Microsoft has released Office Mobile for iPhone which is available at no extra charge from the Apple App Store for Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 ProPlus subscribers. Similar to our free Office Mobile for Windows Phone that ships with every handset, the iPhone app enables Office content viewing and on-the-go content editing capabilities.

After signing in to an Office 365 account, you can access, view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from anywhere. And, you can count on Office Mobile to keep all your content and formatting intact so the document still looks great when you're back on your PC or Mac.

FinalWire announced the availability of AIDA64 Extreme Edition 3.00 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users and the  availability of AIDA64 Business Edition 3.00 software, an essential network management solution for small and medium scale enterprises.

The new AIDA64 release introduces completely rewritten memory bandwidth and memory latency benchmarks, optimized for AVX2, AVX and SSE capable AMD, Intel and VIA processors. The latest AIDA64 update also implements optimized 64-bit benchmarks for AMD “Kabini” and Intel “Haswell” processors, and supports the latest AMD Radeon and nVIDIA GeForce graphics accelerators.

Microsoft has published first details about Windows 8.1, seven months after the introduction of Windows 8. "Not only will Windows 8.1 respond to customer feedback, but it will add new features and functionality that advance the touch experience and mobile computing’s potential," Antoine Leblond, Corporate Vice President, Windows Program Management said on Windows blog.

Futuremark has announced new version of their popular PC benchmarking tool, PCMark 8. For the first time in the series, PCMark 8 will combine performance testing with battery life measurement. You can estimate battery use from each benchmark test or use Battery Life mode to loop a test until the battery is almost empty for more accurate results. PCMark benchmark tests are based on common use scenarios such as browsing the web, photo editing, video chat, writing and gaming. PCMark 8 takes this one step further by including additional benchmark tests based on popular productivity and creativity applications from Adobe and Microsoft. PCMark 8 will be available in several editions ranging from a free to download Basic Edition to a fully-featured Professional Edition designed for device manufacturers, businesses and the press.

An update for 3DMark Android Edition is available from the Google Play store. While most of the changes in this update are minor optimizations and small bug fixes, there is one change to the Ice Storm Extreme test that is worth explaining in detail.

On April 8, 2014, support will end for two venerable Microsoft products: Windows XP and Office 2003. This means that XP customers and partners will no longer receive security updates or be able to take advantage of tech support from Microsoft. It’s the end of an era, but for businesses that still have PCs running Windows XP and Office 2003, it’s also an opportunity to make their IT more secure, mobile and productive and to meet the demands of the modern worker, Microsoft said.

Microsoft has confirmed in official blog a fundamental shift in business from a software company to a devices and services company. The example for this shift is Office 365 plus SkyDrive across Sony Tap, Surface Pro and Windows Phone, said Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft.

Microsoft is working "on plans to advance our devices and services, a set of plans referred to internally as Blue," Shaw said and added that the "chances of products being named thusly are slim to none." These plans are expected to manifest as improvements and refinements to Windows in a variety of devices, ranging from phones to tablets to servers.

Starting today, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will begin rolling out automatically on Windows Update. Updating customers to Windows 7 SP1 is part of Microsoft's ongoing effort to ensure continued support and improved security updates for customers who have not yet installed SP1, official Windows blog announced. Windows 7 SP1 was previously available on Windows Update but required user action to install.  Starting today, the installation will be fully automatic with no user action required for those who already have Automatic Update enabled. To ensure Service Pack 1 is installed without issue, customers should check for sufficient free disk space. If additional space needs to be created, Microsoft recommends using the Disk Cleanup tool to delete some files so that the service pack will install.  If the service pack installation is interrupted, it will reattempt to install automatically after the next restart.

Futuremark and GALAXY announced the start today of GALAXY Ice Storm, the first official overclocking contest using the new version of 3DMark. For the next four weeks, overclockers worldwide can win more than $16,000 USD in prizes by submitting the highest scores in the new 3DMark Ice Storm, Cloud Gate and Fire Strike benchmark tests. The competition is open to all overclockers using GALAXY or KFA2 brand graphics cards.

Microsoft has been fined €561 million by the European commission for failing to give users a choice of web browser when they logged into Windows computers in Europe between May 2011 and July 2012 – breaking a binding commitment it had made in 2009, The Guardian reported.