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'Albany': New Microsoft 'home office' in the works?

Microsoft has begun inviting selected testers to be part of a beta of a new, consumer-focused Office-family product, codenamed "Albany." The beta invitation for Albany is cryptic, according to testers who received the invite and asked not to be named. Albany will be aimed at home PC...

Tags: Albany, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft Works, Office Authoring Services, Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-21

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Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties

Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live tiesI take it ...."We have an opportunity to make it much easier for customers to ‘get started' with Windows Live. Our goal should be to have customers log in, type their Live ID, and then they are automatically 'set up' with Live. For...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, details Windows 7-Windows Live ty, details Windows 7-Windows Live, internal memo, Microsoft Windows Live

Discussion threads 2008-04-28

Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Solutions

When one begins implementing a solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services on a new server, he or she may seek comprehensive guidelines to manage the implementation. This paper outlines a methodology for team SharePoint development, customization, and content authoring that aims to accelerate...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites

White papers 2008-01-01

TechNet Webcast: Secure, Simplified Web Publishing Using Internet Information Services 7.0 (Level 300)

The attendee of this webcast will learn how Web publishing is changing for Microsoft Internet Information Services IIS version 7.0. This webcast takes an in-depth look at the new FTP service for IIS 7.0, with demonstrations that showcase new features such as FTP over Secure Sockets Layer SSL, enhanced security,...

Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Web-publishing, Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts 2007-10-16

Office 2003 Research Services Software Development Kit (SDK) 1 (Windows)

With the Microsoft Office 2003 Research Service SDK, you can build information services that provide users with robust information sources and actions that make it possible for users to manage information in powerful waysall from within their Office applications. You can also easily adapt existing information stores to provide content...

Tags: Software Development, Microsoft Office 2003, SDK, Microsoft Windows, Information Service, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-10-02

Google Earth Enterprise extends to browsers

Google is extending its Earth Enterprise into the second dimension, allowing users to view their organization's geospatial data within a browser in 2D. "Organizations, such as an oil exploration company, depend on geospatial data to accomplish work. Many people in an organization need access to geospatial information, so allowing...

Tags: Google, General

Blog posts 2007-07-25

Why HD movie downloads are a big lie

Why HD movie downloads are a big lieYupGeorge, I think your conclusion is probably in general correct but your analysis is flawed and the problem is overstated.You need to address different compression algorithms, and how they can be tuned. For example, I believe you could have a very high...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Consumer electronics, LCD TV, specification, HDTV, HD-movie download, big lie, HD-movie, DVD

Discussion threads 2007-05-31

Are Your People Ready to Create Winning Content?

Organizations have long relied on Microsoft Office as the tool of choice for content creation - a trend that continues even now. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the 2007 Microsoft Office system goes well beyond content authoring by enabling information workers to simplify and streamline the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

White papers 2007-05-01

One Office Suite please. Hold the mayo (I brought my own)

Last week was a very busy week in the discussion threads at ZDNet with some of the most vibrant debates encircling the issue of bloat in shrink-wrapped software: a debate that was touched off by my coverage of Google CEO Eric Schmidts insinuation that Google Apps doesnt compete with Microsoft...

Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, General

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Did you hear the one about how Google Apps doesn't compete with Microsoft (from Google's CEO)? Guffaw.

Theres a side to Googles applications -- hencetoforth referred to as Google Apps -- that most bloggers and critics have never seen or bothered to even try to see Ill explain in a moment. Most of them have simply gone to something like Google Docs the word processor or Google...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, IT Management, Image Gallery, General, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Multimedia publishing comes of age at DEMO 07

Ive just gotten home from DEMO 07 and Ive had a chance to reflect on the event and the companies who came to Palm Desert to spend six minutes on stage explaining why they exist, what problem they solve or opportunity they address, and why potential customers should care about...

Tags: Software, Blogs, DEMO, Demo 07, Ive, Vuvox

Blog posts 2007-02-03

Enterprise 2.0: Ten Predictions for 2007

I explored the rise of Enterprise 2.0 this year in last weeks year in review post, but 2007 will likely prove to be a much more intriguing year for the trend. The demand side of Enterprise 2.0 seems to be driven from a variety of sources that likely include...

Tags: User Generated Content, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Social Software, Global SOA, Enterprise Web 2.0, Products, Network Effects, Orchestration, Collaboration, Governance, Business Process Management, SOA, Customer Self-Service, The Long Tail, Architecture of Participation, SaaS, Collective Intelligence, Hype, Design Patterns, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-12-27

Make XP look like Vista!

Make XP look like Vista!Considering the fact it's a shameless rip off...of Macintosh OS X, how could they have gone wrong? I'm just amazed it took them this long to put the OS X GUI on top of XP. Can you imagine how crappy Windows would look, if not for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Make XP, 9x

Discussion threads 2006-11-24

Google NYC First Look: Top Google engineer talks to NYC software industry

I had the pleasure of chatting this evening with Alan Warren, Google Director of Engineering, the guest of honor at the New York Software Industry Association NYSIA October meeting. I happened to take the seat next to him prior to the program and while he reviewed his succinct outline for...

Tags: Google Inc., NYC, Warren

Blog posts 2006-10-16

Microsoft releases Windows Live Writer - new word processing app

Microsoft has just announced the release of a blog authoring tool called Windows Live Writer - essentially a new word processor app. Windows Live Writer is "a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service." It is available...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live Writer, Microsoft Windows Live

Blog posts 2006-08-13

XIN - a Web OS that wants to be a platform

Recently Mikael Bergkvist has been showing me his "It's basically Windows' entire concept - only online." new web-based OS, called XIN. Mikael first got in touch with me about it back in October last year - and to be honest it's taken me this long to almost grok what he's...

Tags: Mikael Bergkvist, XIN

Blog posts 2006-04-19

Now Johnny CAN program, says Behlendorf

Now Johnny CAN program, says BehlendorfGreat, more amateur-hour code for us pros to fixIt seems like every "new" and "impoved" system out there to reduce the amount of wizardry needed to create code just accelerates the proliferation of severely damaged and broken pieces of software out there. Desktop applications, for...

Tags: Scripting languages, Development tools, Microsoft Excel, mashup

Discussion threads 2006-02-27

And they said 'WebOffice' couldn't be done..

Everytime I write about the forthcoming fat client's fall from grace thanks to a new breed of software-as-a-service SaaS providers, the technologists-in-denial club shows up in the comments section of our blogs with its tar and feathers to give me a lashing. As the comments section on a recent...

Tags: blog

Blog posts 2005-11-09

Hosted Office? Been there, done that, no thanks!

I suppose hosting OpenOffice might be one way of fixing its allegedly dire startup and file-opening performance, but that's probably the only thing you can say in favor of the idea. If you don't believe me, ask Optus. The Australian telecoms and Internet provider just announced it's withdrawing its Online...

Tags: OpenOffice, Hosted Office

Blog posts 2005-10-25

Could ODF be the Net's new, frictionless document DNA?

Could ODF be the Net's new, frictionless document DNA?PronunciationWho better to check with than WikiPedia?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki :[i]A wiki (IPA: /wiːkiː/, "weekee" [1]) is a web application that allows users to add content[/i]Genie's out of the bottle...Awareness of ODF has exploded over the past two weeks. If even a fraction of...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Genie, genie, OpenDocument Format, DNA

Discussion threads 2005-10-12