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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...

Microsoft announces that protection from ransomware like the recent “WannaCrypt” attacks will be part of the long-awaited Windows 10 Creators Update. In a recent article from Microsoft, the subject of combating ransomware like the recent attacks around the world takes center stage as a premier addition to the Windows 10 Creators Update. Microsoft seems to be doubling down on its own antivirus software as well as hardware solutions to deal with the debilitating attacks like WannaCrypt. The Windows strategy of dealing with these attacks include: Utilizing hardware-based security (built into Windows 10) and use mitigations to increase risk to attackers...

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...

Day 2 of Microsoft Build 2017 departed from purely technical products for a more conceptual approach to appeal to the “creators” in the audience. Microsoft has kept artists, designers, architects, and more in mind in the creative-centric direction Microsoft is taking Windows, which in turn has birthed the next Creators Update coming this fall for Windows 10. The Microsoft Build 2017 presentation decisively focused on the people themselves who can utilize the powerful tools of Windows 10 in tandem with Microsoft’s line of Surface products to effectively marry art and technology together cohesively. The three main pillars of the Microsoft...

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...