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Why I liked SAP's TechEd Community Day

SAP's Community Day, with ESME as its symbolic poster child, reminds us that collaborative and supportive networks of participation can create successful IT projects. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: TechEd, SAP AG, Community Day, Software Development, Blogging, Strategy, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Internet, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-09-09

The week ahead: Demo, TechCrunch 50, Apple; SAP TechEd; CTIA

Programming note: We have a busy week ahead and it's truly a demo fiesta. Here's a look at the moving parts. Sam Diaz will be covering Demo; Andrew Mager will be covering TechCrunch 50 which is trying to kill Demo; I'll be at SAP TechEd...

Tags: TechCrunch, TechEd, SAP AG, Apple Inc., CTIA, Programming, Cellular Phones, Development Tools, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Gates to look back, ahead on tools in his last Microsoft keynote

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will continue his long goodbye on June 3 with his last public tradeshow keynote at the company's TechEd Developers Conference in Orlando. (Gates will no longer be engaged in day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft as of July 1, so that he can work more...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, TechEd, Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, Tool, Modeling, Parallel Extensions, Research & Development, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Microsoft TechEd: Get a signed copy of Microsoft 2.0

I'll be covering the developer-focused week of Microsoft's TechEd Conference in Orlando this week. If you want to pick up a signed copy of my new book, Microsoft 2.0, come by the bookstore sponsord by Digital Guru, at the Convention Center. (Or just come by and say...

Tags: TechEd, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd

Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd"folks...." what?How original. Yet another little icon to go with the [b]OTHER[/b] 37 little icons! How ever did they manage to get to market so quickly? Why, 2006 was barely two years (and 37 little icons) ago....It's just hard to describe...

Tags: little icon, social bookmarking, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd

One of the new technologies that Microsoft is planning to showcase at its upcoming TechEd U.S. conference is its social-bookmarking tool. John Martin, Lead Evangelist for Server & Tools Online -- as he describes it, "the group that manages the global MSDN, TechNet, Codeplex, and Expression...

Tags: TechEd, Social Bookmarking, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-26

SAP's vox populi

Marilyn Pratt who runs SAP's business process expert section on the SAP developer network sent me a link to a video initiative SAP is trying out for its upcoming TechEd event in Las Vegas: We know that our SAP Community Network has very passionate members....

Tags: TechEd, SAP AG, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-13

Up Next: On Redmond-watchers' radar screens

Here are a few Microsoft-related conferences and confabs slated for this fall that might be of interest to Redmond watchers out there. The biggies are TechEd Developers and TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona. But there are some more off-the-beaten-path events to watch, as well. ...

Tags: TechEd

Blog posts 2006-09-29

Photos: The view from TechEd 2006

Sessions at Microsoft's TechEd are filled to capacity. But the World Cup draws crowds as well.

Tags: photograph, Microsoft Corp., TechEd, World Cup

Image galleries 2006-06-13

Additional Resources

Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance

What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...

Tags: Pricing, Sales force management, Marketing research, Strategy, Chatter, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Conference energy levels

Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-20

Salesforce Chatter: what a clanger!

Running Cover-it-Live has produced some interesting commentary about this morning's announcement of Salesforce.com Chatter. Best summed up by Nenshad Bardoliwalla: The length of this keynote has turned "Chatter" into "Splatter" IMHO A three and a quarter hour keynote marathon, laced with the kind of hyperbole we've come to...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Running Cover-it-Live, Saesforce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Windows Server 2008 R2 finally gets its day in the sun

Microsoft officials highlighted the company's wave of enterprise server products during the kick-off keynotes at the company's TechEd Europe conference on November 9. Among this wave is Windows Server 2008 R2 (WS2008R2) -- the server complement to Windows 7, which has a lot of unsung features that could be of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Enterprise Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"

RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...

Tags: Sales strategy, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, stock split, Win7, recession, Steve Ballmer, sales, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Free Microsoft open-source content management app to get its debut next week

Very interestingStrange - Ballmer was all excited about how the SharePoint 2010 team focused on internet facing capabilities. Why play with Orchard if you can get all the features CMS and more with a hosted version of SP2010 at a fairly cheap investment?I guess for small businesses who just...

Tags: Content management, open source, Microsoft Corp., open-source content management app, Free Microsoft open-source content management app, FREE Microsoft, open-source content management, Microsoft Windows NT, content management system, OSS Projects

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Free Microsoft open-source content management app to get its debut next week

Microsoft is working on a set of free open-source content-management application and set of reusable components for it that is codenamed "Orchard." The company is slated to share details about its plans for Orchard at TechEd Europe next week. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, Content Management, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-04

News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Microsoft to show Office Mobile 2010 at TechEd Europe

Microsoft officials have shared details about two of the three different versions of Office 2010 that are in development: The Office 2010 client and the Office Web Apps. Next week, at the TechEd Europe conference in Berlin, they finally are slated to show and tell more about the third: Office...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

SOMESSO: social computing meets financial services

Next Monday and Tuesday I will be attending SOMESSO in Zurich. This is an event that covers the intersection between the financial services industry and social computing. According to the blurbs: Day 1 is reserved for corporate workshops for Finance and Banking professionals Finance Masterclass on the...

Tags: Financial Service, Social Computing, Fidor, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-30