive 11.05.2015 3:03 AM If you don't watch out, Windows 10 will put your documents, music, and photos into OneDrive. Here's how to get them back and stop this behavior. The hated cable box is finally coming to the end of the road 11.05.2015 4:00 AM Cable companies are finally realizing that expensive hardware is holding them back. The best cheap Cardboard VR viewer is Mattel's View-Master? 11.05.2015 4:00 AM It looks like a toy, but this sturdy phone-based VR viewer is ideal for the whole family.       You are subscribed to this newsletter as: messi1927@gmail.com More PCWorld Newsletters / Manage Subscriptions / Unsubscribe IDG Consumer & SMB Privacy Policy © 2015 IDGCSMB, 501 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107