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Best Collaboration Tool: Email (Life Hacker)
Last week we asked you to share your favorite collaboration tool. We then rounded up the five favorites for a vote, and now we’re back with the most popular choice. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint 2010 Lists (Windows IT Pro)
While Santa Claus may be checking his list twice right about now, I spent some time last week building an application based on SharePoint lists on SharePoint 2010. It was a great experience in the new, value-laden functionality of SP2010, and I’d like to share the take-aways with you. Before I do that, I’d also like to ask a question of you, my readers. SharePoint 2010 can be downloaded from Microsoft now, and can be installed, so you can try it out in your enterprise. But I know the reality for some of you might be that you don’t have time or hardware to do so. Continue reading this entry »
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Google Wave’s Massive Potential for Business Users (Mashable)
Google Wave (Google Wave) is an innovative new way for people to communicate and collaborate. But as Gina Tripani, author of The Complete Guide To Google Wave, noted in her recent keynote at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in New York, Wave is designed for power users. Wave is hard. There are a lot of features, all bundled together, and it can be intimidating for anyone to just look at it and decide “this is a great project management tool” or “this is the way we’re going to manage our notes about the proposal.” Continue reading this entry »
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Performance Problems Delay Visual Studio 2010 Release (Info World)
Beset by performance issues, Microsoft has decided to extend the beta testing period for its upcoming Visual Studio 2010 software development platform and will postpone the planned March 22, 2010, launch date by a few weeks, a Microsoft executive said in a blog on Thursday. Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and a beta of the accompanying .Net Framework 4 programming platform both shipped in October. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft Launches SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Support Services Offer (CMS Wire)
Last year, Microsoft launched SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), a service that provides customers of SharePoint Software Assurance extra tools to plan and implement SharePoint effectively in their organization. Continue reading this entry »
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EU Drops Microsoft Browser Charges (AP)
The European Union said Wednesday it is dropping antitrust charges against Microsoft Corp. after the company agreed to give Windows users a choice of up to 12 other Web browsers. Under the terms of the deal with regulators, Microsoft will avoid further EU fines if it provides a pop-up screen that lets European users — from March — replace Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or add another browser such as Mozilla’s Firefox or Google’s Chrome. Continue reading this entry »
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The Grill: Microsoft’s Chris Capossela on Google, Twitter and that Blue Screen of Death (Computer World)
Chris Capossela’s career is a throwback, just like Dom’s, the Italian restaurant in Boston’s North End his parents ran for 45 years. Capossela has been at Microsoft ever since graduating 18 years ago, working his way up from being Bill Gates’ speechwriter to head of the Microsoft Project business, to his current role running marketing for some of Microsoft’s most lucrative products: Office, SharePoint, Exchange, as well as their new hosted equivalents. He talked to Computerworld about how his family background prepared him for Microsoft, how Microsoft plans to beat Google Apps, and how it is adding Twitter-like features to Office. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft’s 4 Challenges in 2010 (PC World)
When you’re a technology mongrel like Microsoft, challenges are constant — and 2009 was chock full of them. It was a tumultuous year that saw the software giant’s first widespread layoffs and its worst quarterly revenue earnings ever. Continue reading this entry »
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Microsoft SharePoint: Still Underappreciated by Feds? (Oh My Gov!)
As the federal government becomes more transparent and the business value of social software is embraced by federal leaders, we wanted to take an opportunity to delve deeper into one of the more prolific information technology market providers (and incidentally, the backbone of Recovery.gov): Microsoft. Continue reading this entry »
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SharePoint and Social Networking With a Purpose: Next Steps (SharePointPro Connections)
Two weeks ago, I began a discussion of enterprise social networking and SharePoint. I referred to social networking as a tsunami. Carrying forward the “wave” metaphor, I woke up this morning to learn that there are forecasts for epic waves at Jaws, one of the world’s top tow-in surf breaks, which is walking distance from my home. Knowing that makes it difficult for me to focus on SharePoint as I write this week’s column—I can hear the waves, the jet skis, and the excited spectators! Coincidentally, focus is a theme of this week’s continuation of the social networking discussion. This week, we raise the question, “Why do you want to implement social networking?” You must know the answer to succeed. Continue reading this entry »
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