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The Road to Microsoft Office 365: The Past (ZDNet)
I’m kicking off today a three-part series about Microsoft’s Office 365, the company’s software-as-a-service offering. When Microsoft announced its plans for Office 365 in October of this year, few were cognizant of the five-plus years of groundwork that preceded the launch of its hosted-application platform. Few also seemed to understand why and how Microsoft is attempting to coalesce its varied hosted app offerings under a single brand and infrastructure. I’m hoping with this series to explain the past, present and future of one of the most important elements of Microsoft’s cloud strategy. Continue reading this entry »
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For November, 2010
Nov 30
The Road to Office 365; Windows Phone 7 Struggling?; R&D Culture at Microsoft, HP and IBM
By Chris DooleyNo CommentsNov 29
Is SharePoint 2010 Right For Small Business?; Office 365 Shows Promise; Windows Phone 7 Jailbroken
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Is Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Right For SMBs? (InformationWeek)
Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are downloading, trying, and adopting Microsoft’s SharePoint technology, the core bits of which are included as part of Microsoft Windows Small Business Server. But is SharePoint really designed for SMBs? A spokesman from Microsoft admitted that SharePoint adoption is higher among larger organizations than for SMBs. “Today, we’re probably skewed toward the enterprise,” says Richard Riley, group product manager on Microsoft’s SharePoint team. Continue reading this entry »
Nov 24
Office 365 Preview; New IE9 Beta Leaks; Americans Can’t Stop Checking E-Mail
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Microsoft Lync Could Enhance SharePoint 2010 (Fierce Content Management)
Microsoft recently released Lync, its new unified communications server, which was formerly known as Office Communications Server. The new release attempts to bring all kinds of communications under a single umbrella including social information like location, activity stream, and a contact card with picture. While all of this is interesting from a broad enterprise communications level, it also has implications for SharePoint users. In a recent blog post, on the Microsoft SharePoint Team blog, SharePoint GM Eric Swift outlined some of the advantages of using Lync with SharePoint. Continue reading this entry »
Nov 23
Microsoft vs. Google in the Cloud; Is the Mobile OS War Over?; Lync Killing the PBX?
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Microsoft and Google Launch New Assaults on the Cloud (InfoWorld)
Not since the early ’90s, when IBM fought its last stand against Microsoft for the desktop, have we seen anything like the epic battle between Microsoft and Google for the cloud. On Friday we witnessed this conflict in microcosm at InfoWorld’s offices. Microsoft representatives stopped by in the morning to demo an early beta version of Office 365, the company’s bundle of Office Professional Plus 2010 with cloud-based versions of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync. That afternoon, Google representatives popped in to demo Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, a free add-on that allows existing versions of Microsoft Office (2003 and up) to sync Office documents with Google Docs and engage in simultaneous group editing. Continue reading this entry »
Nov 22
IE9 Benchmarks Explained; Lync Hype vs. Expectations; Windows Turns 25
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Does Microsoft’s Lync Hype Match Customer Desires? (NetworkWorld)
Customers eying Microsoft’s Lync 2010 unified communications server need to take a step back and evaluate what’s really new and whether they need it right now, down the road or not at all, experts say. On the one hand, the company offers multi-modal communications that are well integrated with its extremely popular business and collaboration products Office, SharePoint and Exchange — a combination that could lead to more efficient ways of transacting business. Continue reading this entry »
Nov 19
SharePoint Private Cloud; 13 Million IE9 Beta Downloads; Microsoft & Apple on Vehicle Media
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SharePoint Private Cloud – Socializing Enterprise Applications (Sys-con)
The reason I think the Cloud market will experience such a huge boom is that it will be accompanied by other equally powerful IT trends. Indeed they will magnify the benefit of one another, and these overlaps are the ideal sweet spots to provide the context and opportunity for new start-ups. The overlap between Cloud Computing and an Enterprise 2.0 strategy of ‘socializing enterprise apps’ is this type of focus for our ‘LiveWIRE’ Cloud Venture, a new toolset that overlays across Microsoft SharePoint and offers the secret sauce potential to dramatically increase sales of hosted SharePoint offerings. Continue reading this entry »
Nov 18
IE9 Benchmark Tests; Should Microsoft Split Up?; FCC Chief on Net Neutrality
By Chris Dooley1 CommentTop News Stories
Five Tips for SAP/SharePoint Integration Planning (SearchSAP)
By the end of the year, SAP plans to release Duet Enterprise, a product that will enable users to view information from the SAP back end in the SharePoint interface. In this column, Excellis Interactive’s Pete Lagana details his advice for deciding whether to keep NetWeaver Portal over SharePoint and for enabling SharePoint/SAP integration now. Continue reading this entry »
Nov 17
Users Still Don’t Get SharePoint; IE9 Slower than IE8?; An Interview with Steve Ballmer
By Chris DooleyNo CommentsTop News Stories
InfoPath: An Important Skill to Have (SD Times)
In the enterprise version of SharePoint 2010, InfoPath is absolutely everywhere. What is InfoPath? It is a form application that has been a part of the Microsoft Office suite of applications ever since Office 2003. InfoPath is great because it gives business users a quick way of putting together a form that needs to be filled out by people in the organization, and there is no code required to create these forms. When Office 2007 came around, browser-based forms were introduced, which widened the audience of people who could fill out InfoPath forms, because the client software was no longer required. Continue reading this entry »
Nov 16
Windows 8 as a Service; What You Need to Know About Lync; Private Cloud Discredited
By Chris DooleyNo CommentsTop News Stories
Microsoft Lync: What You Need to Know (NetworkWorld)
Microsoft this week will launch Lync, the latest version of its unified communications and collaboration platform that, like competitive products, promises to change the way businesses do business by integrating a range of existing communications and collaboration technologies. Here are some questions and answers about this much anticipated release. Continue reading this entry »
Nov 15
Replace SharePoint with WordPress?; Kin Returns to Verizon; Has Windows Had Its Day?
By Chris DooleyNo CommentsTop News Stories
How to Save Money by Replacing Microsoft SharePoint with WordPress (CTO Edge)
According to the Small Business Administration, small businesses account for 99.7 percent of all U.S. businesses and employ about half of all private sector employees. This makes sense, since the definition of a “small” business is pretty big: “an independent business having fewer than 500 employees.” Have you ever been in a crowd of 500 people? Living in NYC all my life, I have, and I can tell you it’s pretty nerve wracking at times (think crammed train during rush hour). Continue reading this entry »
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