Overview of Office 365

Niraj Bhatt - Architect's Blog

Office 365 is suite of Microsoft products delivered software as a service from cloud. For consumers it represents a simplified pay as you go model, helping them use office products across multiple devices while for the enterprises the value proposition is workplace transformation by driving Enterprise Mobility.

Consumers can now pay a monthly subscription fee and have the word, excel and other office tools installed across 5 PCs and Macs. Users also get 5 more mobile office installs for Android and iOS platforms and there is a feature available called Office on demand which allows users to temporarily stream office 2013 applications on a windows 7 / 8 PC. In addition, one gets 20 GB of SkyDrive integrated with Office Web Apps (a subset of desktop version) and 60 Skype world minutes to make calls in over 60 countries.

Enterprises, on the other hand, are being disrupted by various…

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C# 7 feature request #1… extension attributes

Jon Skeet's coding blog

Last week I learned that using static is going to be the syntax for importing static members (including extension methods) in C# 6. That fulfils a feature request I made in September 2005 (my fourth ever blog post, as it happens). With a feature request turnaround of 10 years, I figure I should get put everything I could ever want out there now… (Just kidding really – more seriously, I’m really pleased to see this change in C# 6, relative to both C# 5 and the earlier designs of C# 6.)

Last week at CodeMash, Dustin Campbell demonstrated one Roslyn DiagnosticAnalyzer for ArgumentNullException and friends, and I demonstrated one I’d written for the JetBrains InvokerParameterName attribute. (Dustin’s isn’t available online yet; I’ll edit this post when it is.) The two diagnostics check largely the same thing: some parameters are “special” in that the argument for them should be…

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