Specifically, Microsoft is working on a "ribbon" concept in which the user would get a different strip or ribbon of icons depending on the task at hand—whether it's a simple note, a fancy ...

Microsoft Office 365 and Office 2013 have some great new features, including a user interface that makes the venerable productivity suite very usable on tablets. Microsoft, which announced Office 2013 ...

Earlier this year, I was writing an e-mail message using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and clicked on the button for adding one of my signature blocks. Presto! Most of my message disappeared!

Jensen Harris drops a bombshell on his blog today. With certain understandable restrictions, Microsoft will issue a royalty-free perpetual license to any developer who wishes to use the new Ribbon UI ...

The next version of Microsoft Office is expected later this year. Here are tidbits we know about the overall suite The next version of Microsoft Office is expected to arrive later this year. We don’t ...

If you've been following my coverage of Google Apps (that's Google's official name for when a collection of Google's services including Docs, Spreadhseets, Calendar, and GMail run in a domain-specific ...

REDMOND, Wash. — March 21, 2006 — In his opening keynote address today at the company’s second annual Microsoft® Office System Developers Conference, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software ...

In the preceding two columns, I’ve been reporting on correspondence with Microsoft expert Mark Alexieff, senior product manager for Microsoft Office concerning the company’s decision to change the ...