As blogger-in-chief of MommaSaid.net for the past 10 years, Jen Singer has used technology to work around her kids' (and occasionally, her cat's) schedules. She's done pre-show interviews with TV producers from the supermarket cereal aisle and edited books on her laptop while waiting for track practice to end. Now with SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud-based storage system, her Office can truly be wherever she is. She started writing this blog post on her home desktop, saved it to SkyDrive, put her cat in his carrier, and dashed off to the vet. While waiting for him to have a few tests, she fired up her tablet, pulled this document off SkyDrive, and continued writing in Word while listening to a chorus of disgruntled cats. Read on to learn more about how the new Office supports Jen's on-the-go, working mom lifestyle.

SharePoint Online (SPO) has a gaggle of new innovation and welcome improvements. The premier sharing service is updated with a new, fluid user interface, active personal file sharing, higher storage limits for both personal and team sites, a high-end cloud app development model, and more robust tooling for admins to more easily and effectively control their SPO environment. Everyone benefits from the new SharePoint Online!

• Users benefit with new ways to share internally and externally and anonymously, in how they search and discover the right information and people and how they build sites and experiences in a more self-service fashion.
• Project managers now have better ways to organize documents, project details and timelines.
• Developers are no longer limited on the types of solutions they can deliver to the Office 365 cloud.
• IT Professionals can more easily manage sites and permissions on behalf of their entire company.

This article will cover the top 10 new SPO innovations with a pointer at the end to the new SPO service description - home to all SharePoint features across all offerings (online and on-premises).

Want polished photos, but you're not a professional photographer? Guest blogger Cynthia Hartwig shows you how to use the new Picture Effects Crop Tool to focus on the action and make your images pop.

Please join us Wednesday, April 3 at 9am PT/12pm ET for a special episode of the new Office Garage Series with live discussion and Q&A as we are joined by well-known technology analyst, author and blogger, Paul Thurrott (winsupersite.com), early adopter customers, and expert Microsoft Office engineers. Read on to mark your calendar and tune in.

If you are working with Windows 8--or your business will be using Windows 8 soon--check out this week's webinar. We will go over shortcuts and quick navigation for keyboard and mouse. See the trailer or click "read more" to watch the full webinar.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar

• Using a mouse and keyboard with Windows 8
• Keyboard shortcuts...

Every couple weeks we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Read on for our latest selections.

We love Project IT Pros. Always in the trenches and getting their hands dirty with the latest technologies and improvements, IT Pros are the engine that keeps many project management offices running. With the release of the new Project, now there are new and improved ways for IT Pros to keep bolting infrastructure into place and tweaking performance levers to deliver high-quality capabilities to their organizations. To help, we rounded up some of our most popular articles and organized them by common work responsibilities. Here, the focus is on IT Pros, with topics including OData integration, timesheet infrastructure improvements, and great new ways to use SharePoint Designer to deliver ever-better Demand Management solutions. IT Pros, we salute you!

Project managers can do their best work when life is easy for their team members. With the release of the new Project, now there are new and improved ways for team members to do their part in keeping the project on track with minimal process friction. To help, we rounded up some of our most popular articles and organized them by common work responsibilities. Here, the focus is on team members, with topics including consolidated task management, quick collaboration, and streamlined time tracking--which should put a smile on everyone's face.

The new Excel makes creating and customizing charts simpler and more intuitive. One part of the fluid new experience is the Formatting Task pane, which replaces the Format dialog box. The new Formatting Task pane is the single source for formatting--all of the different styling options are consolidated in one place. With this single task pane, you can modify not only charts, but also shapes and text in Excel.

In this episode, the intrepid Garage Series hosts explore the change in guard of compatibility tools. Conducting the great race of Office installs, they catch up with Office engineer John Hoegger about Microsoft's own implementation of the new Office globally. Watch as they examine user training, compatibility and pushing out the bits to answer whether or not rolling out Office just got faster.