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More Evolution Than Revolution on Display at PDC (Tech News World)
Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference earlier this month had its share of big stories, but none that really shook the world and turned it on its head — and sometimes that’s just fine. Azure and scaling up services got a lot of attention at PDC, as did Office Web Apps and the various kernel improvements made to Windows 7. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft Focuses BI Strategy on SQL Server, SharePoint, Excel (TechTarget)
Microsoft’s BI strategy is shifting, with some business intelligence functionality falling by the wayside and new features and products making an appearance under the vendor’s SQL Server 2008 R2 umbrella. The ProClarity technology Microsoft acquired in 2006 as a BI interface for SQL Server, SharePoint and Office has been dropped in favor of the interfaces users know: Excel and SharePoint. The scorecard and dashboard capabilities in PerformancePoint Server will be embedded in the next version of SharePoint. PerformancePoint Server’s financial planning and budgeting capabilities, however, have been cut from the BI product line. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint 2010 and the Social-Networking Tsunami (Windows IT Pro)
SharePoint 2010 introduces “ready for prime time” social networking for the enterprise, with a rich feature set around social content, activity feeds, social and people search, and more. At the recent SharePoint Connections event, I hosted a (social model) discussion with several dozen IT Pros from a diverse range of enterprises. The goal of the discussion was to identify big wins and best practices for social networking in the enterprise. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft, News Corp. In Early Talks on Web Deal (The Wall Street Journal)
News Corp. has held discussions with Microsoft Corp. about a partnership that could result in News Corp. removing its newspaper content from Google Inc.’s search engine while continuing to feature it on Microsoft’s online properties, according to people familiar with the matter. The talks are still at a very early stage and may not result in a deal, according to these people. Among the most thorny issues, one of these people said, are the terms under which Microsoft would compensate News Corp., if at all, to feature its news content, which ranges from The Wall Street Journal to the Sun of the U.K. Continue reading this entry »
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Amazing and Hopeful Day 2 of Microsoft PDC09 (Examiner.com)
There is plenty to report on day two of the PDC09 conference in Los Angeles. Wednesday’s lineup started with a nice experiential reference to a developer’s Publisher download in a hotel room that took 7 hours, then failed to load. Nervous laughter followed, and much explanation about why those issues are important for developers to address in their upcoming applications development. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint Muscles Into Records Management Systems (Search CIO)
Forthcoming data from Forrester Research Inc. indicates that Microsoft’s blockbuster SharePoint platform is making inroads into records management systems, a subset of enterprise content management (ECM). “Microsoft has blown the doors off the traditional ECM vendors from a content management perspective,” said Forrester analyst Brian W. Hill, survey author and ECM expert at the Cambridge, Mass.-based research house. “What surprised me is that organizations are also using SharePoint for records management purposes.” Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft Releases Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 Betas (Redmond Mag)
Microsoft on Monday released betas of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 to its MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The new Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 betas can be downloaded using links at this Microsoft blog. As for the general public, they just have to wait. “Office 2010 has not yet officially released for the public and we have no further information to share at this time,” a Microsoft spokesperson stated via e-mail. Presumably, SharePoint 2010 is also unavailable to the public. Continue reading this entry »
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Why Developers Like SharePoint 2010 (InfoWorld)
SharePoint 2010, the newly announced upgrade to Microsoft’s popular Web and collaboration platform, is receiving a thumbs-up from developers pleased with the product’s capabilities, including its use of Visual Studio as a tool for building SharePoint applications. A feature-completed version of SharePoint 2010 was detailed by Microsoft late last month. Continue reading this entry »
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FAST Search for SharePoint Promises Custom Search Without Custom Code (ZDNet)
Microsoft is trying to marry SharePoint admin with FAST’s search expertise for manageable search. At the SharePoint conference last month we got more details about the new Fast Search for SharePoint offerings – the first integration of the industry-leading search technology it gained with last year’s acquisition of FAST. Continue reading this entry »
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