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Project Online shuts down on 30 September 2026. After that date, your PWA environment goes dark — no access, no data recovery, no exceptions. Microsoft’s official guidance is to export your data and migrate before the deadline. This guide covers what data you actually have, the two methods for getting it out, and an honest […]
On 12 May 2026, Google announced the Googlebook — a new laptop category running Aluminium OS, their merged Android and ChromeOS platform, with Gemini AI integrated at the system layer. Devices ship from five major OEMs this autumn. This is the most serious challenge to Windows on the laptop Google has ever put forward. Here […]
A genuine Visual Studio 2026 Professional licence key activates the full IDE permanently on one PC — no subscription, no annual renewal. The purchase takes two minutes. The activation takes five. This is the complete walkthrough, including the workload decisions that most guides skip over. Ready to buy Visual Studio 2026 Professional — £280 Perpetual […]
Office 2019 support ended on 14 October 2025. No more security patches, no extended security updates programme — just an application that keeps running while silently accumulating unpatched vulnerabilities. If you’re still on it in 2026, you’re six versions behind on Excel functions, one phishing email away from a bad day, and still paying nothing […]
Visio Professional 2024 and Visio Plan 2 run from the same desktop application, share the same core feature set, and produce the same diagram files. Microsoft confirms it directly: Plan 2 “includes the same capabilities as Visio Professional 2024.” The question, then, is whether the cloud extras that subscription adds are worth paying for indefinitely. […]
Office 2024 for Mac requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later for a fresh install. If you’re running Ventura or older, you can no longer install a fully updated copy — and from September 2025, Ventura users stopped receiving security patches. This is the complete picture: exact requirements, which Mac models qualify, and what to do […]
Microsoft sells Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as standalone perpetual licences — no suite, no subscription required. This guide covers what each one includes, what each costs, and when buying individually actually works in your favour versus simply picking up the suite. Buy Microsoft Office Apps Individually All three standalone apps are in stock now with […]