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For June, 2010

Jun 30

Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010; Windows Phone 7 in Trouble?; Real Security in a Virtual World

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Is SharePoint 2010 a Compliant Records Solution? (IDM)
Microsoft SharePoint has changed the game on traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendors. Whilst this might now be old news for many in the ECM industry, what may be more surprising is just how many organisations are already using SharePoint 2007 for records management purposes and the huge number of organisations who have expressed their intention to use SharePoint 2010. This is in spite of a considerable section of the Records Management industry expressing concerns that SharePoint 2007 is not compliant with ISO 15489. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 29

Windows 8 Details Leaked; Microsoft Badmouths Google; Why We Love to Hate Microsoft

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SharePoint 2010: Four Big-Name Social Networking Rivals (NetworkWorld)
Microsoft became decidedly more social with SharePoint 2010, adding social networking tools like improved wiki and blog integration, tagging and microblogging into its SharePoint MySites feature. As the social Web extends beyond Twitter and Facebook and into businesses, many enterprise-level companies are changing their cultures and focusing on improving communication, sharing information and connecting global workforces through social media. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 28

Who is Pushing the Private Cloud?; IE9 Preview Supports HTML 5; Windows Phone 7 in October?

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SharePoint Causing Info Management Problems, Says Analyst (Computing)
Firms are losing business-critical information contained in Microsoft SharePoint sites, according to research firm Ovum’s research director Tim Jennings. Jennings said two customer surveys of European IT decision-makers showed that firms were deploying SharePoint for business collaboration without any forethought about information governance around the technology. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 25

Windows 7 and Office 2010 Driving Tech Refresh; Where Is Cloud Computing Headed?; Apple Co-founder Left for $800

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SharePoint Is the New Access (Redmond Developer News)
Microsoft offers no shortage of options for developing so-called “forms over data” applications. Whether using data-binding technologies in the Microsoft .NET Framework, the Data Sources Window and its drag-and-drop capabilities in Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight, or ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Microsoft has got you covered. Really, the scenario of building data-focused screens and applications has been one that Microsoft has assisted us with since the dawn of Access version 1.0. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 24

PerformancePoint Services in SP2010; IE9 Platform Preview; Private Cloud Best Practices

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PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint 2010 (SQL Server Magazine)
There used to be a product called Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager. It had some compelling monitoring and analytic capabilities. As a successor to that product, Microsoft released a product called Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server in November 2007. PerformancePoint Server 2007 included monitoring and analytic features, such as dashboards, scorecards, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), reports, filters, and strategy maps, which are delivered via a monitoring server. There were primarily two client user interfaces to the monitoring server, namely the Dashboard Designer and various SharePoint Web Parts. The Dashboard Designer was a thick client application downloaded from the monitoring server, which allowed power users to do the following: Continue reading this entry »
Jun 23

Steve Ballmer is a God; Why Google Won’t Beat Microsoft in Cloud Collaboration; Adobe Brings Flash to Mobiles

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Cloud Computing: 10 Reasons Why Google Won’t Beat Microsoft in Cloud Collaboration (eWeek)
The worldwide launch of Microsoft Office 2010 June 15, with the complementary Office Web Apps, rekindled the discussion of whether Microsoft would be a successful challenger to Google in the software market for cloud collaboration applications. Google has racked up more than 30 million Google Apps users, a chunk of which are using it in 2 million businesses, with an even smaller portion paying $50 per user, per year. While Google’s momentum remains strong for Apps, some cracks in the armor have shown themselves of late. Here are 10 reasons why Google won’t beat Microsoft in collaboration. Continue reading this entry »
Jun 22

SharePoint Integrates Social Computing Tools; Smartphones in Your Business; Cloud Computing Jumps the Shark

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MS SharePoint: Social Computing Tools to Integrate (CMSWire)
It’s been noted that SharePoint 2010′s improvements in the area of social computing are relatively impressive, but built-in features have a tendency to be outshone by third-party solutions. Ergo, we thought we’d round up a few of our favorites: Continue reading this entry »

Jun 21

Patch Causes SharePoint Woes; Office 2010: A Cry for Help?; I Have Lost Confidence in Steve Ballmer

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June ‘Black Tuesday’ Patch Causes SharePoint Woes (InfoWorld)
Microsoft hasn’t yet officially acknowledged the problem, but many admins are reporting that installing this month’s “Black Tuesday” SharePoint patch, MS10-039 / KB 2028544 / KB 983444, causes their Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 machines to lock up. The problem typically manifests itself when IIS users trying to access a SharePoint page get the error message “Cannot connect to the configuration database.” Admins may get the message “Unable to connect to the configuration database.” Continue reading this entry »

Jun 17

SharePoint Still Clunky for IT; Microsoft Office Web Apps Dismal; Microsoft Can Do Very Well in Mobile

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SharePoint is a Hit for Microsoft but Still Clunky for IT (SearchWinIT)
For Microsoft, SharePoint has by many estimates been a runaway success, but for many IT pros and business users here this week, the enterprise collaboration software is no game changer. In fact, in some cases it can be an expensive boondoggle. Everyone agrees that SharePoint is here to stay. Some IT experts say it’s quickly becoming the de facto collaboration platform not just in Windows shops but also at companies that may not traditionally consider Microsoft platforms — say, those with a large population of Unix and Linux machines. Continue reading this entry »
Jun 16

Office 2010 is in Stores; Security Guidelines for Windows Azure; Windows Phone 7 Sacrifices Business Features

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Office 2010 is in the Stores. Yawn. (ComputerWorld)
Am I the only who finds Forrester analyst JP Gowdner’s blog proclamation that “Office 2010, Microsoft’s latest release, will continue to succeed with consumers” and “In terms of usage and penetration, Google Docs remains a failure” on the eve of Office 2010′s arrival to retails stores be a little… suspicious? Could it have anything to do with Microsoft’s just launched $80 million Office 2010 ad campaign? Gowdner, who covers the consumer market and not the business market, maintains that Microsoft Office 2010 is going to stay on top because:”The browser-based experience remains limited;” “Consumers have a deep, longstanding relationship with Office; and “Local computing power is plentiful and cheap.” Continue reading this entry »

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