News of an outage of from eight to 12 hours involving Microsoft’s Exchange Online email system came shortly after the company announced a huge expansion of the OneDrive cloud storage service. So you get 15GB free, and 1GB if you subscribe to one of the Office 365 services. There are also individual packages covering just the storage, but […]

As most of you know, Microsoft is not nearly as flexible or successful as Apple in keeping secrets. Sure, news about an upcoming Apple gadget will usually leak from the supply chain, but software releases tend to get a higher level of protection from the teeming masses of tech journalists and financial analysts. Of course, […]

So the news came this week that Microsoft’s stock has ticked up. Part of an overall trend, or did something happen to increase optimism about the company? Has newly-minted CEO Satya Nadella announced something really special? Not exactly, although there’s plenty of anticipation, particularly now that Microsoft’s note-taking app, OneNote, is now available for OS […]