Right on time, Microsoft Office 2016 is now available for Windows, following the Mac release from July. You can either get it as part of an Office 365 subscription, or you can go with a one-time purchase. The latter option has become available for Mac today as well, since up until this point you had to go the Office 365 route. The one-time price is $149.99 regardless of which OS you have.
Otherwise, Office 365 subscriptions start at $69.99 per year, and deliver continuous app updates as well as other integrated services such as Yammer, Delve, and Skype for Business.
Office 2016 comes with support for co-authoring, Skype in-app integration, and Office 365 Groups inside Outlook 2016. Additionally, Outlook 2016 has smart search, automatic removal of low-priority mail, and support for cloud-based attachments. Excel 2016 includes integrated publishing to Power BI, as well as new chart types. Throughout Office, there’s a most recently used documents list which lets you quickly jump back in.
Opera acaba de presentar una nueva identidad corporativa con su nuevo logo, con el que buscan empezar de cero acompañando su propuesta con una marca y una filosofía renovadas que se ajusten mejor a los proyectos actuales de la empresa.
Es cierto que a priori se podría pensar que en Opera no han querido arriesgar. A fin de cuentas, y tal y como señalan en Android Authority, el nnuevo logo de Opera no deja de ser su tradicional “O”, si bien han querido que sea más tridimensional y han añadido distintos diseños buscando darle un aire más actual.
La idea, según han comentado en el blog de Opera, es que el logotipo corporativo se parezca más a un portal, dando a entender que su producto es más que un simple navegador. Se ven a sí mismos como “facilitadores” que ofrecen al usuario el acceso al contenido que quiere encontrar, y es la misma razón por la que han mantenido la palabra software en su logo.
La nueva identidad corporativa de Opera ha corrido a cargo de su equipo creativo, que ha trabajado conjuntamente con DixonBaxi y Anti. El primero se ocupó de la estrategia creativa y de la nueva marca global, mientras que el segundo se ha encagado de la identidad visual.
Con respecto a la nueva identidad de marca, aún queda un tiempo hasta que llegue a todos sus productos. El nuevo icono que sirve de nueva imagen de la empresa llegará a iOS y Windows Phone hoy –extrañamente Android de momento se queda fuera–, y la división Opera Mediaworks debería empezar usarlo también a partir de ya.
El resto de la familia Opera recibirá el nuevo diseño en los próximos meses, empezando con –esta vez sí– Opera para Android, siguiendo por Opera Mini para Android y finalizando con Opera para PC. Opera Max y Opera Coast serán los últimos proyectos en recibirlo.
¿Y tú que piensas? ¿Te gusta la nueva identidad de Opera? Déjanos un comentario con tu opinión.
And the award for the most perplexing release of the fall goes to….Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5. Someday, a few years from now maybe, someone will dig deep and find out just what the hell happened with the production of this game, which was supposed to be a “return to form” for the series, but looks like anything but.
Samsung has announced their newest generation of PCI Express-based solid state storage technology today, dubbed the SSD 950 Pro. As a follow-up to the company’s very successful SSD 850 Pro series of drives, the new SSD 950 Pro also features Samsung’s 3D V-NAND (Vertical NAND) stacked Flash memory but now employs the latest NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) and PCIe (PCI Express Gen 3) interface technology to allow bandwidth to scale much higher. The drives are specified for an absolutely blistering top end speed of 2,500MB/sec for sequential reads and up to 1,500MB/sec for sequential writes. To put this into perspective, the average standard SATA SSD clocks in at about 500MB/sec for both read and write throughput, as result of the SATA interface bottleneck. NVMe over a PCI Express Gen 3 interface blows that bottleneck wide open.
The passion, determination, and competitive spirit of the WNBA’s best compete for the Championship Trophy is seen in the WNBA’s playoff and finals campaign ‘Watch Me’. It shows the players and the quest for excellence as they inspire on and off the court.
At least once a week, the media reports on some scandalous event concerning a lawyer. The latest was a doozy: the story ended with a prominent partner strapped to her seat to ensure the safety of others while the plane turned back. If it’s not that type of coverage, then it’s something about firm failures, the lack of legal jobs, law school rankings, and partners jumping firms. While the mid-flight meltdown is an extreme case, it does beg the question: Are lawyers happy in their careers?
I am well positioned to talk about a legal career. About ten years ago, I was a director of finance at one of Canada’s largest law firms, and in 2008, I returned to law school in Phoenix. Going in, I thought I would use my business background to practice as a white-collar prosecutor and ultimately, a defense attorney. Instead, based on my experience in an entrepreneur law clinic, I decided instead to build software to help business owners and later, attorneys. I inadvertently pursued the non-traditional path with my JD. Part of the choice was the downturn in the market, but the other part stemmed from the sad stories I heard about peoples’ pursuit of the traditional law route.
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