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As cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service continue to take hold, Microsoft’s flagship Office productivity suite now appears less a standalone product than a hierarchy of services, each with different levels of functionality for different markets. The big question: Will your version of Office do everything you need it to? On Wednesday, sources told the Verge that Microsoft plans a “preview” version of Office for the basic Windows RT version of the Surface tablet. That version of Office will lose support for Visual Basic, macros and third-party add-ons, specifically to optimize the Surface’s battery life. The preview version will apparently be dubbed “Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 RT Preview,” the Verge reported. If that’s true, Office functionality will essentially be spread across three tiers: Office Web Apps for the most basic consumer use, Office RT for basic tablet use and the full-fledged Office boxed software product, also available in an Office 365 subscription mo...

Aug 10, 2012 6:20 PM   You might think an ergonomic Herman Miller chair and a perfectly positioned desk would make for the ideal home workspace. But you've been lied to. When you have the luxury of working from home you're gonna want to put your feet up, and Coalesse's forthcoming Hosu lounger lets you do just that. It easily transformers from a chair to a lounger by just flipping over a hinged cushion, and pockets located on the sides and back mean you don't need to waste money on a filing cabinet when outfitting your home office. The Hosu also seems to be the first seating solution that acknowledges the existence of charging cables, and so provides strategically placed channels to tuck them away so they're not just hanging all over the place. There's no pricing info just yet, but come the fall you'll be able to get it in 36 or 64-inch wide styles, in one of six fabric colors. [Coalesse] View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blo...

Jul 27, 2012 11:00 PM   If you're reading this post there's a pretty good chance you're doing so on a computer. You're probably sitting in a wonderfully ergonomic office chair too. We have Charles Darwin to thank for the latter—sort of. Darwin was a notorious workaholic. Though he spent many years gallivanting around the world collecting specimens, at some point he had to sit down and actually study them. Office chairs hadn't been invented yet, so Darwin slapped some wheels on the to feet of his chair so he could work faster. It's basically an armchair on wheels which isn't what we're used to, but it was ahead of its time. It took people a long time to accept Decent of Man , too. The office chair actually went into mass production long before Darwin's ideas were widely embraced. But we have industrialization to thank for its advent. With the rise of the clerical worker in the second half of the 19th century, office chairs were adopted to facilitate...

Billy Gallagher is a writer for TechCrunch. He is also the president and editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. Billy previously worked at The Stanford Daily for two volumes as a managing editor of news. He has also worked in sports and staff development at The Daily. In March of 2012 the Friends of The Stanford Daily awarded him... ? Learn More Facebook announced today that they have opened a London engineering office, adding to their Menlo Park, New York and Seattle engineering offices. The company has 22 open positions at the new office. Facebook says it has engineers scattered at its other numerous U.S. and foreign offices, but this is the first official international engineering office. Calling the city a “perfect fit” in a blog post earlier today, Facebook software engineer and London team leader Philip Su wrote, “Our team in London will start small, focusing on building a core of great engineers, and then grow over time and eventually focus on building products in key areas li...