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- Office 2007
- The latest version of Microsoft's Office suite, introduced in early 2007. The user interface in each application features an expanded toolbar called the Ribbon. The Ribbon differs from...
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- SoftGrid app-virtualization: Another way to offer software as a service
- MDOP, the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, is the fastest-selling-ever Volume Licensing product from Microsoft, according to the company. Since Microsoft introduced MDOP six months ago, customers have bought 2 million licenses for MDOP.MDOP consists of a number of different tools and technologies, all of which are developed by Microsoft's System...
- Tags: Virtualization, System Center, Office 2007, Office, Google, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Microsoft to launch Office Communications Server 2007 this fall
- Microsoft will launch the latest versions of its unified communications products -- Office Communications Server OCS 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 client -- sometime this fall.Microsoft is on track to release to manufacturing the two OCS products on Friday, July 27, according to Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes.Raikes, who...
- Tags: Web conferencing, VOIP, Telecommunications, System builders, Speech, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Office 2007, Office, OEMs
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Drawing more Microsoft roadmaps
- Now that Microsoft has provided an official ship target for Windows 7, the next major version of Windows client, it's time for some educated guess work.Windows 7 is the only piece of the Windows client roadmap for which Microsoft is willing to provide a date right now. Here's what I'd...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Windows Midmarket Server, Windows client, Windows 7, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Fiji, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Update: Whatever happened with that ActiveSync-iPhone deal?
- I've gotten a couple of reader queries asking about the status of the Apple-Microsoft deal via which Apple allegedly licensed Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol for the iphone. Apple still hasn't announced anything other than IMAP for Exchange synchronization, so what gives, they ask.Good question. All I can tell you is I...
- Tags: Office 2007, Office, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- New hires, datacenter investments evident in Microsoft earnings
- Most of the reports of Microsoft's fiscal Q4 2007 and full year results are focusing on how the $1 billion one-time charge Microsoft took to offset Xbox hardware failures affected the company's bottom line.But there were lots of other meaty bits buried in the Microsoft balance sheets -- including the...
- Tags: Xbox, Windows Live, Windows client, Web 2.0, Vista, Office 2007, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Microsoft offering office 2007 for rent on a monthly basis
- Looks like Microsoft's intial pilots of pay-as-you-go pricing for Office were successful.Microsoft has expanded its Office rental trial in South Africa to include Office 2007. Microsoft will make Office 2007 available for 199 rand ($28.54) for a three-month subscription, according to a Reuters report. First-time users willg et an extra...
- Tags: Office 2007, Office
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Microsoft recruits vendors to integrate Office into business apps
- Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to get more independent software vendors to integrate Office front-ends with their own business applications.There already exist a number of these Office-front-ended applications -- which Microsoft has christened Office Business Applications, or OBAs. Some are commercial applications, like the jointly developed Microsoft-SAP Duet. Others...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2007, Resellers, SharePoint Server, Systems integrators
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Microsoft submits XPS alternative to PDF to ECMA for standardization
- Like it has done with its Open XML specification, Microsoft is pushing its XML Paper Specification XPS alternative to PDF through the standards bodies. And just like the case with Open XML, Microsoft's competitors are lining up to diss Redmond's standards moves.Even Microsoft's critics admit they don't like the "heavy-handed"...
- Tags: Windows client, Vista, Office 2007, Office, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Microsoft grows its Office Live family
- It's been a while since the Office Live team has made any public announcements. But behind the scenes, the unit is expanding its stable of offerings to include a number of Microsoft managed services that curretly aren't thought of as "Office Live."Here's a quick Office Live refresher: Office Live, in...
- Tags: Web conferencing, Web 2.0, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Office 2007, Office, Google, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- SharePoint: Microsoft's Web 2.0 hub
- To Microsoft's Office team, Web 2.0 does not mean a Web-centric version of Microsoft Office, a la Google Apps. It does mean add-ons to SharePoint Server, Microsoft's back-end bundle of server applications (Or Microsoft's "social computing platform," as Microsoft also seemingly is referring to SharePoint these days.)During the Enterprise 2.0...
- Tags: Web 2.0, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- July 1: No more Office 2003 for OEMs
- It's only been six months since Microsoft launched Office 2007 at retail. But as of July 1, 2007, Microsoft won't be making the OEM version of Office 2003 to its PC partners, a k a "OEMs."Eric Ligman, Senior Manager of Small Business Community Engagement with Microsoft, reminded OEMs and customers...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, OEMs, Office, Office 2007, Resellers, System builders, Vista, Windows client, Windows XP
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Microsoft begins shipping two new Dynamics ERP releases
- Microsoft made available for shipping on June 18 two new ERP releases: Dynamics GP 10.0 and Dynamics SL 7.0.In March, Microsoft officials said these new updates would be available starting in June."We're on time and on delivery," said Jon Pratt, a Microsoft Business Division senior director.GP 10.0 includes the role-tailored...
- Tags: .Net Framework, Dynamics ERP, Office, Office 2007, SharePoint Server
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Linspire joins the Microsoft 'IP protection' racket
- Another week, another Linux vendor signs Microsoft's 'IP protection' clause, supposedly saving its customers from potential Microsoft patent-infringement lawsuits.On June 14, Linspire -- the company Microsoft sued for use of the "Lindows" trademark a few years back -- signed a patent agreement with Microsoft. Linspire is the third Linux distro...
- Tags: Search, Office 2007, Office, Novell, Linux, Legal, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- ODF, OOXML...and now UOF?
- UOF, or Uniform Office Format, is a document format created by the Chinese government that has catapulted to prominence, at least in China, due to its use by government and a Chinese population making greater use of computing technology. Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman, has called for the merging of...
- Tags: Office 2007, Office, ODF
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Microsoft and Google seek partners for hosted productivity apps
- There are more similarities than differences in Microsoft's and Google's approaches to building out their partner ecosystems for their respective hosted productivity suites.Google Apps and Office Live are not head-to-head competitors. Google Apps includes hosted mail, calendar, document and spreadsheets. Office Live includes hosted mail, small-business accounting, workspace and (with...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Systems integrators, SharePoint Server, Resellers, Office 2007, Office Live, Office, Network service providers, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Is Microsoft's ODF vote supposed to make amends for its patent attack?
- Microsoft issued a press release on May 18 trumpeting its vote "to support the addition of OpenDocument Format ODF 1.0 to the nonexclusive American National Standards list."Further down in the press release, Microsoft casually mentions that Open XML also is on the list to get the standards nod from the...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Apple, App Compatibility, Legal, Linux, Novell, Office, Office 2007, Office for Mac
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Responding to Mr. Allison on ODF
- Jeremy Allison, in a recent article for ZDNet, complains that Microsoft prevents little girls from turning in their homework. Okay, thats not precisely true. After dropping a few anti-Vista dings, he explained the problems he had trying to open Office XML files in OpenOffice, and used that as reason to...
- Tags: General, ODF, Office, Office 2007, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Microsoft keeps the Open XML fires burning
- Speaking of what works -- and doesnt -- in community building, Microsoft launched a new community Web site on May 8, called OpenXMLCommunity.org. Microsoft is continuing to push its claim that developers and users just cant get enough of Open XML, the new file format that the company has...
- Tags: SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Vista sales strong: Ballmer can breathe a sigh of relief
- The reports are in: Microsoft had a strong Q3 FY 2007. Microsoft attributed solid results to stronger than believed Windows Vista and Office 2007 sales. Xbox sales were way off for the quarter, and the online services business dove further into the red. But Vista and Office 2007 triumphed over...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2007, Vista, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Microsoft Office in the cloud? Don't hold your breath
- Microsoft watchers and competitors keep waiting for Microsoft to admit that it is going to make Microsoft Office available in the cloud. They just cant believe -- even though Microsoft execs continue to say it -- that Microsoft isnt going to roll out a Web-based version of Office. "No...
- Tags: Office 2007, Web 2.0, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Office, Google, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
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