Once more, Microsoft brings its ??A-game' to the smartphone table, and once more the beneficiary is not ms office 2013 but Apple's iOS.

Following a arguably groundbreaking discharge of Office for iOS and Android, together with clients for Skype and OneDrive, and the frankly unmissable reworking of Accompli into Outlook, Microsoft has debuted another application for Cupertino's mobile platform.

Microsoft Selfie may not be earth-shattering in its goal, but what it does is worth noting, because it illustrates a small sector of office 2013 home and business mobile plans going forward into 2016. The app takes a picture with your iPhone's forward-facing camera (or uses an existing picture), enables you to apply certainly one of a quantity of filters, vary the effectiveness of said filter, and save the resulting picture. Sharing to social networks, messaging or any other destinations has become your decision using your favourite client app.

The software echoes the Lumia Selfie application, originally designed for the Nokia Lumia Windows Phone devices, with the new app sharing the iconography from the Finnish original. The process has also smoothed out, with less reliance upon menus for options instead relying on sliders and push buttons.

It also applies its very own image processing to remove noise in the picture, improve skin tone, tweak the white balance, and generally make the base picture more acceptable before you hit the filters. No doubt the data gained during the ??Guess How old you are According to cheap Windows 10 Pro Picture' project from early 2015 may have been accustomed to discover what creates a better picture (hat tip to Nick Starr for your possible connection).

They're restless.

Users of office home and business 2010 who upgraded to Apple's OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan, have grown to be increasingly annoyed by repeated crashes from the Office applications, angrily denouncing Microsoft, and also to a smaller extent, Apple, on the former's support forum.

"It's called Office ??2016' because that's the expected date it ??might' work, although much more 2016 is not clear, assuming we are while using Gregorian calendar!" wrote someone identified only as "bluedolphin" in a Tuesday message on the longest thread dedicated to the crash issue.

As of late Wednesday, that thread have been viewed more than 39,000 times and contained nearly 400 messages, both high numbers for the Office for Mac support forums.

Most focused their ire on Microsoft.

"Light a fireplace under somebody's a to get a fix out, or at best a work-around," urged "MS Patsy" in a Monday answer a buy office 2010 professional program manager who had posted on the thread a week ago. "Now you realize why I switched to all Mac products. Windows and Outlook would be the only remnants of Microsoft JUNK that I'm left with."

But some expanded their exasperation to incorporate Apple.

"How could it be remotely feasible that neither Microsoft (mostly at blame) or Apple (ignorance is not great customer support) had any proactive communication not to DOWNLOAD EL CAPITAN?" asked a commenter labeled "cxr341" on Tuesday. "It would have been a simple correspondence: ??Hey, we have seen you use our new Office 2016 on Mac, there is a big OS X update coming, give us a bit of time until you download it.' No harm, no foul."

The bulk of those reporting problems with Office for Mac 2016 began seeing the applications crash a week ago after they upgraded to OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan. The problem dates back beyond that, however, with complaints first appearing July 10, only one day after office home and student for 2pc launched the production build of Office for Mac 2016 and Apple delivered its first public beta of El Capitan.