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Data protection can be more difficult if WE are the biggest danger to our own data. Data protection is on the minds of many business owners and IT personnel lately with the recent ransomware and cyber attacks happening all over the place. Many companies are switching over to cloud services to store their data on much more secure servers than their own on-premises machines can provide. Users of Office 365 use Microsoft’s own hardened servers to protect their sensitive data, allowing admins to focus on managing applications rather than the day-to-day tasks. While cloud storage on OneDrive is very secure...

Using a particular template in Excel, you can track your fitness, exercise regimens, progress, and much more by loading you information into Office 365.     Looking for a much easier way to track your fitness without complicated calculations? You can find it in a seemingly unlikely place: Office 365. Through the calculating power of Excel and the portability of Office 365, you will be able to track your fitness goals and progress at home and on the go by just setting up a spreadsheet. The only real preparation you need to do is determine the number of times you...

Moving away from a centralized network to a cloud-based system is the key to successfully adopting Office 365 for your enterprise. Many enterprise-level businesses are moving towards Office 365 in record numbers (there will be an estimated 100 million users by the end of 2017) for the features it offers, but some are facing challenges when converting over. Many of these businesses either have or are trying to implement changes to their existing centralized networks to prepare for the power necessary to convert to Office 365, but have been met with problems regarding bandwidth, firewall security, and more. The true...

With the announcement of the new Surface Pro and Surface Pen, Office 365 is getting a new stylus and inking capabilities. Microsoft is having quite the year so far, announcing many new Surface products with the new Surface Pen being chief among them. The new Surface Laptop was featured at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, and the new Surface Pro tablet/laptop hybrid with the much-improved Surface Pen came during a reveal at a Shanghai Keynote conference. Corporate VP of Devices Panos Panay lead the presentation, placing a special emphasis on the Surface Pen and the abilities it will possess when...

Many Microsoft Windows and Office products will be losing support in 2017, so is it time for you to upgrade to the newest software? Microsoft supports its products for long periods of time, but eventually, they finally do end all support for their older product lines. This lack of support can prove troublesome for people who are slow to adopt newer software products as their older software can quickly pass out of relevance once all support ceases. In 2017, Microsoft will be ending support (or already has ended) for many of its Windows and Office products. Depending on what you...