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Feb 09

Windows 7 Does Not Ruin Batteries; Google vs. Microsoft Marketing; Obama Suggests Agencies Use Cloud to Cut Costs

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Microsoft Dropping Linux, Unix From Enterprise Search (InformationWeek)
Microsoft is dropping its Linux and Unix search cores in the Fast Search and Transfer enterprise search products it has been providing since it acquired FAST two years ago. The announcement was made by FAST chief technology officer Bjorn Olstad in his blog. Olstad said FAST’s next wave of products with Windows capability — scheduled for release in a few months — will be the last to include a search core that operates on Linux and Unix. Continue reading this entry »

Feb 08

Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint RC Available; Google to End Support for IE6; Free Office 2010 Upgrade

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Download Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Release Candidate (RC) (Softpedia)
Business customers that have deployed SharePoint Server in their infrastructure and looking for a security solution to protect the product’s libraries can now download and test drive Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Release Candidate. The security solution is designed to safeguard SharePoint libraries from users that attempt to upload or download a variety of potentially malicious content, including documents infected malware, out-policy items, or sensitive data. Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint hit RC at the end of the past week, and is currently available to early adopters. Continue reading this entry »
Feb 05

5 Hot SharePoint 2010 Features; Microsoft’s Innovation Crisis; Free Cloud Computing for Researchers

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SharePoint 2010 – 5 Hot Features to Look Forward To (CMS Wire)
With the release of SharePoint 2010 (news, site) getting closer, people are getting either a) excited, b) nervous or c) all of the above. Whatever your mindset, here are 5 changes coming with SharePoint 2010 which you should take note of. The Business Collaboration Platform for Enterprise and the Web. You have to roll that over your tongue a few times to get a feel for what it could really mean. A one-stop shop, one solution for all needs or key functionality to help you get the job done. Continue reading this entry »
Feb 04

Office 2010 Release Candidate Available; New IE Flaw Uncovered; Microsoft Speaks Cloud Interoperability

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Office 2010 Takes Another Step Forward (ChannelWeb)
Microsoft is now offering the Office 2010 Release Candidate to a portion of its army of software testers, although it doesn’t look like everyone will have access to this particular build. The Office 2010 RC is available to members of Microsoft’s technology adoption program (TAP), a spokesperson said Wednesday in an e-mail. “This is one of Microsoft’s planned milestones in the engineering process; however they do not have plans to make this new code set available broadly,” the spokesperson said. Continue reading this entry »

Feb 03

Bamboo Enters SaaS Market with SharePoint Apps ; Office 2010 Release Candidate; Amazon & Microsoft on Cloud Pricing

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How SharePoint 2010′s Metadata Services Increase Usability (CMS Wire)
It’s no secret that the new managed metadata service in SharePoint 2010 (news, site) will be a welcomed addition to the product. What may not be apparent is exactly how this service will benefit your end-users. It will. Here’s how. With SharePoint 2007, managing your metadata has been more of an operational hazard than a real feature. In an enterprise document management environment with many site collections and content databases, providing a unified set of metadata creates an increased workload for IT that is rarely a top priority. Continue reading this entry »
Feb 02

Microsoft’s Azure is Open for Business; PC Makers to Challenge iPad; Zune Phone Could Appear at MWC

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Implementing a SharePoint Solution (PC Quest)
Most organizations these days have a good network setup that consists of Internet access and a file share where the users dump their work. However, you can really increase a lot of productivity and value to the users and efficiency of the organization by implementing a SharePoint solution in the network. Continue reading this entry »

Feb 01

Seven Social SharePoint Apps; Storage Wars: Azure vs. Google; Microsoft’s Cloud is Hiccuping

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Seven Social SharePoint Apps Built in a Week (NetworkWorld)
Microsoft invited seven startups to a competition aptly named SharePoint 2010 SocialFest. They built SharePoint apps for e-mail, microblogging, document swapping and market research. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 29

Five New SP2010 Features; Oracle to Take on Microsoft Office; Could the iPad Give Microsoft Fits?

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SharePoint 2010: Five New and Improved Features (CIO)
Sharepoint, Microsoft’s one-stop “content and collaboration” platform, has been around since 2001. But it didn’t see widespread adoption until SharePoint 2007′s debut and the integration with social software, such as blogs, wikis and social networking Web sites. With SharePoint 2010, due in the first half of this year and available only in 64-bit, one of Microsoft’s main goals is to improve on these social networking tools as well as provide better offline access, easier integration with line-of-business software like CRM and ERP, and improved search. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 28

Is SharePoint 2010 Overkill?; Windows 8 for July 2011?; iPad vs. Kindle vs. HP Slate

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SharePoint 2010 Overkill for Some, Forrester Says (The San Francisco Chronicle)
Despite platform improvements coming in Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 server, the software is likely to be overkill for users seeking to meet isolated and specific requirements, according to a study by Forrester Research. The study, SharePoint Server 2010: An Evolutionary Step toward Content-Centric Middleware, generally gives high marks for the improvements Microsoft has made to the server, which has become one of its fastest selling products of all time. SharePoint 2010 is expected to ship in June. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 27

Free SharePoint 2010 VMs Available; HP Slate: Pictures & Video; Windows Mobile 7 Demo at Mobile World Congress?

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Free Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 VMs Available for Download (Softpedia)
Microsoft has added a new software package to its list of free product offerings designed to streamline the testing process of new technologies for early adopters. Put together by the SharePoint team, the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta) is a set of Virtual Machines focused on Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Although the VMs bring to the table a range of technologies, fact is that the downloads are intended to simplify the evaluation and demonstration of the next iteration of Office and SharePoint. The downloads total no less than 13.5 GB, so customers looking to leverage resources should plan ahead. Continue reading this entry »

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