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Oct 29

10 Million Downloads for IE9 Beta; Microsoft Q1 Sales Rise to $16 Billion; Gov 2.0′s Social Darwinism

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Microsoft Focuses on Windows Phone, IE 9, Cloud in PDC Keynote (Redmond Channel Partner)
Microsoft kicked off its 2010 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) today by offering developers worldwide an update on its emerging cloud computing, Windows Phone and Internet Explorer 9 development platforms. The two-day event, held at the Redmond campus, is being streamed live via a Silverlight media player that is hosted on Windows Azure to developers. More than 16,000 people viewed the keynote via the live stream. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 28

Microsoft’s Consumer Brand is Dying; Watch the PDC Online; Afraid of Windows 8?

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Microsoft Sends Out Office and SharePoint 2010 SP1 Invites (Neowin)
Microsoft has sent out invitations to lucky participants for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1. For the lucky ones that actually receive an email about the Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 SP1 beta, they will need to complete a survey which will be reviewed before being accepted. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 27

Windows 8 Not in 2012?; Windows Phone Marketplace Is Weak; Feds Want Cloud Email

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Content Management Vendors Need to Work with SharePoint (The Frontline)
Enterprise content management vendors need to find ways of working with SharePoint rather than fight it if they want to succeed, a panel of experts suggested at EMC’s Momentum conference in Lisbon. SharePoint is the ever popular collaboration tool from Microsoft, sometimes branded as a content management product. It is now used by anything from 60 to 70 per cent of organisations, whether IT knows about it or not, according to Ovum analyst Mike Davis. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 26

Ray Ozzie Talks the “Dawn of a New Day”; Cloudy Thinking Complicates Windows 8; Opportunities In Gov 2.0

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Using SharePoint to Enable Information Management within the Enterprise (CMS wire)
Over the last few years, much has been said about SharePoint’s collaboration capabilities. The platform provides a great deal of functionality to help people inside and outside of the enterprise work together. However, what is not discussed as frequently is SharePoint’s ability to help organizations manage content and information at the enterprise level. With the introduction of SharePoint 2010, organizations using SharePoint have an opportunity to take advantage of new and previously released features that assist in enterprise information management. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 25

Is SharePoint 2010 Social Enough?; Windows 8 Beta in 2011; What Is Microsoft?

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Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010: Is It Social Enough? (ZDNet)
Yammer this week said that it will integrate its enterprise social networking suite with Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 collaboration software. And SharePoint 2010 adds a bevy of new social features such as real wikis and improved social computing and content management. The big question revolves around whether SharePoint 2010 is social enough. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 22

First Windows Phone 7 Impressions, Accelerating IE9 Performance; Amazon Offers Free Web Services Pricing

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Amazon Offers Free Entry-level Web Services Pricing. What Will Microsoft Do? (ZDNet)
On October 21, Amazon.com announced a new, free entry-level tier for new Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. Is Microsoft going to retaliate, I wondered. Perhaps. Amazon announced that new users will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 instance for a year, “while also leveraging a new free usage tier for Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS data transfer.” The company is calling the new offering its free usage tier. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 21

NYC Moves to the Cloud, Mixed Reviews for Windows Phone 7; Office 365 is Not Office in the Cloud

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Is SharePoint 2010 the Right Web CMS for Your Internet Site? (CMS Wire)
You may have dismissed SharePoint 2007 as the web content management system for your internet presence, but with the update to SharePoint 2010, and its improvements to web content management, maybe it’s time to reconsider? The growth of SharePoint within organizations is well documented. However many organizations have been apprehensive in adopting SharePoint as a Web Content Management system for their public internet presence due to the difficulty in customizing SharePoint Server 2007 effectively. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 20

Microsoft Pushes Office 365 Into the Cloud; Is Ozzie’s Exit Good or Bad; iPhone 4 vs. Windows Phone 7 vs. Android

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Microsoft Office 365 Tackles the Cloud, Rivals Like Google (PC Magazine)
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Office 365, a solution that integrates Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online in an always up-to-date cloud service. Office 365 is being targeted to Microsoft’s sweet spot market; the SMB. In particular, to small businesses that may not have the resources (or interest) in maintaining on-premise Exchange and SharePoint environments. Microsoft’s banking on the attraction of not having to keep up with mundane, time-sucking tasks like server patching and updating as well as on what its touting as “Agile IT” -24-7 support from engineers in the cloud. Continue reading this entry »
Oct 19

Ray Ozzie Leaving Microsoft; Microsoft Spending $500 Million Marketing Windows Phone 7; Poor IE9 Performance

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Microsoft Searching for Bill Gates v3.0 as Ray Ozzie Leaves the Company (Softpedia)
In an unexpected move, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Ray Ozzie announced that he is leaving the company, just a few days after he had started blogging again by posting an article titled “I’m back.” It appears that not only is Ozzie not back, but he’s out of Microsoft altogether. In an email sent to employees, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer explained that there will be a transition period for Ozzie’s departure from the company. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 18

SharePoint Coming to Blackberry?; The Cloud Is Inevitable; Gov 2.0 Goes Local

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New SharePoint Add-On for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) Coming Soon? (CIO)
Yesterday I posted leaked documentation on the as of yet unannounced BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) software update, and though I highlighted a number of notable features and enhancements in the upcoming release, I skipped over one particularly interesting tidbit: The BES 5.0.3 release notes make multiple mentions of some sort of Microsoft SharePoint “RIM Value Added Application” that will be manageable via the latest BES version. Continue reading this entry »

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