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- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most
- One of the most disheartening things that can happen in any job is when the boss that inspired you, the one you loved to learn from and who made a grueling job more bearable leaves the building. It may be no different at Microsoft this week, as the "geeks" or...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Sales, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- NY commits to open formats as MSFT supports ODF
- New York's CIO, Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart left, submitted a report to the governor and legislature, embracing open document formats but steering clear of picking favorites. Open document formats are a necessity since NY law requires the state to "conduct its business in an open, interoperable and transparent manner."...
- Tags: New York, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, MSFT, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
- Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking
- The politicking is almost over. At midnight Central European Time on Saturday March 29, voting regarding whether Microsoft's Open Office XML OOXML document format will get ISO standards approval will close. For the past month -- ever since the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting BRM in Geneva ended...
- Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Standardization, Politicking, Iso standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Windows Mobile to come to Mobile Internet Devices
- Microsoft has brought on a new hire -- a former founding member of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates -- to help the Redmond software company port the Windows Mobile operating system to new form factors. Len Kawell, whose title is "Distinguished Engineer in the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Ultramobile PC, Microsoft Corp., Internet Device, Mobile Internet Device, Kawell, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push
- Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML pushHmmmmInteresting load of bunk.Funny, they could not even give one example of something in a legacydocument that cannot be translated to ODF. Nor could they give even one example of something required for MS Office that can not be supported by ODF.Statements like this show they...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXML
- Market researchers with the Burton Group have issued a 37-page study-- not commissioned by Microsoft or any other tech vendor -- that finds Microsoft's OOXML document format to be more useful than the rival ODF format backed by Microsoft's competitors. The new study, freely downloadble (in exchange...
- Tags: Burton Group, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Are all 'open' Web platforms created equal?
- There's been a lot of talk lately about various Web platform vendors opening up their programming interfaces in order to make their offerings more readily customizable and programmable. Facebook has opened up its social-networking platform to developers. Google is poised to open its Orkut social-networking application programming...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Facebook, Platform, API, Microsoft Windows Live, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., MySpace, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Microsoft brands its managed services with the 'Office Online' name
- A year ago, Microsoft's head of Office Live told me that Microsoft planned to extend the Office Live both up and down market. On October 1, Microsoft finally explained how it plans to do this. Earlier this summer, Microsoft officials said that they were rebranding the existing...
- Tags: ThinkFree Office Online, Managed Services, Brand, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-30
- What will Microsoft's loss in Europe mean to customers?
- Word is out: Microsoft has lost its appeal of the European Commission's antitrust decision. So now what? There's no word yet if Microsoft will appeal again, which it has two months to decide whether or not to do. If it doesn't, the company will be forced to...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Exchange Server Rollup 3: An IMAP fix for the iPhone?
- Microsoft rolled out on June 28 the third rollup of fixes for Exchange Server 2007, a product introduced in December 2006.According to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article on Rollup 3, Microsoft has fixed a number of Exchange issues, including: The addition of an integer to the end of the legacyExchangeDN attribute...
- Tags: Telecommunications, Exchange Server, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- RSS: The new intranet protocol?
- In a story he headlined Web 2.0 sews grassroots collaboration, CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica wrote:Like others, Seely Brown expects to see a wide range of techniques common on consumer Web applications--including blogs, collaborative Web page editing through wikis, tagging and RSS Really Simple Syndication-based subscriptions--to bleed into mainstream business applications....new...
- Tags: collaboration
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- Corporate America wakes up to Web 2.0
- Corporate America wakes up to Web 2.0Overrated, overhyped...Big deal. Wikis. Blogs. Both fairly simple *applications*...not *technologies*. Get a clue people. Nothing earth-shattering here. Bubble 2.0? Yes.Calling on Mike Cox ..."Microsoft, too, is eyeing light-weight collaboration techniques. The company is using a wiki system...
- Tags: Channel management, Web 2.0, Web, behavioral model, Wiki
- Discussion threads 2006-06-26
- Information Week: Credibility Of Analysts
- An interesting subject that has been discussedhere in the past. Information Week talks to the "big guns"of the analyst world: IDC, Gartner, Forrester. There is a smatteringof discussion about boutique analyst firms, but there are so many thatit would be tough ground to...
- Tags: Blogging, Information Week, blog
- Blog posts 2006-02-09
- The Dog told me
- I wrote this a few weeks ago before a trip to New York. While getting in and out of cabs or walking down the street, I lost or was relieved of my EVDO card, plunging me back into the darkness that preceded it. I sent this post, along with several...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, EVDO
- Blog posts 2006-02-05
- Collaboration Loop: Lotusphere 2006 Impressions: The Future of Notes is...Notes
- Burton Group's Peter O'Kelly is writinga five-part series on Collaboration Loop about Lotusphere 2006...WithLotusphere 2006, IBM made it resoundingly clear that the future of Notesis indeed Notes. The Hannover version of Notes, expected during 2007(after wide beta testing in 2006) will have complete application...
- Tags: IBM Lotus Notes
- Blog posts 2006-02-02
- Where´s his TabletPC?
- (Source:SeattleTimes, via PeterO'Kelly) Just curious why Mr. Gates is carrying a sheaf of paper instead of a Tablet.. Also, McDonald's? Really? At least that breakfast of champions kept his mind in shape:Askedif Google represents the most formidable threat of the company's 30-yearhistory, Gates replied with...
- Tags: Gate, IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-01-05
- eWeek: Exchange 12 has competitors, execs insist
- Reaction among some competitors to Exchange12 beta 1 announcement...TimBray, a Sun Web technologistand the co-inventor of XML, told eWEEK that while some of Microsoft's softwarewas excellent, "I cannot say that Exchange falls into that category,"whether from a technical engineering or feature-set perspective.whoa.;) Several comments about...
- Tags: Exchange
- Blog posts 2005-12-20
- ComputerWorld: IBM Workplace Client to Support Open Document Format in ´06
- IBM officially announced support for OpenDocument Format in Workplace Managed Client 2.6....Inan announcement Sunday in India, IBM said it will add ODF support to theclient software to give customers more flexibility, since the standardallows files to be compatible with any office productivity suite or otherapplications...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2005-12-07
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