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Jun 26

Microsoft Confirms Yammer Purchase; Is Windows 8 Ready?; What’s Wrong with Windows Phone?

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Microsoft Confirms $1.2 Billion Yammer Buy (InformationWeek)
Rumored for more than a week, Microsoft’s plan to acquire Yammer became official Monday. Early business news reports turned out to have just about everything right, down to the $1.2 billion price. Microsoft did confirm that Yammer will be integrated into the Microsoft Office division, making it part of the same product family as SharePoint, which was one detail that hadn’t been clear previously. Some analysts thought it would be more likely to be positioned as an adjunct to Microsoft Dynamics CRM, as a counter to Salesforce.com’s Chatter service, which is similar to Yammer. Instead, Yammer is to be integrated with SharePoint, Dynamics, and other products but will also have a life of its own. Continue reading this entry »
Nov 29

Avoiding SharePoint Pitfalls; Cloud Computing is Misunderstood; Windows Becomes Portable

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5 SharePoint Pitfalls To Avoid (InformationWeek)
Microsoft SharePoint is a widely used platform for document sharing that can be an important element of a unified communications platform. But it is also technology that many people love to hate. News reports and online forums have detailed problems users have had with storage management, Active Directory, configuration, governance, and other issues within their SharePoint environments. One Microsoft partner, Azaleos, has shared advice on how to head off some of the thorniest problems before they become disasters. Continue reading this entry »

Jun 27

IBM: SharePoint 2010 Not Ready for Social Business; What Office 365 Means for Us; Firefox Meets Corporate Backlash

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Improving SharePoint Performance Across the WAN (Data Center Journal)
Remote users and branch offices have come to rely on Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 for collaboration and document management. Performance and connectivity issues have put those outside corporate headquarters at a disadvantage, however. Can those issues be resolved quickly and easily? Continue reading this entry »

Nov 09

WP7 a ‘Fresh Start for the Smartphone’; Microsoft’s Cloud Message Goes Mainstream; Windows 8 Web Apps?

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Microsoft Hails ‘Fresh Start for the Smartphone’ (IT Web)
Microsoft’s back in the mobile market with a bang. The company today launched its much-anticipated Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system in South Africa, hailing it as a “fresh start for the smartphone” and promising a new user experience that will shake up the marketplace. The new phone is critical to Microsoft’s efforts to make new gains in the huge smartphone market, which despite the success of the iPhone and Android, is still relatively untapped globally. It also represents a new approach towards integrating products and services from across the company into the phone to create a richer experience and greater productivity, says Nazeer Suliman, the consumer and online lead for Microsoft South Africa. Continue reading this entry »
Sep 17

No Windows Phone 7 on Verizon Until 2011; SharePoint in the Cloud; Federal CTO on Open Government

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Talking About SharePoint in the Cloud (WindowsITPro)
Today I am supposed to be writing my SharePoint List for the November issue of SharePointPro Connections magazine. It’s going to be about SharePoint in the cloud. I thought I’d putter around first and play with the shiny bits of advice and opinion I’ve gathered before hammering everything into a polished Box O’ Content. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 30

Best Practices Conference: Day 4; Which Country Has the Safest Web Access?; IE9 Navigation on Steroids

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Using Windows PowerShell to Manage SharePoint 2010 (WindowsITPro)
The release of SharePoint 2010 (both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server) offers welcome support for Windows PowerShell. Of course it has always been technically possible to use PowerShell to manage SharePoint but that involved doing a lot of work yourself to call the .NET Framework and work directly with the SharePoint Object Model or Web Services. But now it’s official, and administrators get to use the power of PowerShell out of the box. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 17

Customers Don’t Get Cloud Computing; IE at a Crossroads; July Search: Yahoo Up, Google Down

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Central Desktop Aims to Undercut SharePoint (Small Business Computing)
Have you wanted the collaboration and content management features in the cloud that Microsoft’s SharePoint Server provides but don’t have a big company budget? Central Desktop says it has a solution for that. The company’s newest product — called Central Desktop for Office and available Monday — aims to provide much of the functionality of Microsoft SharePoint without the cost or the maintenance overhead. 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 »
May 28

Ballmer Claims Google is Confused; Pitfalls of Office 2010 Migration; 30 Million Windows Phone 7 Devices to Sell in 2011

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Enterprise 2.0 Roll-up: Google Urges You to Leave Microsoft, SharePoint Fights Back (CMS Wire)
Well, well, well. This week saw more head-to-head competition from — surprise, surprise — Microsoft and Google. Google kicked out yet another tool specifically designed to bring MS users over to the G side, while SharePoint 2010 made a promise to revolutionize your organization. Continue reading this entry »

Apr 12

Is Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy that Special?; Microsoft’s Pink Destined to Fail?; Has Steve Jobs Gone Mad?

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Microsoft Web Apps Will Force Google’s Hand (InformationWeek)
With Microsoft’s 2010 portfolio of Office products coming out shortly, Google is under the gun. It has to figure out how to head off Microsoft before the company closes the gap on browser-based applications (which it fully intends to do). Google’s battle cry for much of the last year was, “The Web has won.” Yet it was a premature declaration of victory. Web applications still don’t get the respect accorded to their desktop counterparts. Continue reading this entry »

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