What Happens When You Contact Microsoft Support Services

If you are faced with any issue on your Windows operating system, it is better to visit the Official Microsoft Help page and seek for help rather than trying to solve the problem yourself. When you take the task into your own hands, you might risk the chance of making the problem even more severe if you are not completely sure of what you are doing!

The Microsoft help forum exists for this very reason. You can find everything there, from detailed text guides with pictures that explain everything from the nature of the problem to how you can solve it to a tutorial that ensures that you do not suffer from the same issue ever again! Such help and support pages contain articles on every possible issue, which can range from mundane to extremely complex ones. The best part about them happens to be the fact that they are completely free and can be accessed with the touch of a button.

At times, the error maybe a minor one, but the solution would not be at hand. Instead of fiddling with your computer without any solutions at hand, it is better to call up a separate company that specializes in providing third party Microsoft technical support. It is often a better idea than making sense of complicated instructions and facing problems that are too complicated to be handled by ourselves.

It is the job of such technical support experts to know the solution to your problems and to assist you in every possible way. Only the best professionals who have the required technical skill-sets are hired in such firms. Even after they are hired, they have to take part in regular refresher courses to make sure that they are familiar with the latest updates.

To help solve the issue, these tech support employees access your system using remote access software. This enables them to take control of your system as if they were physically present right beside you. Of course, you get to see what all changes they are making and you can regain control of your system at anytime if you are not comfortable to do so.

Solving problems yourself can be a tiring and frustrating process. Some tutorials, which are published in Microsoft help forum, might only work for selected systems and might not work for you! In such cases, rather than wasting your time, it makes more sense to seek assistance from a third party technical support team.

New Features Added To Outlook Web App In Exchange 2013

Outlook Web App (OWA), which was originally known by the name Outlook Web Access, is the web mail service from Microsoft Exchange Server. The service can be used for accessing your emails from the Desktop with a click of the mouse. The service is available twenty fours of the in a week and it allows the users to access not only their email accounts, but also their calendar and contact details. Even though it does not give the users a complete web mail experience like the Outlook email manager program, Outlook Web App is used by some users as a lighter replacement for the program.

Usually, people use OWA when they are on a public computer and are trying to access their mailbox for viewing emails or contacts. Some even use this program as a replacement of Outlook as they do not have enough money to afford the overpriced Microsoft Outlook price. However, some use the program simply because they like it more than the Outlook email client. The truth is that even the technicians in the Microsoft support team like OWA in place of Outlook as it relieves them from the added burden of developing, deploying and maintaining a specially designed email client.

However, even with the hefty Microsoft Outlook price, some people go for the email client due to the reason that it allows the users to work offline with their calendars and emails whereas Outlook Web App requires constant internet connectivity for functioning. This is the main reason for the popularity of Outlook email client and the lesser popularity of OWA. However, with new updates installed with OWA, it will not be the same.

One of the major changes made to the service is that the company had improved the design of OWA, so that now it has a fresh and modern look. The service will now look same in all devices and platforms as it now has a simplified modern look. The company has also added new formatting options with the service for the email users to explore and use. One of the major advancements the service got was the ability to drag and drop files as attachments. You will now also have the ability to view pictures in an attachment without having to open or download them to the system.

Hope you got some idea about the Outlook Web App from iCloud 24x7. For further information of the service, contact our tech support desk.

Setup And User Interface Of Windows Phone 8

The Start screen of the Windows operating system got the biggest facelift through Windows Phone 8. There are also many important changes to the lock screen that has made the operating system even more useful. In the Windows Phone 7, the users were allowed to get some details about the next appointment in the calendar. In the Windows Phone 8, the users can swap it out for the most recent unread mail, missed call or text message. The user has the option to customize the notifications on the bottom of the screen as the user can choose the type of notifications that they receive and the order in which they are displayed. This information was confirmed after contacting the Windows support number.

In Windows Phone 8, there is ample room for five standard sized icons. It is a very good improvement over WP7, but unfortunately, this is not better than the notification system of Android operating system. The user also has the option to dynamically update the lock screen background to display information of third party apps. For example, HTC does a terrific job in its weather app, letting the users view the current temperature and the weather forecast. Other apps like CNN will offer breaking news updates in a similar way. The user can also have the lock screen to show off the Bing photo, if you are looking for eye candy.

Apart from these two changes, the Windows Phone 8 does not include a number of drastic changes to the UI. This does not mean that Microsoft has not thrown in extra features in Windows Phone 8. This just means that people who are familiar with the modern User Interface will not be having much of a learning curve when they start using their new handsets.

WP8 provides a number of elements for rendering text, in addition to the set of properties that are aimed at making a variety of formatted text. In addition, the user will be able to make an app bar to provide quick access to an app’s most frequent tasks. By using the app bar of Windows Phone, you help to make a consistent User Interface across all the apps on the Windows device.

If you wish to know more on the feature updates that are introduced by Windows Phone 8, you can contact the Windows support number. They will be able to give you the latest information on the features of Windows Phone 8.

Checkout The Newly Introduced Features And Options In Outlook Webmail

Microsoft launched the Outlook webmail service and merged their existing Hotmail service to it, so that they take the competition from Google’s Gmail and Yahoo Mail head on. However, there have been a few technical glitches and problems with the Outlook webmail service.

These resulted in a few bouts of temporary service outage that affected many Outlook users. Though these problems affected only a few users, the news spread quickly online.

Microsoft introduces some new features in Outlook.com

In short, Microsoft needs to remove this stain and make the Outlook.com service look more user-friendly and efficient. Maybe that’s why they have launched this new update for their free email service, and not for their paid Office 365 service.

If you go to your Outlook webmail page, you will see a new much more advanced Outlook setting for assigning Rules. Rule was originally an Outlook mail client feature, which Microsoft has introduced in their webmail service as well.

Now, a typical Outlook user will be getting dozens of emails every day and hundreds stored in their Inbox folders every month. You can use the Rule Outlook setting to set the mail server to perform certain actions, if certain conditions are met. For example, you can set Outlook to transfer all the email messages received from a particular sender to a particular folder. The server will check the email messages that are under this condition (the sender email address) and perform the assigned action (transferring the message to the assigned folder).

The newly introduced Advanced Rules option brings much more options for setting the conditions and actions in Outlook webmail. This means that you can use these settings to make the Outlook server do most of the work of rearranging the email messages, by setting up the right conditions and actions.

You will also see a new Undo button, which can be accessed by pressing the Ctrl + Z. This was a much-needed requirement. Accidental deletions and moving of messages are very common, especially when you are dealing with so many email messages. From now on, when such things happen, you just need to press the Undo button and your last action will be undone.

These are just some of the new features introduced in the Outlook webmail service. Login to your Outlook account to find out more about the other new features.

Microsoft Considers Xbox Live Integration With Android And IOS Games

Microsoft is always keen to experiment with various things, and their latest research is regarding the integration of Android and iOS games to their gaming service called Xbox Live. Xbox is a series of gaming consoles released by Microsoft that compete with the Sony’s PlayStation devices. Previously, Microsoft used the Xbox Live only in the Microsoft consoles and Windows phone and was mainly employed by the users for managing friends list, achievements, and for playing games. As a new experiment, the tech giant is planning to make the Xbox Live compatible with other competitors like Apple and Android.

According to the reports coming from the various sources like The Verge, it is clear that the tech giant is seriously making plans to extend the compatibility of the Xbox Live service to other platforms. Experts assume that this may be due to the fact that the number of gamers in Android and iOS devices is increasing quite speedily than in the Xbox devices. Thus, the main intention behind this decision is to attract more users and thereby boost their popularity and revenue.

The move was first reported in the Microsoft job posting site, which reads: “We will create a modern framework that is open-source, lightweight, extensible and scalable across various platforms including Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android.” By making Xbox Live to integrate in to various apps and games, Microsoft is really trying hard to regain their game developers from its competitors like Apple and Google. As of now, a certification and permission from Microsoft is needed to access Xbox Live, but soon, there will be fewer restrictions and more tools for the game developers to work with.

It is clearly understood that when Xbox Live is incorporated in all the latest platforms, it will help game developers to come up with more games for Xbox Live irrespective of the platform in which they have been developed. Windows Live technical support team revealed that this is why they are planning to hire new developers for building the platform.

Even though Google has its own game service just like that of Apple’s, it intends to create a cross platform game service that will help the gamers across multiple platforms to find friends, to do cross platform gaming and to earn achievements. This means that the competition will be tight. For more news and information regarding this, contact Windows Live technical support team right away.

Microsoft Relaxes XP Support Policy In China

Although Microsoft cancelled Windows online support for XP on April 8, the Chinese users of Windows XP seems to be least bothered. Statistics indicate that about 80 percent of the Windows users in China go for XP. The operating system has got wider popularity in the region. However, the unfading demand for Windows XP in China is literally bothering Microsoft. Being a country of 1.3 billion people, China has the potential to be the largest market for Windows operating systems. However, that Windows XP is not replaced by the latest Windows Operating systems like Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 is certainly for Microsoft’s disfavour.

An analysis of Windows XP market share in China

Windows XP holds two records in China. It is the largest market for both licensed version as well as pirated version of Windows XP in the world. While most of the organizations and government offices in China have the licensed Windows XP OS, home users go for pirated version owing to the unaffordable price tag. This has been the case ever since the very first release of Windows XP in China, which dates back to 2001.

Microsoft to provide to special concession for XP users in China

It was lately reported that the tech giant was ready to extend security support for Windows XP users in China owing to the unfading demand for the OS in the country. However, Microsoft said that it was not offering the security support on its own but in collaboration with internet security vendors in the country. The report was published in Microsoft’s official account with Sina Weibo. Tencent, the largest Internet firm in China has emerged as the top partner of Microsoft to provide security support for Windows XP in the country.

Unclear about the types of security services

Microsoft has not revealed yet as to what types of support will be extended for Windows XP users in China. Meanwhile, an expert in China said that the extended security support for Windows XP, that Microsoft is planning to offer, is less likely to be used by majority of the Chinese users as most of them are using pirated version of Windows XP.

In the past 13 years, only 10 percent of the Chinese Windows XP users downloaded the free Windows updates or contacted Windows online support for any help. It simply means that, whatever Microsoft does, XP users in China don’t really care.

Ability Of Toolbar Cleaner To Remove Extensions

Toolbars are most often treated as malicious programs by majority of computer users. Even though there are genuine toolbars that are meant to help computer users, quite a lot that we find today simply intrude into our desktops and laptops and put us in circles. They simply appear out of the blue and start acting like adware or spywares. Some of them simply refuse to leave your browser despite your hard efforts to uninstall them from your system.

Toolbars normally come attached with a software program and they carry several utilities that can help you to access your web browser. Sometimes, they even change your home browser page and refuse to leave your browser even if you attempt to. One of the major perils of a toolbar is that it uses up more space on the web browser page and you will find only limited space to have a good view of the website. There is no doubt that this can embarrass you a lot. You will definitely wish to have a toolbar remover tool that could help you.

You might have already heard about AVG Security Toolbar and Babylon Toolbar and both of them can be uninstalled easily from your computer using a toolbar remover tool. Toolbar Cleaner is one such remover tool that is capable of making alterations to the computer and it also installs software along with it. This toolbar remover is found to support a webpage and hence it would change the default homepage on your web browser.

Toolbar Cleaner supports web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It checks and displays the presence of toolbars present on the system. It also displays browser extensions along with the apps that are installed on it. The add ons and extensions of Firefox, Chrome and others are scanned by Toolbar Cleaner. Their main advantage is that they uninstall the unwanted extensions from the web browsers. You can try to delete or uninstall the apps and extensions of web browsers by selecting one after another and then deleting individually.

You can uninstall toolbars, add-ons, extensions, apps and others easily and while doing this process, ensure that the web browser is closed. Otherwise, certain errors can interrupt the removal process. Hope you are now ready to try Toolbar Cleaner. There is no doubt that you can avoid your problems with toolbars and related extensions using this wonderful cleaner.