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For July, 2009

Jul 31

Competition for Windows, NASA Moves to the Cloud, Windows Mobile Better than the iPhone?

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Working in Harmony (Redmond Mag)
I recently made more than a hundred mini training videos to help administrators and users understand the incredible features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. I started working on building out the SharePoint Server, as I couldn’t demonstrate features without a demo site to work with. It was all coming together smoothly when I decided to continue administration from the perspective of a SharePoint admin who wouldn’t have direct access — or even remote desktop access — to the box. Continue reading this entry »

Jul 30

Microsoft & Yahoo – Together at Last, More Free Wi-Fi, Securing E-mail but Not File Transfers?

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Yahoo Tie-Up Is Latest Sign Tide Turning for Microsoft’s Ballmer (The Wall Street Journal)
Microsoft Corp.’s deal to join forces with Yahoo Inc. in the Internet search and advertising businesses could create a counterweight to the online muscle of Google Inc. It may also help Steve Ballmer end the worst slump in his career at the helm of Microsoft. For the past several years, Microsoft has been stung by missteps, including a clumsy defeat last year in Mr. Ballmer’s unsolicited bid to acquire all of Yahoo. Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system was pilloried for technical problems, and its videogame ambitions were nearly thwarted by widespread malfunctions of its Xbox 360 console. Continue reading this entry »
Jul 29

Microsoft Tests Office 2010 Streaming-download, How Bill Gates uses Office, Google to Reinvent Email

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Microsoft Privately Testing Office 2010 Streaming-download Model (ZDNet)
Microsoft has invited selected testers to try out a new way of delivering Office 2010 to customers using virtualization and streaming technologies. Microsoft made test code available for what it’s calling the “Microsoft Office 2010 Click-To-Run Technical Preview Program for Home, Student and Small Business Consumers” to hand-picked testers last week. Continue reading this entry »

Jul 28

3 New Microsoft Security Tools, What SharePoint Can Do for Your Firm, Emergency IE Patch Released Today

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4.7 Million Dumped IBM Lotus Notes and Domino for Exchange and SharePoint (Softpedia)
Microsoft indicated that it was continuously eroding IBM’s market unified communications share, and that customers dumping the hardware giant were in the millions. The Redmond company pointed out that almost five million people switched from IBM Lotus Notes and Domino to Exchange and SharePoint in the last year alone. According to the software giant, the main aspects that drew customers away from IBM’s unified communications products and onto Microsoft’s solutions are cost reductions and the boost in efficiency. Continue reading this entry »

Jul 27

2010 Beta Vs. Office 2007, Windows 7 Offers Browser Options, Inside The Microsoft Store

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SharePoint Like a Messy Paintbox, Conference Told (Computer World)
The first New Zealand SharePoint community conference, held earlier this month in Wellington, pointed to the popularity of the Microsoft platform with a large and participative audience in attendance. Continue reading this entry »

Jul 24

Cool New Features in Office 2010, New Microsoft Developer Tools, A Microsoft Reality Check

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10 Cool Features to Look Forward to in Office 2010 (Tech Republic)
Microsoft kept the details of its next iteration of Office pretty closely guarded up until the release of the Technical Preview in conjunction with the opening of the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) July 13th Now, with the software in the hands of thousands of Microsoft partners, MVPs, and other “selected testers,” the cat is out of the bag. I was told by my MVP lead at Microsoft to blog about it to my heart’s content. Continue reading this entry »

Jul 23

Another Alternative to SharePoint, America Goes Wireless, Is the NSA Moving to the Cloud?

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Integrating SharePoint with Lotus Notes (CIO)
Businesses are investing strategically in collaboration software to improve knowledge workers’ innovation and execution speed. However, many Lotus Notes customers struggle to implement their collaboration strategy because they rely on Microsoft SharePoint (the back end of Office) for team collaboration and document management. Accessing and updating SharePoint document libraries from within Lotus Notes is a cumbersome process that discourages SharePoint adoption and usage. Continue reading this entry »

Jul 22

Microsoft and Open Source, Still No Project 2010 Technical Preview, Ensuring SharePoint Success Workshop Discount

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Office 2010 Security: More of the Same (Search Security)
Microsoft Office is all-but ubiquitous in the corporate world, as is its undoubted status as a major potential security headache. Despite its productivity benefits, its security risks come from two main areas: the seemingly endless series of patches needed to maintain its ever-growing code-base, and the relative ease with which users can use it to leak information and develop their own applications that go against corporate guidelines. While those problems can be mitigated to some extent, they are ongoing concerns for application-level security. Continue reading this entry »

Jul 21

Microsoft Code to be Included in Linux, Google Promises to End Viruses, Microsoft’s Pricing Strategy

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SharePoint Freebies Someone You Might Know Might Want (Windows IT Pro)
Okay, so you might not be interested in these three SharePoint freebies. But maybe you know someone who knows someone who might be interested. Continue reading this entry »

Jul 20

Notebooks Gaining in Corporate Offices, Office 2010 & Windows 7 Shine at WPC, Free Online Office Not So Free?

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Microsoft`s Big Week: Showing Off Office 2010, Windows 7 at Worldwide Partner Conference (eWeek)
Microsoft used its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans to show off its newest products and assume a more aggressive public stance against Apple, Google and other rivals. In addition to the upcoming Windows 7, its new operating system, Microsoft also demonstrated Microsoft Office 2010, Windows Server 2008, Windows Mobile 6.5 and its public cloud-computing platform, Azure. Continue reading this entry »

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