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The Real Story Behind Microsoft’s $20 Billion Quarter (InfoWorld)
If you listen to the financial analysts, all is well in Redmond. Microsoft has released another sunny quarterly earnings report, with $6.63 billion in net income, which beats Apple’s analogous quarter by about 10 percent (although it’s worth noting Microsoft is running about 0.5 percent behind the same quarter last year). The biggest increase came from the Entertainment & Devices Division, driven almost exclusively by the Kinect and its pull-along Xbox effect, yielding an operating income profit of $0.68 billion for the quarter, up 86 percent from the same quarter last year. Windows Phone 7, widely regarded as a misfire, was not broken out separately. Continue reading this entry »
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For January, 2011
Microsoft’s Cloud Revenue Uncertain; Tablets May Be Temporary; Overhyped Tech Trends
By Chris DooleyNo CommentsOffice Helps Microsoft Earnings; Is WP7 Dead?; Companies Average $6,300 on Cloud Computing
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Business Connectivity Services Quick Dive: How to Surface Business Data in Outlook (SharePoint Pro Connections)
Suppose your users want to be able to view and change data from a line of business (LOB) application in a program that they find most comfortable: Microsoft Outlook. With SharePoint 2010’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS), it’s possible to do just that. With BCS, you can directly expose a LOB application’s data through entities called External Content Types (ECTs). You can also have the ECTs write data back to the LOB application. Continue reading this entry »
SharePoint 2010 Adoption Rates; Google CEO Shakeup Good for Microsoft; I Still Love Windows Phone
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Oracle Makes a Fresh Run at SharePoint (PCWorld)
Oracle is hoping to make new inroads against the likes of Microsoft SharePoint with WebCenter Suite 11g, which was announced Tuesday. The company has pulled together a superset of capabilities from its various portal products for the new product, said Andy MacMillan, vice president of product management. The release traces back to Oracle’s “continue and converge” plan laid out in 2008 when it purchased BEA, which had a number of portal assets, MacMillan said. Oracle always intended to “bring together the best of the best … into a single unified use case,” while continuing to develop the portal products independently, he said. Continue reading this entry »
Microsoft Cloud Dominance; Microsoft Tablet Strategy; Is HTML5 Dead Already?
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Firefox Do-Not-Track Feature Has a Fatal Flaw (PCWorld)
Mozilla is working on a new privacy feature for its Firefox browser that will enable users to opt out of online tracking by enabling a do-not-track setting in the HTTP header. The approach is better than nothing, and arguably better than rival do-not-track proposals, but still has a fatal flaw–it relies on the tracking Web sites to play nice. The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recognized that tracking is a privacy concern for Web-surfing citizens, and it has proposed implementation of some sort of do-not-track framework similar to the do-not-call lists that are supposed to keep annoying telemarketers from calling you. Continue reading this entry »
The Future of Google Enterprise; Three Months of WP7; Is the Web Dead?
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Steve Mann Talks SharePoint 2010 and InfoPath (InformIT)
Steve Mann, author of InfoPath with SharePoint 2010 How-To, and InformIT Senior Editor Dustin Sullivan discuss SharePoint 2010′s integration with Visual Studio and InfoPath 2010, including the features these developments bring to the table and the skills that administrators and developers will need to leverage them. Continue reading this entry »
Microsoft Releases Attack Surface Analyzer; WP7 Phantom Data Use Solved; Windows 8 Follows Apple’s Lead
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s Gutsy Moves Deserve Credit (InfoWorld)
Maybe Steve Ballmer finally got the message that Microsoft is drifting toward irrelevance. Monday’s announcement that his company is going after Salesforce.com with an aggressively priced online version of Dynamics CRM was welcome news. It follows on the heels of a series of gutsy decisions he’s spearheaded lately: Continue reading this entry »
Resolutions for SharePoint Success; Windows 8 on Phones; Is SaaS Office Safe?
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7 Pregame Questions Executives Must Ask to Win at SharePoint (SharePoint Magazine)
You have seen charts and graphs that assure you SharePoint will score a big win for your organization, but how can you be sure? After all, in addition to case studies that point to successful rollouts, you’ve also heard of the numerous SharePoint implementation failures. SharePoint can change the way you do business by increasing productivity, streamlining processes, and increasing collaboration, but if not properly implemented, a failed SharePoint rollout can become a costly mistake. Continue reading this entry »
BI Themes for 2011; WP7: A Great Product With No Users; Dynamics CRM Online Launches
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Creating a SharePoint Form with InfoPath Designer (InformIT)
This chapter shows you how to generate an InfoPath form for use in SharePoint, including how to add controls, preview your form, add submit options, publish your form, use your form in SharePoint, and more. Continue reading this entry »
WP7 Launch Underwhelming; Tablet Reality Check; Cyber War Risks Over-hyped
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Setting Up a SharePoint Developer Virtual Machine (Channel 9)
It’s easy to get started with SharePoint 2010 development using the Information Worker Virtual Machine (VM). In this episode, you will learn all of the tips and tricks to get the VM up and running. The Information Worker virtual machine is a Hyper-V based VHD file that has everything you need to build SharePoint solutions already installed. The VM includes Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010, Exchange 2010, and more. In fact, this is the VM that we use for all of the SharePoint and Office training and Hands-On Labs on Channel 9. Continue reading this entry »
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BlackBerry Plans Include SharePoint; Google Management Changes; What Windows On ARM Means for You
By Chris DooleyNo CommentsRIM’s BlackBerry Agenda: SharePoint and Deeper Enterprise Integration (NetworkWorld)
In an enterprise-oriented road map for its BlackBerry smartphone platform, RIM (Research in Motion) is planning a BlackBerry client for Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration platform as well as middleware capabilities for enterprise application integration and cloud-based mobile device management. Continue reading this entry »