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- What else does Microsoft have up its document-management sleeve?
- SharePoint Server is Microsoft's document-management solution. But it sounds like the Softies are planning to add more offerings to their stable oManagef document-management wares, starting later this year. At a recent presentation in France, Microsoft officials made a passing reference to "S2," an enterprise-content-management portal that Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., SharePoint Server, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- 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
- 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 to its hosting partners: Get ready. Here we come
- At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver this week, Microsoft officials are trying to walk the tightrope when it comes to explaining Microsoft's plan to get into the managed services business in a major way.Microsoft officials have made no bones about the fact that Microsoft is planning to offer a...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Systems integrators, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- 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
- Microsoft headed for a services show-down with its hosting partners
- Microsoft is on a collision course with its hosting partners.During the past couple of weeks, Microsoft officials have started touting publicly the handful of hosted managed services that Microsoft is selling directly to customers. This week at the NXTcomm 2007 show in Chicago, Microsoft was out hawking its"Microsoft Solution for...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, OEMs, Resellers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, System builders, Systems integrators, Telecommunications
- 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
- Microsoft readies new managed services
- A few months back, I speculated on how/when Microsoft would field hosted SharePoint Server, hosted Exchange Serverand hosted Live Communications Server products. My best guess was Microsoft would launch Microsoft-managed versions of these services in the late 2007 or later timeframe.I was surprised to learn today at Microsoft's TechEd 2007...
- Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, Virtualization, TechEd 2007, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Exchange Server, CRM Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Microsoft offers $25,000 for best Office-Oracle mash-up
- At next weeks Collaborate 2007 Oracle users group conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft is rolling out a contest to encourage developers to integrate Office 2007 with Oracle applications. The winner of the "O 2 OBA Challenge" gets $25,000 to implement the resulting mash-up. (Microsoft also is convening at...
- Tags: Office 2007, Office, Dynamics ERP, Database, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Dynamics CRM
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- SharePoint: The next big 'operating system' from Microsoft?
- Many industry pundits have speculated as to whether Windows Vista is the last big-bang release of Windows. (The answer, as Microsoft officials have repeatedly stated, is no.) I think theyre asking the wrong question. Instead, why not ask whether Windows will be the center of Microsofts universe going...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM, CRM Live
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Microsoft to slow the pace of Dynamics ERP releases
- While almost every Microsoft division is seeking ways to pick up the pace and turn out new product releases more rapidly, the Microsoft Business Solutions MBS unit is preparing to do the opposite by slowing the rate at which its rolling out new ERP releases. For the past couple...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., ERP, ERP release, Microsofts, Microsoft Business Solution
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Microsoft shows off its future business-app user interfaces
- For more than a year, Microsoft officials have been talking up the notion of "Office-centric" and "role-based" interfaces as the next big thing for its ERP and CRM wares. At the Convergence conference for its Dynamics customers and partners in San Diego this week, Microsoft showed off working examples...
- Tags: CRM Live, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Corporate strategy, Office
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Excel Services as a Google Apps competitor? Hmm
- TechCrunch is trumpeting as "confirmed" scoop" the fact that Microsoft is building a Google Apps competitor that has as an anchor "Excel Services." Im more than a little skeptical of this positioning, even though a Microsoft developer characterized Excel Services as a product that "will probably be competing with...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Groupware, TechCrunch, Google Inc., Microsoft Excel, Excel Services, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Office Communications Server 2007 to hit public beta later this month
- Office Communications Server 2007 will hit public beta some time later this month, according to the Softies. OCS 2007 is Microsofts combined instant-messaging/VOIP/audio-video conferencing server, and the successor to Microsofts Live Communications Server product. OCS 2007 doesnt require Exchange Server to work, but Microsoft officials emphasizes the unified-messaging synergies...
- Tags: Office, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Exchange Server
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Whatever happened to Microsoft LOBi?
- Hold onto your geek party hats. This is one of those confusing Microsoft-roadmap posts full of obscure acronyms that hopefully is worth wading through. LOBi Line of Business Interoperability: A toolkit? A service? Both? Neither? Whatever LOBi is/was, it was supposed to be key to Microsofts quest to make...
- Tags: Dynamics CRM, Dynamics ERP, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Office, Development tools
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
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