April 29th, 2011

AudioMicro Partners With Microsoft: Free Music, Sound Effects For Office 2010 Users

AudioMicro, a site where you can find royalty-free stock music and sound effects backed by DFJ Frontier and Fotolia, has struck a deal with Microsoft to provide music and sound effect files to Microsoft Office 2010 users worldwide.

Under the terms of the licensing and distribution deal, Microsoft Office 2010 users are able to select from a hand-picked collection of over 1,500 music tracks and→ Read More

August 21st, 2009

Office.com Goes Live

Microsoft recently became the new, proud owner of the attractive generic domain name Office.com after purchasing it from a U.S. entrepreneur for an undisclosed amount. Rather than reserving the name for its upcoming online suite of business software services, the domain name went live this morning with a forward to the Microsoft Office Online website.

For reference, that website is designed to… → Read More

August 6th, 2009

Confirmed: Microsoft Is The New Owner Of Office.com

We speculated about this when we first reported on Microsoft’s recent announcements regarding its software-in-the-cloud strategy, and now it’s official: istartedsomething and Download Squad have confirmed that the domain name office.com is now a property of the Redmond software behemoth, based on a simple WHOIS query.

Guess where Office Web (or whatever it’ll be called) be hosted soon? → Read More