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A better way to manage aliases and primary email address for your Microsoft account 

One of our principles is that we should adapt to how you want to work, not vice versa. This is why we allow you to use any email address to sign in to your Microsoft account. We've also heard from you that over time things change with your account -- you might get married, start a new job, move or any number of life events that make you want to change your email address. We want to make it easier to keep your account up to date as these life events happen.
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Cloud services you can trust: Office 365 availability 

<p>"Your complete office in the cloud" is how we think of Microsoft Office 365. While it gives us enormous pride that one billion people use Office, we deeply appreciate the responsibility we have to meet and exceed our customers' expectations every day. We recognize that productivity apps are mission critical; using them is how work gets done. It is imperative for us to ensure our service is trustworthy and reliable while we continue to add new capabilities to Office 365. Our measure for this is service availability.</p>
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Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview Now Available 

Today, I’m excited to announce that Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview is now available for download for customers to start testing the operating system in their environments. Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview builds on the Window 8.1 Preview which is currently available, adding premium features designed to address mobility, security, management and virtualization needs of today’s enterprise.
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Manage your spreadsheets with Data Validation in the Excel Web App (aka an awesome tool to prevent your friends from messing up your data) 

<p>If you've ever wanted to leverage the power of Data Validation in Excel combined with the flexibility of Web Excel, now you can!  In this post we walk through an example of how easy it is to collect information from a group of friends through Web Excel without having to worry about managing emails, receiving incorrect data, or manually aggregating information.   Read on to learn more! </p>
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OWA for iPhone and OWA for iPad 

<p>OWA for iPhone and OWA for iPad available now!  OWA for iPhone and OWA for iPad provide even more value to organizations on any Office 365 subscription that includes Exchange Online.  OWA for iPhone and OWA for iPad are mobile apps that offer the same email, calendar and contact functionality you get in Outlook Web App on the browser, but with additional capabilities that are only possible through native integration of the app with mobile devices.</p>
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What powers Power BI in Office 365? 

<p>Power BI for Office 365 is a new self-service business intelligence (BI) offering enabling businesses to gain insights from their data in powerful new ways within Excel and Office 365. Customers now have the ability to easily search, discover and access data inside and outside of their organization and, with just a few clicks, shape and transform that data. They can also analyze and create stunning interactive visualizations that uncover hidden insights to share and collaborate from virtually anywhere, on nearly any device.</p>
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Join the OneNote team for a reddit AMA on Tuesday, July 9th 

Tomorrow at 10AM (Pacific)/1PM (Eastern) the OneNote team will open its doors to the outside world.  We're partnering with reddit to give you an opportunity to ask us anything (well, nearly anything) about OneNote, why we do things a little uniquely, where the obsession with the color purple comes from, and generally any intimate detail you've been thinking about. &nKeep reading to learn more.