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Jan 29

Five New SP2010 Features; Oracle to Take on Microsoft Office; Could the iPad Give Microsoft Fits?

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SharePoint 2010: Five New and Improved Features (CIO)
Sharepoint, Microsoft’s one-stop “content and collaboration” platform, has been around since 2001. But it didn’t see widespread adoption until SharePoint 2007′s debut and the integration with social software, such as blogs, wikis and social networking Web sites. With SharePoint 2010, due in the first half of this year and available only in 64-bit, one of Microsoft’s main goals is to improve on these social networking tools as well as provide better offline access, easier integration with line-of-business software like CRM and ERP, and improved search. Continue reading this entry »
Jan 28

Is SharePoint 2010 Overkill?; Windows 8 for July 2011?; iPad vs. Kindle vs. HP Slate

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SharePoint 2010 Overkill for Some, Forrester Says (The San Francisco Chronicle)
Despite platform improvements coming in Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 server, the software is likely to be overkill for users seeking to meet isolated and specific requirements, according to a study by Forrester Research. The study, SharePoint Server 2010: An Evolutionary Step toward Content-Centric Middleware, generally gives high marks for the improvements Microsoft has made to the server, which has become one of its fastest selling products of all time. SharePoint 2010 is expected to ship in June. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 27

Free SharePoint 2010 VMs Available; HP Slate: Pictures & Video; Windows Mobile 7 Demo at Mobile World Congress?

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Free Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 VMs Available for Download (Softpedia)
Microsoft has added a new software package to its list of free product offerings designed to streamline the testing process of new technologies for early adopters. Put together by the SharePoint team, the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta) is a set of Virtual Machines focused on Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Although the VMs bring to the table a range of technologies, fact is that the downloads are intended to simplify the evaluation and demonstration of the next iteration of Office and SharePoint. The downloads total no less than 13.5 GB, so customers looking to leverage resources should plan ahead. Continue reading this entry »
Jan 26

Office 2010 Due in March?; Cloud Economics; New: SharePoint Training Course Listing

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Microsoft, Novell Collaborate on LDAP Access to SharePoint (SD Times)
Microsoft and Novell are collaborating on an identity federation solution that will allow LDAP directories to access Microsoft SharePoint. The solution, which will ship in March, adds a service component to Novell’s Access Manager identity management system to federate identities to SharePoint, said Joshua Dorfman, Novell’s senior director of global partner marketing. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 25

Bamboo Solutions Launches Hosted SharePoint-Based Applications; Is Microsoft Office Obsolete?; Windows and Mobile Merge

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Bamboo Solutions Launches New Division to Deliver Hosted SharePoint-Based Applications (Benzinga)
Bamboo Solutions, the leading provider of technologies that enhance Microsoft® SharePoint has announced the creation of a new division focused entirely on the delivery of hosted SharePoint applications.  Expanding upon Bamboo’s leadership as a premier ISV for Microsoft SharePoint, the Bamboo Online Applications Group will lead Bamboo’s efforts to introduce predefined Software as a Service (SaaS) business applications that leverage the SharePoint platform. The organization will mark its formation with Bamboo’s first hosted SharePoint application, Bamboo Requirements Manager (BambooRM). Continue reading this entry »

Jan 22

Box.net Claims Edge Over SharePoint; Silverlight May Solve WinMo Troubles; A ‘Microsoft-free’ Virtual Desktop?

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With Latest Features, Box.net Claims Edge Over SharePoint, Google Docs (Computerworld)
Just as Google Docs makes collaborating on documents via the Web easier than Microsoft Office does, Box.Net enables corporate workers to share documents and other files more easily and beyond firewalls than Microsoft SharePoint. Box.net’s killer feature, along with its “freemium” business model, has enabled the cloud content management startup to serve up more than billion files to 3.5 million users, including those at 50,000 businesses, CEO Aaron Levie said. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 21

Office 2010: What’s in it for You?; Bing Could Become iPhone Default Search Engine; Intuit and Microsoft Partner

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Office 2010: What’s in it for You? (Earth Times)
When Microsoft releases Office 2010 later this year, will it be an upgrade worth pursuing, or will it, like Office 2007, be one that you can easily let pass? That’s a question that’s no doubt on the minds of many existing Office users – as well as more than a few executives at Microsoft. Office 2010 can easily be seen as analogous to Windows 7 in that it represents Microsoft’s latest chance to convince people that they have really been listening to their concerns. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 20

SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform White Paper Released; New Office 2010 Features; Microsoft Patches Hole in IE

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SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White Paper (Microsoft)
What is an application platform? It’s a broad concept that can include a range of interconnected technologies. ASP.NET is a platform for creating Web applications, for example, while at the same time it belongs to the larger application platform provided by the .NET Framework. Because the SharePoint 2010 application platform is based on ASP.NET, learning how to use it isn’t a huge learning curve for ASP.NET developers. But when does it make sense to build an application on SharePoint instead of on raw ASP.NET? The goal of this paper is to answer these questions. Doing this requires describing what the SharePoint 2010 platform provides and looking at the types of applications SharePoint is designed to support. If your application can benefit from the SharePoint framework, building it on SharePoint will enable you to focus more on creating value and less on building infrastructure. Continue reading this entry »
Jan 19

IE Warning Hurts Microsoft in Europe; Microsoft Purges Bing User Data After Six Months; Windows 7 Enterprise Wins

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SharePoint Online Gets Extensible When it Upgrades to SharePoint 2010 (CMS Wire)
A lot of people are waiting for the arrival of SharePoint 2010 (news, site) so they can officially get to work developing sites and applications. But along with a new version you can install and work with locally, the arrival of SharePoint 2010 also means changes for SharePoint Online. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 18

Should You Dump Internet Explorer?; Securing Data in Windows Azure; Windows Mobile 7 Incompatible with Previous Apps?

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Microsoft Seeks Rare Rehearing (Ajax World Magazine)
Having lost one appeal of the i4i patent infringement decision ordering Word off the market at a cost of $290 million in damages, Microsoft last Friday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for a rare en banc review of its Christmas decision. It wants all 11 judges to listen to its complaints, not just the three who found for i4i on December 22. If that doesn’t work, it has threatened to try the Supreme Court, a real long shot. Continue reading this entry »

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